What Is Worse Than Balding Self Esteem Wise?

[Stanx22]

Hairlosstalk is our sanctuary. Even disney told us as kids that without looks we're fucked. The first part of this disney song is for us ugly, bald people.

That's why i don't ever want to leave my house. It was a great movie tho, and exposed the myth of personality. Quasimodo had great personality, but it didn't do sh*t for him. The beautiful woman still chose the tall, handsome man over him. She wasn't even his friend, Frollo was right when he said that she was playing him. As soon as she found out he wasn't wearing a mask, she was horrified of what she was looking at, exactly like real life.

 

[Baldingat188]

Iq is a test score ranked among the people who took the test. This group ideally represents your nation as a whole. Your mood and test taking skills can affect your score. There's also different kinds of intelligence that IQ tests can't test for or score differently with. Like a test could weigh logical reasoning higher than verbal, or vice versa. And creativity is one kind of intelligence not measured by them.

However it does have significance considering its correlations between many important life outcomes. Like income, education, accomplishments and longevity. Many high IQ (or equivalent high test score) studies have many of the participants achieve huge things during its course. They became authors, scientists, inventors and Nobel winners.

http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-r...45-year-study-of-super-smart-children-1.20537

"With the first SMPY recruits now at the peak of their careers1, what has become clear is how much the precociously gifted outweigh the rest of society in their influence. Many of the innovators who are advancing science, technology and culture are those whose unique cognitive abilities were identified and supported in their early years through enrichment programmes such as Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth — which Stanley began in the 1980s as an adjunct to SMPY. At the start, both the study and the centre were open to young adolescents who scored in the top 1% on university entrance exams. Pioneering mathematicians Terence Tao and Lenhard Ng were one-percenters, as were Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and musician Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga), who all passed through the Hopkins centre.

“Whether we like it or not, these people really do control our society,” says Jonathan Wai, a psychologist at the Duke University Talent Identification Program in Durham, North Carolina, which collaborates with the Hopkins centre. Wai combined data from 11 prospective and retrospective longitudinal studies2, including SMPY, to demonstrate the correlation between early cognitive ability and adult achievement. “The kids who test in the top 1% tend to become our eminent scientists and academics, our Fortune 500 CEOs and federal judges, senators and billionaires,” he says."

It's not that you need to be successful to be smart it's much closer to being that you usually need to be smart to be successful

What if your not smart and going bald .... damn. I didn't get good genetics physical or mental

 

[Exodus2011]

It makes finding a solution to your hair loss problem harder for example, and you'll be more likely to make mistakes like a botched FUT hair transplant with a unknown surgeon.

I didn't take my homework before getting my FUE lightly, for me, it was like working on a thesis for one year and half. You need to be smart enough to be able to do that.

Once you've done your research, pulling the trigger is an act of faith, and ultimately, you do it because you absolutely have to. Because remaining bald is not an option.

Either that, or you're going to overthink about whether you should go on hair loss medication because you don't understand the significance of the finasteride/minoxidil safety trials and would rather base your decision on random internet anecdotes full of fear-mongering.

I think that's why hair loss hurts smart people more, because in the end, they know the extent of the damage it's doing to them.

So make no mistake man, since you are already on this forum, you are smart. Almost all of us here are to an extent. You think everyone is capable of articulating our thoughts, our fears, our hopes about the disease of the spirit that is hair loss?

How many of us on this forum are construction workers or waiters (not that there's anything wrong with that)? If you ask most people on here, they'll tell you that they have a university degree and work in a relatively intellectually demanding field.

And here's a partial answer to what a few members have pointed out on this forum (I think it was mainly @cocohot ?): "How come there are so few people who come here to express their angst about hair loss and how it's damaging their lives?"

It's because first, there aren't that many people that are smart enough to realize that hair loss is actually a problem and that it's having a negative effect on their lives, and second, even if they knew, they wouldn't be verbally smart enough to be able to write it down on this forum in a coherent manner.

Even the safety trials show that finasteride has a chance of causing sexual side effects. Small, but it's there.

Also I'd bet there's a correlation between being smarter and being red pilled

Also I was thinking about my dads dating complaints. He goes on and on about how women want rich men, what do you take of that Fred?

He's been bald since mid 20s

Is it a sign that the only women that go for mediocre looking bald men like him are gold diggers?

 

[Exodus2011]

What if your not smart and going bald .... damn. I didn't get good genetics physical or mental

Idk exactly how smart you are, but I'm sure you aren't dumb based on your posts lol

 

[CopeForLife]

I have a regrow on a NW2 hairline (5 new semi-thick hair)

just lol @ finasteride effectiveness to possible side effects ratio

the entire DHT wiping to save tiny hair follicles with anecdotical chances

what a f*****g joke

 

[CopeForLife]

I have a regrow on a NW2 hairline (5 new semi-thick hair)

just lol @ finasteride effectiveness to possible side effects ratio

the entire DHT wiping to save tiny hair follicles with anecdotical chances

what a f*****g joke

How one can explain normies/fullhead all the retardedness?

Having a prostate shrinking drug for 50+yo men every day for life in my 20-s to save a few hair follicles

Imagine yourself as a fullheads and some baldcel with wispy hair is talking you that he "fights" hairloss with aforementioned method

 

[Rudiger]

Most people don't have aggressive hair loss and it could take them 10 years to go from NW2 to NW3.

I agree with the post, but this is the operative part, the target market, which you probably already realise. If it works for the majority of hair loss users and the most unfortunate are rare, then as a profit they of course aren't relevant.

