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Some of you may remember me. I used to frequent this website urgently during the summer of 2012. That's when my anxiety concerning my hair loss peaked, I was in a crisis, and I needed help, an outlet, a community. I met many warm-hearted people who extended their support to me--I was 19 at the time, fairly young to start this process. As all of you know, when there is a crisis, the first human thing is to find a community. So now we are here.
I tried A LOT of different treatments, recommended from all kinds of people I met here, from the conventional to the obscure. And yet none of them worked. In fact, they all made me more miserable, my hair loss ever accelerating. Every topical application or pill I took, ALL I THOUGHT ABOUT WAS THAT I'M BALDING ALL I THOUGHT ABOUT WAS THAT I'M BLADING. It drove me nuts. I abandoned my creative, artistic, and academic passions. I was rude and distant to people I met and knew. There seemed to be this vortex in my mind about my hair loss, and that was the majority of what I thought about. I was miserable. So I started spending hours on this website every day. The more I got pulled into these thought patterns about my balding, the more side effects from treatments I noticed--loss of libido, not able to get a boner, intense fogginess of mind, a sharp change in personality, my ears actually started to ring and I experienced hearing loss and noise sensitivity, and to top it all off, my hair loss was getting worse and worse. None of the treatments worked for me. This was the darkest period of my life.
Look, the more I thought about it, the worse it got. The more I tried to fix it, the more my hair fell out. I think a lot of people on here are of the camp who find that the treatments just don't work, so you're keep searching for the right treatment for you. If your experience with hair loss at all resembles my own, please keep reading.
First of all, and I'm sorry to the administrators (please don't delete this thread; I'm trying to help at least one person), get off of this website, take a long break. The more you fill your mind with topics on hair loss, the more your patterns of thought will be stuck to it, the more self-hate you will feel, and subsequently the health of your body will be affected, namely in that your hair loss will accelerate. Let this be the last post you read on here.
So here is the treatment I can give you that worked for me. I still have some noticeable hair loss, but it really halted for me after I started doing this. Whenever I get caught up about self-image and get depressed, I meditate. I'm about to teach you how to meditate. Find a secluded area, and first take about 10 deep breaths. This will calm you down biologically. Focus on the sensation of your exhalation. Exhale all the way until there is barely any air left, and then notice how naturally your inhalation follows. After 10 of these, close your eyes, and don't control your breath, but breath. This is a lesson in us controlling our selves, our bodies, and our environments. Just let the breath go on its natural ebb and flow without your command. Likewise, our aging has its own natural course of development. Don't try to manipulate this and control it. It will only distort you. Notice the sensation of the breath entering and exiting the tip of your nose, then notice it going in and out your throat, and then notice your abdomen rising and falling. The point is to empty your mind of all external thoughts (including your self-image) and just notice the breath that keeps you alive. You're alive.
Don't stop after one try. It didn't help me at all at first, but I kept practicing. If there's one by you, go to a Buddhist monastery that offers free meditation. There are a bunch of opportunities to learn how to do this out there. Buddhism is all about relinquishing our suffering. Please, if you read all the way to here, try it out. My life has blossomed since I started, I'm find that I will be bald one day, my side effects faded, and after going through this suffering, I'm the happiest I've been
. I came back to this website to give everyone an update of my life.
Some of you may remember me. I used to frequent this website urgently during the summer of 2012. That's when my anxiety concerning my hair loss peaked, I was in a crisis, and I needed help, an outlet, a community. I met many warm-hearted people who extended their support to me--I was 19 at the time, fairly young to start this process. As all of you know, when there is a crisis, the first human thing is to find a community. So now we are here.
I tried A LOT of different treatments, recommended from all kinds of people I met here, from the conventional to the obscure. And yet none of them worked. In fact, they all made me more miserable, my hair loss ever accelerating. Every topical application or pill I took, ALL I THOUGHT ABOUT WAS THAT I'M BALDING ALL I THOUGHT ABOUT WAS THAT I'M BLADING. It drove me nuts. I abandoned my creative, artistic, and academic passions. I was rude and distant to people I met and knew. There seemed to be this vortex in my mind about my hair loss, and that was the majority of what I thought about. I was miserable. So I started spending hours on this website every day. The more I got pulled into these thought patterns about my balding, the more side effects from treatments I noticed--loss of libido, not able to get a boner, intense fogginess of mind, a sharp change in personality, my ears actually started to ring and I experienced hearing loss and noise sensitivity, and to top it all off, my hair loss was getting worse and worse. None of the treatments worked for me. This was the darkest period of my life.
Look, the more I thought about it, the worse it got. The more I tried to fix it, the more my hair fell out. I think a lot of people on here are of the camp who find that the treatments just don't work, so you're keep searching for the right treatment for you. If your experience with hair loss at all resembles my own, please keep reading.
First of all, and I'm sorry to the administrators (please don't delete this thread; I'm trying to help at least one person), get off of this website, take a long break. The more you fill your mind with topics on hair loss, the more your patterns of thought will be stuck to it, the more self-hate you will feel, and subsequently the health of your body will be affected, namely in that your hair loss will accelerate. Let this be the last post you read on here.
So here is the treatment I can give you that worked for me. I still have some noticeable hair loss, but it really halted for me after I started doing this. Whenever I get caught up about self-image and get depressed, I meditate. I'm about to teach you how to meditate. Find a secluded area, and first take about 10 deep breaths. This will calm you down biologically. Focus on the sensation of your exhalation. Exhale all the way until there is barely any air left, and then notice how naturally your inhalation follows. After 10 of these, close your eyes, and don't control your breath, but breath. This is a lesson in us controlling our selves, our bodies, and our environments. Just let the breath go on its natural ebb and flow without your command. Likewise, our aging has its own natural course of development. Don't try to manipulate this and control it. It will only distort you. Notice the sensation of the breath entering and exiting the tip of your nose, then notice it going in and out your throat, and then notice your abdomen rising and falling. The point is to empty your mind of all external thoughts (including your self-image) and just notice the breath that keeps you alive. You're alive.
Don't stop after one try. It didn't help me at all at first, but I kept practicing. If there's one by you, go to a Buddhist monastery that offers free meditation. There are a bunch of opportunities to learn how to do this out there. Buddhism is all about relinquishing our suffering. Please, if you read all the way to here, try it out. My life has blossomed since I started, I'm find that I will be bald one day, my side effects faded, and after going through this suffering, I'm the happiest I've been
. I came back to this website to give everyone an update of my life.
