I know this is going to sound weird, but my hair loss really started only 1 or 2 weeks after I began obsessively taking pictures of my temples, crown, etc and becoming anxious over it back in mid January. Back then I seriously panicked thinking I had male pattern baldness as a teen, leading me to r/tressless and by now more than 1000 pictures of my hair in less than a year. In retrospect, it looked perfectly fine. It then suddenly became much thinner 1 or 2 weeks, around 10 days afterwards (a lot of density practically disappeared overnight, my hair became brittle, lost its color, etc but no real miniaturization since), and since then my hairline, primarily the temples, has been steadily receding (not as bad as the thinning) and my hair turned thinner, like a self-fulfilling prophecy. So basically placebo.
male pattern baldness is certainly genetic, but do factors like stress (not only due to hair loss) trigger it to start occuring earlier?
Unrelated question: In the case of thinning caused by stress if that's a thing, does only the top lose density/thin?
male pattern baldness is certainly genetic, but do factors like stress (not only due to hair loss) trigger it to start occuring earlier?
Unrelated question: In the case of thinning caused by stress if that's a thing, does only the top lose density/thin?
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