Posted on 01/30/2005 5:44:28 PM PST by beavus
ISLAMABAD, January 31 (Online): Hair loss is probably the one thing that causes men more anxiety than anything else in their life.
Receding hairlines and the arrival of the bald patch are feared by men around the globe. Not even the efforts of superstars such as Bruce Willis and Andre Agassi to make baldness fashionable have succeeded in releasing men from this inherent terror.
Hair may start to disappear from the temples and the crown of the head at any time. For some men this process starts as early as the later teenage years, for most it happens in the later 20's and early 30's. Initially it may just be a little thinning that's noticed. Then, the absence of hair allows more of the scalp to become visible.
Some men are not troubled by this process at all. Others, however, suffer great emotional distress associated with a lack of self-confidence and sometimes depression.
In male pattern baldness, which is hereditary, the hair is usually lost at the temples and the crown. This happens because an over-sensitivity of the hair follicle to normal levels of testosterone switches the hair loss gene on. Not every hair follicle has this gene which is why some hair falls out whilst other hair doesn't.
Other causes of hair-loss that are usually reversible include; iron deficiency anaemia; under-active thyroid; fungal scalp infection; some prescribed medicines; and stress.
Many men find that their hair loss slows down or stops for no apparent reason at a certain age anyway. A huge number of treatments have been tried to slow down and even reverse the process of hair-loss - some are successful, others are not.
Simple solution, at the first sign of a receding hairline, shave your head.
What wrong with wigs?
So can all sorts of other things. But would it be worth guessing... "Hair loss can cause anxiety in women"?
Anxiety can cause hair loss in men.
Hey! Sounds like a great idea for a tax-payer funded study! I think I'll write up a grant proposal!
It's women who cause anxiety in hair loss.
I once knew a family, where all the members were balding...I worked in a little store, and the two older brothers started coming in...they were both probably in their early 30s and both were almost completely bald...then their younger brother came up from the south, , where they all were from and this younger brother, probably in his late teens, early 20s, was also almost completely bald...
Then a few months later, they brought the two sisters up...they were probably in their mid 20s, and altho not bald, they had to have had the skimpiest, thinnest hair I ever saw on women...
Then a few months later both the mother and father came up...and the father was bald, and the mother was almost bald...
The whole family was bald or balding...I never found out if it was a genetic pattern, or if there was something in their diet or environment where they came from that contributed to this...
Nothing, but a shaved head is less costly and far easier to maintain.
Not unless mom and dad were genetically related!
Alopecia, hypothyroidism, Love Canal. Hard to say. Hopefully they saw a doc.
Interesting story.
Yeah, but with wigs you can change your style, length, and color every day of the week.
The family curse did not skip a generation, so I simply decided to accept my baldness with grace and dignity.
"Hair loss can cause anxiety in men"
As Best of the Web Today would ask:
Where would we be without the Pak Tribune?
We have SYNERGY!
I hear the best solution is something called a "combover".
Bald spots are fun to rub, kiss, and draw on :o)
That's how I feel! That's why I get it delivered. WSJ, NYT, PT, every day.
Where on your body, specifically, you're losing your hair is probably the biggest determinant in how much it's bothering you.
This may explain some things about the more neurotic men I've known.....
I suppose its not out of the realm of possibility that the parents were related....I do not want to pose stereotypes here, but this was more than 40yrs ago, and this whole family was from a very small isolated region down in the south...they had moved to Chicago(where I encountered them), in search of employment....but they hated the city, and all but one of the sisters went back south to their little town...
When I think about it, the mother and father did seem to resemble each other, but dont know if that was because of the baldness...everyone in the family looked like everyone else...so I suppose the mom and dad may have been related, like cousins or some such...
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