When your parents have no photos of you up in their house?

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What are they trying to tell you - is it a subtle way of telling you you’re no oil painting? :wink:

I live with my parents. In our house we have loads of pictures up of my sister. Who has lovely blonde hair, not to mention the non-self-conscious look on her face in each picture. Saying that, there isn’t one picture of me.

Put the violins away please.

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There used to be pictures of me up when I had the important framed face we all talk about. At the moment, face on pictures of me aren’t the prettiest. Basically because of the recession and the effect it has had on my appearance.

Combine that with the fact I cannot smile on demand to save my life these days. It's like - as much as I would love to master the look of hair loss and be done with it, I cannot. The thought of hair loss is always on my mind.

An uncomfortable expression is hardly going to be show-cased is it?

The devastating thing is, if I didn’t have recession it would make a significant change to my appearance on the scale of remarkable. That's why this just kills me.

I can imagine the situation actually. If I did have the talked about framed face once again - I could see the surprised looks on peoples faces, trying to put their finger why he looks so much better. It’s like they cannot see the difference no recession has to a person and would never be able to put their finger on it.

Its like, everyone is miffed and human intelligence goes out the window when it comes to hair loss and changes of appearance.

This mostly goes unsaid, basically because it doesn’t need to be said.

However, personally, the sad unspoken realisation is, if I at didn’t have this major recession, there would be pictures of up in my living room. I can almost guarantee it.

At the end of the day, I look at my sister and I look just like her basically. The only thing she has over me is hair, yet there is a significant difference in both of our lives.

I have fallen off the rails where she is progressing in life with her new house and boyfriend etc.

Although, I do admit - seeing no pictures does make me sad sometimes. It’s like it’s some kind of confirmation of what I look like, which I know has been severely effected by the hair loss, which would change on a 100% scale if a shocking hairline had not altered my appearance for the worst.

Parents like to show-off their sons and daughters - especially to relatives when you go to family gatherings etc. It’s like there is some kind of unspoken competition going on between how successful their sons or daughters have become. It just subtly goes on amongst all the genuine friendliness amongst the families.

Although parents will always love their kids deep down, when you’ve got hair loss, you’re hardly there to be showcased are you? It just goes on in a subtle manner.

Saying this, if you don’t have recession or it is not major, then this may not be apply to you. Face on, you should have no problem.

However, for me and others, it is. It's a problem that needs to be addressed.
 

GeminiX

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I have hair growing all over the place on my head, but there are'nt any pictures of me up in my parents house.

Didn't have any when I was all baldy either...

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Give it a rest buddy. Parents don't wanna showcase their baseketcase emotional wreck of an insecure son, that's all. Either that, or they don't care much for pictures. It has nothing to do with the hair.

Edit: There used to be pictures of you around the house when you were younger and cuter, key word being younger.
 
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Deaner said:
Give it a rest buddy. Parents don't wanna showcase their baseketcase emotional wreck of an insecure son, that's all. Either that, or they don't care much for pictures. It has nothing to do with the hair.

Edit: There used to be pictures of you around the house when you were younger and cuter, key word being younger.

Not quite Mean Dean.

I look exactly the same as I did 5 years ago. The only thing that has changed is the hair. That is the only thing that has altered my appearance.
 

GeminiX

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Gunner, have you been to get advice on depression?

When I was in my late teems / early twenties I spent many years with clinical depression, ending in manic depression and a well planned but ultimately failed suicide attempt.

Message me in PM if you like.

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GeminiX said:
When I was in my late teems / early twenties I spent many years with clinical depression, ending in manic depression and a well planned but ultimately failed suicide attempt.

Cheers, but I would personally never go down that route.

For the following reasons:-

1) The implications affect those around you more.

2) That’s a whole new ball game in which I would never find myself. Suicide will never enter my mind.

3) I know that things aren’t going to be this bad all the time - meaning things will click into place sooner or later.

Some of angry posters on this site distraught about losing their looks and looks only, would love to see another person fall - it isn’t going to happen for me.

Lastly, I know when things do get back on track, I’ll devote more of my time to helping others out, probably that are going through the same thing, because I know how it feels.

Cheers for the offer though.
 

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Funnily enough, I thought I was ok too, then one day (after a visit to a bunch of quack witch doctors in Manchester) something just snapped.

Don't be afraid to seek professional help. You don't see it at the time, but your misery just drives away the people you most need around you, ultimately leaving you alone and / or at the mercy of people who see you as an easy target.

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Funnily enough, I thought I was ok too, then one day (after a visit to a bunch of quack witch doctors in Manchester) something just snapped.

Don't be afraid to seek professional help. You don't see it at the time, but your misery just drives away the people you most need around you, ultimately leaving you alone and / or at the mercy of people who see you as an easy target.

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Yep, tell me about it.

That last paragraph just sums it up.
 

Wezz

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i actually feel better that there is no pictures of me hanging around the house, especially the living room
 

The Gardener

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Gunner....

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Don't be afraid to let your joy out. Sometimes, troubles become such a habit that we start to think that being happy would focus unwanted attention on us. Aren't you tired of harboring this feeling, this paralyzing grip? Let it go. Don't let it become a habit.
 

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My parents dont have any pictures of me up in the house either. I think your just analyzing it too much. Parents (well most parents) love their children unconditionally (whether they're goodlooking or not)

Havent you heard that phrase "He has a face that only his mother could love"? Parents dont base their love for their children on looks, its much deeper than that.
 
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