They seem to be missing.
Hype men taking a summer vacation too.
So much time wasted on this sub forum, learning these ridiculous names - as familiar to me now as family members: Tsuji, Histogen, Follica, Replicel ...
And such a colossal waste of energy and thought. Each one more of a joke than the next.
Tumbleweeds blowing through the forum as the scams and hypes disappear like the mirages they always were.
Soon time to ramp up the hype for 2019. Like hairs through the hour glass, these are the days of our lives. Time - a waste of life.
You're probably going to be bald.
Accept that now - there is no harm in it. That is, it is not a bad assumption to make. The cards are stacked high against us.
Treatments may come out, but that's up to them.
Nobody owes anyone else the cure.
Hype men don't create anything. They have no power over the future. None. Nothing. They're just loud. They're not responsible for anything at all.
The choice to spend time on this forum was always yours. It's still yours. Every moment you stay here is your own doing.
Staying here was a choice. Balding wasn't a choice. The cure isn't a choice because it doesn't exist, and your choices or the choices of anyone on this board have no influence whatsoever on whether or not there will be a cure.
Your depression may be understandable, but you're twisting the knife on yourself, friend.
There was never a secret cure treasured within the depths of this esoteric forum. Nobody here has anything, nobody owes anyone here any good news, and nobody here is dangling juicy information just out of reach.
We're all just a bunch of people complaining about losing hair. That's all there has been, since 2005. Don't get too excited by any hype, as though it in and of itself represents progress, and as though progress was "promised." We get what we get. That's the end of it, really.
Any additional feelings you may have of this company or that being obliged to do something or a cure being an obligation that scientists or other societal leaders have to undertake is simply either a misunderstanding of others' "hype" - that is confident "bets" that people seem to place, as if they were based on some merit, whereas the reality of the situation is that it is simply the blind leading the blind because they are all guessing the future with incomplete information. Or it is your own projection. Your anguish at the situation and acute awareness of how much "time" you have remaining just makes you extremely desperate for a cure. Nobody will simply appear to save you. Especially when you already know that nobody has an obligation to save you in particular. And so it makes no sense that their progress would conform to your timeline.
It's better to make peace at a realistic level that you are indeed a bald man. You are not a full headed man losing his hair. You are a bald man who had his hair temporarily, just as every other bald man once had his hair. If you can let go of the desperation to avoid the unthinkable, I think you will see that the situation that we are in is practically the same as when you joined the forum:
some scientists and companies are working on it and we will have to see, but there are never any guarantees.
The only thing that really changed is that you have lost more hair, perhaps naively assumed that everything would be solved before it's over for you and grew to interpret this forum's insider knowledge as a set of practical predictions or expectations of the future.
If this were real life, I'd buy you a beer. It is some heavy sh*t for sure. But you're not going about it with a clear head, man, while you are so fearful of balding and so desperate to avoid it. You want to run, but there's nowhere to go. And so you post here, suggesting that there may be someone else or something else that you can comfortably blame for your predicament - a predicament that you never chose, that you despise, and one that has no personal connection to the people you are relying on to discover a solution or provide useful information.
