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loss and depression
wow! For years I thought that there was something SERIOUSLY wrong with me for feeling so depressed about hair loss. I can't believe how many other people are so affected by it. I am not saying that I have learned to accept it b/c I haven't, but I see dozens of bald men everyday going about their lives - at the grocery store, at work, even on television (well really just 1 or 2 out of the hundreds of faces I see on the TV/ every week but still there are some). The custodian of my apartment complex has a prosthetic leg and he wears shorts everyday. If someone can lose a leg and wear shorts in public everyday SURELY we can all learn to accept losing our hair.
Originally Posted by Fixed by 35
I disagree. If there was no hope or prospect of an effective treatment, I wouldn't be here by now. I'd have given up on life long ago and either be dead or living rough.
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A lot of people you see on TV 'cover up' and fair play to them.
I see bald men going about their daily lives but if you look at the younger ones most of them avoid eye contact and seldom smile. When I meet a happy person with premature hair loss I'll consider changing my views.
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Fixed,
Are you suggesting every young bald guy just kill themselves?? Life after death can be a lot worse,right? Then you definitely won't have a chance of curing baldness...
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My best friend has a shaved head. He started losing his hair in college and just started shaving it. He is married, has 2 kids, and is just about the most self confident guy I know. People might say "Oh well he's African American, and all African American guys look good with shaved heads." I've "met" online plenty of African American men who are just as devestated about hair loss as people of any other ethnicity. But he sure as hell isn't - or he does a damned good job of pretending to not mind.
Originally Posted by Fixed by 35
A lot of people you see on TV 'cover up' and fair play to them.
I see bald men going about their daily lives but if you look at the younger ones most of them avoid eye contact and seldom smile. When I meet a happy person with premature hair loss I'll consider changing my views.
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I don't know if I was happier about making sgt. or having a beret to cover my balding pate. I wish I could just wear a beret to work everyday. It such a tiny, tiny thing but it would make life SO much better. Sometimes I think about some of the countries I've been posted in and all the men wearing keffiyah. Wouldn't it be nice if a head covering was part of western culture? We'd instantly be a thousand times happier.
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Or being Jewish like me and wish I can wear a yarmakah always..Maybe I should become orthodox! The picture of you looks good.
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great idea!
Jump on that. Get one of those nice big Sephardic yarmakas. What can anyone say? Take it off? Tell em to take a look at the Consitution. Maybe you'd really end up orthodox and inner peace would allow you to come to terms with balding.
Originally Posted by dgman21
Or being Jewish like me and wish I can wear a yarmakah always..Maybe I should become orthodox! The picture of you looks good.
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Jack21- I really dont know where you are looking to see such a drastic difference. You look just as good in the second pic as you do in the first! The only difference i can see is the hunched shoulders 'im ashamed of myself' type stance.Honestly, you look absolutely fine!
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Well thanks jooder. Obviously the miserable look of depression and the hunched shoulders don't help. If I had more support like yours I would be doing a lot better. My beard needs a trim too. I thank you and hope that I can find more support from my family. My best friend is in my corner but that's about it.
Originally Posted by jooder
Jack21- I really dont know where you are looking to see such a drastic difference. You look just as good in the second pic as you do in the first! The only difference i can see is the hunched shoulders 'im ashamed of myself' type stance.Honestly, you look absolutely fine!
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