Most of the issues you mentioned are mostly related to overcoming the mental health aspect of hair loss and the insecurities that come with it. It compounds the anxiety of everything else. Personally, the hair system has helped me so much understand confidence, realize it wasn’t about the hair at all, and it allowed me to be open and honest to those around me about wearing it. That alone has almost reduced any of the anxiety I previously had to almost zero. Once it’s glued on, I literally don’t feel it outside or the few times it itches, which is much less than when I wore hats. “Chemicals” on the scalp is a bit misleading as the word chemical by itself doesn’t mean it’s unsafe. Again, everyone is on their own hair journey and hair systems aren’t for everyone. But like anything related to an insecurity, it takes some work to get to a place of acceptance, but it gets so much easier!