Ohhhh you poor sap. Read his post closely, my friend. It was a joke, that the lotion will be released in
2016. Fidia hasn't said sh*t, as of today.
Or better yet, pace yourself. Spend some time IRL, count how many baldies you see not giving a fk.
I have some news, friendo.
More than 50% of males will go bald :^)
It's been this way since the dawn of our species.
Baldness won't destroy who you are.
And hair won't define what you will become.
You're going to keep suffering until you learn this
So at least pace yourself by spending maybe only, um, 15% of your time on baldness.
We're not going anywhere.
The companies aren't going anywhere.
The disease is not going anywhere.
Just chill out homeslice.
I'd chill with you at a starbucks or something if I were in your town. Sucks that you're having a tough time. I feel sympathetic you know. I work with college students a lot, and I was one not too long ago.
Here's the most important lesson to learn from baldness - don't scramble and "try" to "escape." Make peace with it going either way, cure or no cure. There is no escape.
Spoiler: you know what's after this? Aging. Think of how you don't give a flying f*** right now about grey hair or wrinkles or liver spots or varicose veins or erectile dysfunction or cancer/diabetes/heart attacks or loss of hearing or eye sight or tooth wear or loss of energy/stamina or cognitive decline or....the list goes on. The truth is that you will care about these things when they come. And you'll feel very similar to the way you feel now, if you don't learn your lesson.
And you will eventually especially care about the big one - DEATH. There are no cures for that :^) and it's coming. Slower than the baldness, but it's much more certain than the baldness. I'm not talking about freak accidents. I'm talking about your body puttering to a stop. If you make it to 80, you'll get to wake up watching your life slip away every day, just like you feel as though you are watching your hair slip away now.
The real remedy is to make peace with it. You can't control death or aging or hair loss, boyo.
And the whole time that you spend obsessing over it, you're doing the one thing nobody should do - you're forgetting to live. Think about all of the cool sh*t you would have done with your hair if you had known it had to go. Now think about all of the cool sh*t you should have done with life, IF YOU KNEW IT HAD TO END.
You're a 1/5 of the way there by a conservative estimate. 1/4th, realistically :^).
It's scary to try to move on because you don't know what the future holds as a baldie, but you know, the future is always like that whether it is about hair loss or marriage or a career or whatever. When you want to try something new, be someone else, go/do something else.... it might feel like you are falling into a pit because you don't know how you're going to end up. But I'm trying to spoil it for you - eventually you'll end up dead regardless ^_^ and in all likelihood, you'll end up in interesting places before your time is up, just by trying new sh*t.
It's a shame that people at your age care so much about looks, I know. But they stop caring as they get older not because somehow, magically, they become "mature." It's because the hard truth of life will stare you in the face and come for you whether or not you choose to look away. And as you age and bad sh*t happens a few times, you will realize, "f***...I was so distracted by obsessing over these stupid details that I wasted a lot of time....and now that time is running out, I realize I cared about the wrong sh*t - I forgot to live the only life I have to the fullest"
Part of the "maturity" of age is akin to the "productivity" of working on an assignment the day before it is due. Funny how the stress hits when the sh*t gets real and your mind changes real quick.
Younger people don't really think about aging or long term sh*t. They think the world will spin forever. That's why they are more carefree. But I mean that's an illusion, man...and almost everyone comes around to getting over it eventually.
And don't think you're alone in this - sh*t starts to hit the fan like this throughout the 20s for most people. An analogy for women might be pregnancy. For some, childbearing/childbirth wrecks their perfectly delicate little bodies. But what are they to do, not have children? Lol. Yeah it sucks to go through sh*t like this but yeah this is how it's always been.
Y.O.L.O.