Thin or Thinning hair

[DW1990]

Hello Everyone.

First post from myself.

I have been concerned about my hair loss for about 6 years. I am currently 28. I went through a really bad shedding phase through stress with work around 5 years ago which was awful. I have receded on the temple areas by 1 inch on my left and 0.5 on my right roughly. ( I don’t help this by using a hair dryer hot while doing my hair brushing it backwards)

When I was younger my hair was much thicker, I’m sure that is the case for the majority of us compared to when we mature into adults, I’m at the stage now where I am debating a HT to restore the hairline slightly hoping I am a good candidate to do so.

If I brush my hair back or to the side , you would never know If I had thin hair maybe just receded a bit ( try to hide that as much as I can ) natural look to some. I’ll admit that a lot of the time I don’t do myself any justice by looking into harsh lighting when I do check my hair. One hair dresser thought I had a HT around 5 years ago which tells me I want to believe it hasn’t got any thinner. I don’t shed at all really in the shower nor do I pull a few hairs when I do a pull test.

The thought of losing your hair is toxic, it’s so hard to look into a mirror and not check, try to slap myself in the face sometimes and stop being so vein as people have it a lot worse ! It seems to be all that I think about. I seem to go through phases of being paranoid to hell then it eases off If I find peace with a certain hairstyle. If you found time to read/comment it is truly appreciated.

How do I determine if it’s thin or thinning ?



Wishing you all the best.