July 27, 2009
Loss of Hair Need Not Mean Loss of Confidence
Androgenic alopecia is very common with young men in their 20s and 30s. Even though it’s “everyday”, it’s no less agonizing for the individual. Androgenic alopecia is commonly an early sign of ageing, and can happen as soon as your late teens, and such early balding can lead to social anxiety and even depression. While the public at large view baldness as normal, it’s no laughing matter when it’s you losing your hair.
Androgenic alopecia (or male pattern baldness) strikes men in contrasting ways. Some men do not experience any kind of baldness until later on in life. Others suffer the very common male pattern : a gentle receding around the temples. Other male balding patterns include the crown first of all, or a quick thinning out of all hair.
If all men lost his hair at the same time in the same way, it might be reasoned that we wouldn’t find it so agonising. Nevertheless, it’s the variety of balding patterns and rate in how they occur which makes many individuals feel rather depressed and simply unlucky if they experience particularly rapid forms of balding.
Look online and you might be forgiven for thinking there’s a myriad of simplistic cures to baldness. Just take X pills and/or apply Y spray topically, and you will prevent baldness. Sure, there are hair thickeners, and medicines that can slow down the balding process somewhat, but there’s no recognized cure to losing one’s hair - no magic supplement that individuals can use to utterly guarantee regrowth of hair, or the prevent baldness.
But there is a solution. There are hair systems men can put on to hide their balding pate. These hair systems can be made matching their hair colour and type of balding pattern. Even close-up it’s frequently tricky to understand that there is actually a hairpiece fitted. If wearing one is the difference between feeling confident or feeling depressed and anxious, then it’s advisable to get one.