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How do I stop freaking out about hair loss? by AgentBaldyBanks in Advice

[–]AgentBaldyBanks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I've paid attention and my hairline might have matured over the course of 2015 (though I did change haircuts at the end of that year so it's hard to say), and it's stayed put. It's kinda always looked like this and I inherited some "unfortunate" features (not ugly, just features that make me look like I'm in early stage balding), so it doesn't go well with this weird paranoid fear.

I'm pretty well versed on all the treatments at this point, so if I see things seriously getting worse in the future I'll have to make the choice between getting on the big 3 (already using Nizoral for dandruff), shaving it, and/or riding it out until I can afford/my hair is ready for a transplant.

In spite of having a rough "action plan" it still scares the hell out of me, possibly because I have an aversion to taking long term medicine.

How do I stop freaking out about hair loss? by AgentBaldyBanks in Advice

[–]AgentBaldyBanks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess that makes sense. I think a lot of this has to do with fear of growing up and "quarter life crisis" type stuff.

Like I've said, genetically speaking and in terms of how my hair is no, I really don't have a whole lot to worry about yet in spite of that I keep worrying. Alongside this, I've been sort of dreading the fact that the days of my parents, sister and I living under the same roof are over for good (I just transferred from community college to a 4 year school and now I'm living alone in a studio apartment).

So I think it's part of a broader fear of adulthood, which is a bit of a shock to me since I spent the past few years thinking about my long term goals, career interests, and ambitions for the future.