I'm getting completely wrecked by my anxiety of whether or not I'm going bald. My parents and my girlfriend of three years say that I'm crazy because I'm not balding, and that my hair has always looked like that. I wouldn't know because I wore my hair in a solid bowl cut all the way through high school (somehow still got chicks, for some reason. I looked like crap back then). However, I do remember that I always had a naturally high hairline, and my friends would joke saying that if I even receded a little, it would look like I was going bald. I got a haircut for a job interview (use to wear it really long before), and I wore a beanie to school a lot because the hair cut was terrible. When my hair was short, I didn't notice my balding that much. It was when I grew my hair really long that I noticed my hair line in a mirror.
My hair is thick, there's no thinning anywhere around my head that I can tell. I pass the pull test in every location of my head, even in the corners of the temples. I can't pull out any hairs at all most of the time, and when I do, I only pull out one. I get the ones with the little white bulb at the end, which I read is good. The only place that I'm worried about is my left temple. My right temple is spot on. Honestly, if my left looked like my right, I probably wouldn't even be on this board right now. But anyways, here's some pictures. I know they're crappy; I had to use the camera on my mac.
Left temple: http://imgur.com/OeA9NQD
Right temple: http://imgur.com/WzwzH68
How far back the right temple goes: http://imgur.com/4TSyNxi
How far back the left temple goes: http://imgur.com/kdyWjpZ
As a further note, from the lowest point of my hairline, my temples are exactly one inch above that which I read is spot on with a mature hair line. However, the roundness of my left temple is what's causing me the most concern. I'm not shedding at all. I'm not pulling tons of hair when taking a shower or when styling my hair. And my hair looks good when wet, so no signs of diffuse thinning. I did have a scare about my crown at some point, but on further examination of old photos, it was nothing to worry about. So the only sign of MPB that I have is my hairline which has always been high, and a little receded since I was born. I was thinking that maybe this could be a mature hair line that just looks off because my hair was naturally receded to begin with?
My hair is thick, there's no thinning anywhere around my head that I can tell. I pass the pull test in every location of my head, even in the corners of the temples. I can't pull out any hairs at all most of the time, and when I do, I only pull out one. I get the ones with the little white bulb at the end, which I read is good. The only place that I'm worried about is my left temple. My right temple is spot on. Honestly, if my left looked like my right, I probably wouldn't even be on this board right now. But anyways, here's some pictures. I know they're crappy; I had to use the camera on my mac.
Left temple: http://imgur.com/OeA9NQD
Right temple: http://imgur.com/WzwzH68
How far back the right temple goes: http://imgur.com/4TSyNxi
How far back the left temple goes: http://imgur.com/kdyWjpZ
As a further note, from the lowest point of my hairline, my temples are exactly one inch above that which I read is spot on with a mature hair line. However, the roundness of my left temple is what's causing me the most concern. I'm not shedding at all. I'm not pulling tons of hair when taking a shower or when styling my hair. And my hair looks good when wet, so no signs of diffuse thinning. I did have a scare about my crown at some point, but on further examination of old photos, it was nothing to worry about. So the only sign of MPB that I have is my hairline which has always been high, and a little receded since I was born. I was thinking that maybe this could be a mature hair line that just looks off because my hair was naturally receded to begin with?
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