Going bald when you're only in your teens is plain crippling. I've been going bald since I was 16 years of age and currently my hair is in its worse shape. I can live my life normally and be happy as usual, though I need to admit, my male pattern baldness drives me completely insane sometimes. I am thinning in a Norwood 6 pattern and I also suffer from retrograde alopecia, which is thinning behind the ears and on the nape. It also drives me insane to only be in my early twenty's and have the hair of an old man, and I'm also suffering from premature greying.
Guys like you and I who start balding in their early/mid teens tend to have the genetics super aggressive. I've been fighting hard against my male pattern baldness and for the first time at this point, I am starting to come to the conclusion that I don't think I can beat my hair loss, my genetics are just too strong. The best current treatments are just too weak for us. There needs to be a cure, treatments are not optimal. And why are treatments not optimal? Because treatments don't work well for everyone, they don't fully restore hair, and they can actually cause serious side effects. Again, there needs to be a cure. Living with inflammation, irritation, and itching of my scalp every single day along with watching my hair deteriorate is no good quality of life at all.