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Maybe all we need to do is just go around and 'infect' other people. Start shaving random peoples hair off and they'll experience what it's like to live with MPB for a whole two weeks, but nevertheless, those two weeks will be the hardest two weeks of their life. I'd be surprised if any if them would even show up to work or even leave their house.
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Which is like 90% of the population. Anyone who has truly experienced the before and after of hair loss can tell you that their quality of life has significantly diminished, so much to the point where many consider just ending it.
If you've come on this forum just to undervalue the impact of this life altering disease, feel free to show yourself out. We already have enough of you guys on the board as it is.Comment
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The problem with baldness isn't two weeks, its that its forever.
I would two weeks of being bald over the weeks after my ACL replacement surgery.
Or the two weeks where I got the mumps while traveling abroad.
Or the two weeks after I got a grade 3 ankle sprain.
I think we all just need patience. And I for one am not going to throw money at somebody's start-up website, or try what might be a treatment without thoroughly understanding the risks.Comment
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And I hate to tell you this, but sooner or later, 100 percent of the population has a real health scare or surgery.
And as far as suicidality goes, if you have felt depression severe enough you've considered suicide or really felt depressed (I'm more annoyed) due to hair loss, I suggest focusing on treating your mental health. I'm not being rude hear, but I think there's far more effective treatments for mental health than for hair loss, especially when it comes to increasing overall happiness.Comment
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You can be unhappy.
But to think being bald is the worst two weeks of someones life relative to all the other crap we go through is naive.
Sorry, but I'm feeling far more comfortable and grateful with my current health because I just found out my father has prostate cancer.
Baldness sucks. But its cosmetic.
There's so much stuff that's worse.Comment
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So... what's your point? We should just accept being repulsive to other socially 'attractive' people? Or is the basic human of community, acceptance and belonging get thrown right out the window because YOU say things could always be worse. Yeah they could... I could have cancer. But if I had cancer, I could say I could have AIDS. Or if I had AIDS I could say I could have Ebola... and if that, I could say I could be DEAD.
You're not making any damn sense. You're on the wrong forum.Comment
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Somebody else said they wanted to shave other peoples heads so they could experience two weeks of baldness and those two weeks would be the worst part of their lives.
My reply is to that dumb statement.
As far as this forum my only point is to be patient. That, or get a Ph.D/nd specializing in cloning or genetics. That's the only way any of us can have a direct influence unless someone has a billion dollars to spend.Comment
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Thats EXACTLY the point man. You could have any of those things, but instead you have something that is way way way down on the totem pole. No one is asking you to say that balding is an awesome fun time, they are just on your back because compared to the problems that most of the world has its nothing, and thus you sound like whiny three year old girl. Plus baldness is not even in the same ballpark as cancer. you could also have a gimp leg, be missing an arm, be blind, be deaf, have vitiligo, be broke, be homeless, have cauliflower ears, be a midget, be horrendously ugly, be paralyzed, lose your parents, lose your sibling, have lyme disease, have a gunshot wound that makes you shit into a bag, etc etc etc. Baldness is not a big problem, and the vast majority of men have to deal with it at some point, which is why it is not seen by anyone as a major issue. Also I know plenty of "socially attractive people" whatever the **** that means, who think bald guys are very attractive. I was never repulsed by bald guys and I don't really know anyone who is. half the girls you talk shit about have bald fathers, i can assure you they are not repulsed unless they are idiots.Comment
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How about we add you and hellouser to the list of completely immature and mentally traumatized individuals who desperately need to seek a mental health professional, because your problem is that you completely lack self esteem and are delusional about what it means to be bald. Balding is annoying and makes you slightly less attractive to some people. That is it. We all hate it, but i for one think its incredibly shitty of you to come on these forums and make other people depressed, especially young people, because you can't come to terms with your first world problem. You insult my bald friends and family and myself, and so many other bald people that have great lives and are respected for their more important traits, with your idiotic commentary about how being bald is worth suicide and worth being unhappy losers. The people who SHOULD be on this forum are people who are interested in the research and options, and people who want help coping. not people who need to be seeing psychiatrists or people who have such low self esteem that they need to vomit it all over everyone else and make up stupid shit about society having a vendetta against balding men. give me a break.
Als0- your quality of life changed because you feel inferior because of your baldness. if you acted like it was nothing, your quality of life would not change one bit- guaranteed. Ive seen it more times than i can count at the age of 32. even the friends i have who hide their baldness with caps didn't let it change their quality of life. they still go out and find girls and work hard and are productive and happy. so lay off of the self pity pipe and grow up to be a man.Comment
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Why is it that every time I come to a thread for a while it has to turn into telling people when and why it's ok to feel the way they do? The comment with regards to shavibg people's head to show them a miserable two weeks was obviously sarcastic, and if you can't wrap your mind around that then you need to be checked out mentally yourself.. I think we all understand that cancer or other life threatening sicknesses would be awful, and it's easy to underestimate their impacts while we sit comfortably away from those issues at this time, but I can also understand the hole hairloss can put you in emotionally! I think we can all agree that there are those that can deal with things better than others so let's leave it at that, and if you happen to be lucky enough not to suffer emotionally from your hairloss then good for you, but you can't push it on someone else!Comment
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That is a great answer and makes a fantastic point. The biggest pain point of hairloss for many, is coping and accepting. For me at least, that has been the biggest challenge.
You are right, that you CAN find great treatments that allow you to better cope and not feel like every day is a fight in an endless battle.
Good for you for reminding people.Comment
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And if you cope better your life will still be damaged because of hair loss. I was majoring in sociology before I got a great job and I assure you that attractiveness goes a long way towards deciding how society interacts with a human being. The studies are overwhelmingly in favor of this concept. Attractiveness or unattractiveness can even decide if you go to jail or not if you're a defendant in a criminal trial. Here's some interesting reading for you all:
And here's some links to stories about attractive people being treated better in the criminal justice system:
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