Sum up how hair loss has affected you...post your stories and vent. I want to know how other people feel.
For me, hair loss has made me lose all confidence in myself. I feel like I am not normal and have low value as a result. I regularly receive negative comments about my appearance compared to none before i started losing hair. I have to listen to women all day long in work discuss the 'hot guys' from their gossip magazines/tv shows etc knowing that no matter what I do I could never be viewed in that way simply because I am going bald. The other day I depressed myself by looking at those 'top 100 sexiest lists' to realise that not a single one of those men had even an inch of hair loss. On TV it is the same. I can't go to the gym to fix it and medication gave me dreadful side effects so I have given up on trying to fight my genetics. A bald or balding man has to try to compensate in other areas just to be viewed as relatively attractive - listening to women in work talk about how guys they knew are now ugly because they started going bald kills me. Still being in my early 20's I feel like I am too young for this. I am angry and frustrated all the time and scared to look in the mirror but I do it all the time anyway just to see how much worse things have become. When I shaved my head to try to embrace hair loss then I just got comments like I was some sort of freak 'a cancer patient, an auschwitz survivor etc' - the first time I did so I smiled at a woman to gauge her reaction...she turned to her friend laughing and patted her head. I am very lonely and would love a girlfriend but know feel terrible all the time and stuggle to imagine any woman finding me attractive when every guy around seems to have normal hair...like the men in the media. I can't enjoy TV anymore...it just makes me depressed seeing that there are barely any men who are balding that women like. I tried online dating and gave up when I saw women specifically ask balding men not to contact them. Hair loss for me has taken away everything that I was. The only way I can cope now is by trying to be a new me - someone who acts the way that I look.
For me, hair loss has made me lose all confidence in myself. I feel like I am not normal and have low value as a result. I regularly receive negative comments about my appearance compared to none before i started losing hair. I have to listen to women all day long in work discuss the 'hot guys' from their gossip magazines/tv shows etc knowing that no matter what I do I could never be viewed in that way simply because I am going bald. The other day I depressed myself by looking at those 'top 100 sexiest lists' to realise that not a single one of those men had even an inch of hair loss. On TV it is the same. I can't go to the gym to fix it and medication gave me dreadful side effects so I have given up on trying to fight my genetics. A bald or balding man has to try to compensate in other areas just to be viewed as relatively attractive - listening to women in work talk about how guys they knew are now ugly because they started going bald kills me. Still being in my early 20's I feel like I am too young for this. I am angry and frustrated all the time and scared to look in the mirror but I do it all the time anyway just to see how much worse things have become. When I shaved my head to try to embrace hair loss then I just got comments like I was some sort of freak 'a cancer patient, an auschwitz survivor etc' - the first time I did so I smiled at a woman to gauge her reaction...she turned to her friend laughing and patted her head. I am very lonely and would love a girlfriend but know feel terrible all the time and stuggle to imagine any woman finding me attractive when every guy around seems to have normal hair...like the men in the media. I can't enjoy TV anymore...it just makes me depressed seeing that there are barely any men who are balding that women like. I tried online dating and gave up when I saw women specifically ask balding men not to contact them. Hair loss for me has taken away everything that I was. The only way I can cope now is by trying to be a new me - someone who acts the way that I look.