If we're talking about how to actually cure hair loss, then finasteride is obviously a bad model to follow.

 

[JeanLucBB]

I also believe that finasteride's effectiveness is way overrated.

Most people don't have aggressive hair loss and it could take them 10 years to go from NW2 to NW3.

So this is the kind of people they test finasteride on and instead of 10 years it takes them 3 more years to go from NW2 to NW3.

Testing finasteride on young men with aggressive hair loss, that's the real deal.

And you often see that it's a different story. They quickly go bald despite their use of finasteride.

The twin brother studies show this, after 10 years, one brother remained NW2 and the other is just a slightly diffuse NW3.

Well, that's not very impressive. A lot of potential side effects while you could just skip it and have a small hair transplant once it gets too bad.

I was on my way to a norwood 5 by 23 until I got on finasteride. Grew back a hole in the crown, strongly thickened the midscalp and stopped my shedding entirely. I'm also only on 0.25mg.

It definitely works for some, if not most. All of the doctors I talked to said it worked for 9/10 at halting loss and the amount that came back to complain of sides was negligible. I don't see how anyone can argue with the studies which say for 80% of people they will maintain their baseline for at least five years. One of the doctors actually told me they think younger guys have a higher chance of regrowth because the hairs haven't been miniaturised as long and that reflects their experience with who they have prescribed it to.

If anything finasteride is underrated.

 

[blackg]

Actual psychologists who base their practice on solid science will have this view.

Self-esteem cannot be measured objectively, unlike IQ and physical attractiveness for example.

Good mental health professional all suggested that I have a hair transplants, bad ones were like "just sweep it under the rug! It's only a problem if you think it's a problem".

Because you know, that's surely the greatest thing to do for your mental well-being.

"Pretend it's not there, don't talk about it, you'll see, you'll feel better!"

Then you apply that advice, and everything seems peachy for a few days, until a group of people in a bar zero in on your bald head and start singing "HE HAS NO HAIR!", humiliating you in front of the whole world.

"What do I do Doctor, do I go on pretending the problem is not there!" These therapists should be ashamed of themselves.

I agree with you on this. You can not just pretend a problem doesn't exist.

 

[CaptainForehead]

i didn't study.

Hmm......................

 

[Exodus2011]

Hmm......................

Lol I was in 7th grade give it a rest

 

[CaptainForehead]

Women do not only want rich men obviously, they want men who are good enough overall, looks, status, personality (RIP old WhitePolarBear) etc.

LOL

 

[sunchyme1]

i would say being xander right now is probably worse than being bald

https://lookism.net/Thread-Im-a-forward-optimistic-thinker

 

[OldnBald]

as someone who has diagnosed anxiety, probable OCD, likely personality disorder, and is considering getting on disability because im too mentally fucked up to get a job NO. just NO. lel. just LOL at an invisible issue that comes down to thinking irrationally being as bad as ACTUALLY BECOMING INFERIOR. and you GET NO SYMPATHY AND EVERYONE LAUGHS AT YOU AND STEREOTYPES YOU.

i mean if you arent bluepilled to hell and back baldness will greatly exacerbate your mental issues anyways

the do suck f*****g *** to be fair, but NOWHERE near as bad as baldness

As someone who's dealt with his fair (lions) share of issues, I have to disagree. Living in peace trumps having hair on top of my head, anyday.

 

[Exodus2011]

As someone who's dealt with his fair (lions) share of issues, I have to disagree. Living in peace trumps having hair on top of my head, anyday.

If you're realistic about baldness, then it's hard to live in peace.

 

[DoctorHouse]

i would say being xander right now is probably worse than being bald

https://lookism.net/Thread-Im-a-forward-optimistic-thinker

I think he gave up on this forum. Not enough guys like him.

 

[sunchyme1]

I think he gave up on this forum. Not enough guys like him.

he'll be back mate

the very first day his ban gets lifted he'll be back

 

[OldnBald]

If you're realistic about baldness, then it's hard to live in peace.

And therein lies the impasse. Is it the hair that's causing your issues, or are you making a mountain out of the hair issue because of your mental issues. And if it wasn't hair that's the obsession, might it be something else.

I would say in a lot of cases it's the latter. Now I'm not saying it doesn't suck, because it does, and all the tropes that comes with it. But I think a lot of us might exacerbate the issue, just a touch haha, because of our own cognitive dispositions.

 

[Exodus2011]

And therein lies the impasse. Is it the hair that's causing your issues, or are you making a mountain out of the hair issue because of your mental issues. And if it wasn't hair that's the obsession, might it be something else.

I would say in a lot of cases it's the latter. Now I'm not saying it doesn't suck, because it does, and all the tropes that comes with it. But I think a lot of us might exacerbate the issue, just a touch haha, because of our own cognitive dispositions.

Honestly a lot of us here are probably a but narcissistic. We can't stand how baldness has made us inferior. Problem is its a very legitimate issue because this time we aren't just imagining the inferiority

Also I seriously doubt it would be something else as baldness is pretty unique as a huge aesthetic handicap, especially for unmanly men like myself

I was relatively secure before this sh*t, or at least getting there. I was realizing I had no rational reason to have low self esteem. I was short and scrawny but that wasn't the end of the world. Its just baldness that pushes me into subhuman territory

 

[DoctorHouse]

he'll be back mate

the very first day his ban gets lifted he'll be back

Why did he get banned?