Thinning Hair Is The Worst Thing Imaginable.

[Stanx22]

I have minor recession, but my thinning hair is f*****g awful. I'm following the same pattern as my father, which simply consists of having thinning hair in the front, which gets worse everyday until you reach NW7. I would rather be receding normally like everyone else, but diffuse thinning makes things 10 times worse. I'll look like a pedophile in less than 2 years because of my thinning hair. I can't even style it properly.

 

[Bklyn_23]

I feel you man. I have diffuse thinning along with retrograde alopecia (sides and lower back of hair affected), recession, and vertex balding. It is impossible for me to wear any hair style without concealers to help thicken the hair.

 

[ManinBlack]

Yeah it is shitty. If you retain density you can at least hope to "pull off" a receded/"mature" look but diffuse thinning just looks like sh*t once it progresses to far and you can't style your hair, you can only combover. Also it seems to progress faster to NW8 than other types of balding.

 

[CopeForLife]

I have minor recession, but my thinning hair is f*****g awful. I'm following the same pattern as my father, which simply consists of having thinning hair in the front, which gets worse everyday until you reach NW7. I would rather be receding normally like everyone else, but diffuse thinning makes things 10 times worse. I'll look like a pedophile in less than 2 years because of my thinning hair. I can't even style it properly.

make a recent photo

 

[CaptainForehead]

Thinning Hair Is The Worst Thing Imaginable.

I hope you're lucky and it stays the worst thing imaginable for you.

 

[CopeForLife]

I'm following the same pattern as my father NW7.

the father should be proud!

 

[Stanx22]

Thinning Hair Is The Worst Thing Imaginable.

I hope you're lucky and it stays the worst thing imaginable for you.

Everyone who points out my baldness, points it out because of my thinning hair. NW2 is hard to be spotted for non-Norwood spotters.

 

[Stanx22]

the father should be proud!

He doesn't care lol.

 

[Stanx22]

make a recent photo

OK, once i get my new mobile phone, i'll take some new photos.

 

[JohnsonDDG]

Agreed - I didn't mind my receded temples all that much but now I have some thinning on top as well it doesn't feel so great.

I think receded temples up to around Norwood 3 looks distinguished but thinning hair just makes you look ill.

Just receding:



Thinning hair:



If you have density then most people can get away with a nw3 hairline, but if you have thin hair than a nw1 wont save you.

 

[JohnsonDDG]

Agreed - I didn't mind my receded temples all that much but now I have some thinning on top as well it doesn't feel so great.

I think receded temples up to around Norwood 3 looks distinguished but thinning hair just makes you look ill.

If you have density then most people can get away with a nw3 hairline, but if you have thin hair than a nw1 wont save you.

 

[OldnBald]

Thinning Hair Is The Worst Thing Imaginable.

I hope you're lucky and it stays the worst thing imaginable for you.

I second that.

 

[Balding23]

I've been struggling recently with how gross I look because my hair is thinning (and receeding) and I can't shave because my head is weird looking... I'm honestly considering looking into some kind of surgery.

 

[Rudiger]

Thinning is worse than aggressive temple recession? Well just shave it then! Even as a ridiculous horse shoe, because that's the reality for NW4+ who don't even have that illusion of hair under some lighting, its all just fucked.

Anyway I will talk about why diffusing has a specific way of driving you nuts, but without comparing it to anything else as I find it ridiculous to say it's "worse" than being completely bald.

I think diffusing possibly gives you a better chance of developing BDD even past youth and into your 30s. As a result of never knowing where you stand, some days feeling totally bald, other days actually thinking you're somewhat of a full head. Some pictures looking completely passable as a guy with hair, other pictures under harsh lighting or sunlight where it's like seriously, where the f*** did that hair go?! Like there's literally nothing. What do people view me as?!

Of course it's normally an overreaction and that's the result of nervous BDD freak out where you distort your own reality. I've seen pictures of me months later where it's clear I'm diffuse under harsh lighting, but my initial view of that picture was that there was literally no hair at all, and I'd freak out and click away from that picture.

Don't get me wrong, as sh*t as it can be in distorting your own perception of yourself and how others perceive you, I'm taking good/bad days and good/bad feelings over a consistently sh*t "it's over" feeling.

Like I say, if being diffuse was really that much of a mind f*** I'd have shaved it by now.

The fact that this option is available to a diffused guy and he's not choosing it, but still makes the claim it's "worse" than full blown temple recession to total baldness, that simply makes no sense.