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Hello. I've been mentally struggling with hair loss since December 2016. It all basically started in December when I got a comment on one of my pictures online of someone asking about my weird hairline, that exact picture I uploaded is the 1st picture im adding to the thread. He could kinda tell by the hairline and ever since I've been struggling with this mentally everyday checking my scalp and hairline all the time. The first picture I ever took of my hair when I was worried was when it was wet, combed back (2nd picture). And ever since - I've noticed changes in my hair, it feels much thinner when I run my hands through it, and the horrifying sight of the scalp when it's soaking wet.(3rd-5th picture) which indicates thinning, although thats under high light conditions, soaking wet with flash on and putting the hair to the sides so I'm basically trying to make it look as bad as possible to show the scalp. When my hair is dry however it looks and feels perfectly fine (6th to 7th picture), you cannot see the scalp at all.
I've asked friends and my father to feel my hair and they all say it feels and looks perfectly normal. I've posted on this forum a couple months ago - like 3 times and all the times I got different responses from people. Which just has me confused.
People in my family are bald or balding but none of them started losing hair until after their 30s.
I've always had a dumb looking hairline which hasn't changed since december. And I've always had very fine/thin hair compared to certain people.
During november-february I had went through some enormous stress in life, lost family members and my girlfriend, putting me in a severe depression where I just sat at home all day doing nothing, stopped working out and started eating bad food, during that time I noticed tons of shedding, where I could find about 30 hairs after a shower in my hands however that shedding completely stopped in march-april And I never shed that much anymore. I had also very recently started fixing my hair for the first time, started using hair products and cut my hair short after wearing hats and having long hair all life.
With that said I've basically had 2 different theories fighting in my head for months about if I'm losing hair or not
My first theory is that I lost hair because of the severe depression and stress during those months which I read is possible and that got me thinking about male pattern baldness which I've gotten so obsessed about that I might just be seeing things worse than it actually is, which seems reasonable because some days I think my hair looks awesome, and some days it's awful. At least worse than my father and friends thinks who I've asked about my hair. This also seems reasonable since I was specifically shedding hair during the time I was stressed. This is what my father that's gone through male pattern baldness thinks.
My second theory is that I actually started legit balding at a really weird timing where I just recently started fixing my hair, shampooing it way more often than before (about 5 times a week, although I stopped doing that in April), when I had just gotten into a severe depression state, way before anyone else in my family started balding, when I stopped working out and much more. And that im in some kind of denial or something
If you need more pictures of certain angles I'm more than happy to add them, I just want this to be over with I'm done stressing about this for so long. Also I'm sorry about my bad English.
Added 2 more pictures of my kind of wet hair right now, showered an hour ago
Responses are greatly appreciated
I've asked friends and my father to feel my hair and they all say it feels and looks perfectly normal. I've posted on this forum a couple months ago - like 3 times and all the times I got different responses from people. Which just has me confused.
People in my family are bald or balding but none of them started losing hair until after their 30s.
I've always had a dumb looking hairline which hasn't changed since december. And I've always had very fine/thin hair compared to certain people.
During november-february I had went through some enormous stress in life, lost family members and my girlfriend, putting me in a severe depression where I just sat at home all day doing nothing, stopped working out and started eating bad food, during that time I noticed tons of shedding, where I could find about 30 hairs after a shower in my hands however that shedding completely stopped in march-april And I never shed that much anymore. I had also very recently started fixing my hair for the first time, started using hair products and cut my hair short after wearing hats and having long hair all life.
With that said I've basically had 2 different theories fighting in my head for months about if I'm losing hair or not
My first theory is that I lost hair because of the severe depression and stress during those months which I read is possible and that got me thinking about male pattern baldness which I've gotten so obsessed about that I might just be seeing things worse than it actually is, which seems reasonable because some days I think my hair looks awesome, and some days it's awful. At least worse than my father and friends thinks who I've asked about my hair. This also seems reasonable since I was specifically shedding hair during the time I was stressed. This is what my father that's gone through male pattern baldness thinks.
My second theory is that I actually started legit balding at a really weird timing where I just recently started fixing my hair, shampooing it way more often than before (about 5 times a week, although I stopped doing that in April), when I had just gotten into a severe depression state, way before anyone else in my family started balding, when I stopped working out and much more. And that im in some kind of denial or something
If you need more pictures of certain angles I'm more than happy to add them, I just want this to be over with I'm done stressing about this for so long. Also I'm sorry about my bad English.
Added 2 more pictures of my kind of wet hair right now, showered an hour ago
Responses are greatly appreciated
