{"id":178087,"date":"2010-01-13T23:54:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T04:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:hairlossblues.com:\/\/7c6cd740d886d8fd7a6093de1f0bddb2"},"modified":"2010-01-13T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T04:54:16","slug":"hair-loss-without-using-hair-loss-treatments-it%e2%80%99s-psychological-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/178087","title":{"rendered":"Hair Loss Without Using Hair Loss Treatments: It\u2019S Psychological Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hair loss is not just something that affects the physical \u2013 it transcends first to the psychological, then to the emotional and eventually to social. No matter what people say, on the onset of baldness, people panic and people experience various reactions. It is somehow difficult to convince somebody who is in the starting phase of losing his\/her hair that everything is going to be okay \u2013 for them, you lose your hair, your looks, the one that you work so hard to maintain, would change and you will be a different person from then on.<\/p>\n

Many of the people who experience excessive hair loss, with the impending doom of baldness for whatever reasons, find it difficult to the change that they are undergoing. Most of them would experience anxiety, social phobia, depression. In some cases, there are some people who even have a change in their identity.<\/p>\n

“I used to be a very outgoing person. I went out a lot and I did not have any problems mixing with people or being in a new crowd or place. Then, my hair started falling and from then on, as what my family and friend notice and told me, I changed. I stopped accepting invitations to dinners, night outs, vacations or even shopping. I hated new and old faces alike. I did not look at people’s faces anymore \u2013 I was to afraid to see if they are looking at my baldness and I was always imagining them smirking and trying to hold their laughter off. It was a terrible nightmare.”<\/p>\n

People like Jane who have this kind of reaction to baldness usually experience a change in their self-concept and their body image. Especially for people who had undergone chemotherapy, although they may still get their hair back, the regrown hair would not show the same look as they had before they the treatment. In this case, for chemotherapy patients and just plain balding patients, they lose their confidence, especially for those who people who used to have high self-esteem. The person that they were before has physically changed and they think people looking at them notice this change and that these people would either laugh at or mock them.<\/p>\n

However, this kind of reaction to baldness is not limited to negative effects. Other people, after their initial reactions develop a more positive outlook towards baldness especially with growing trend of fashion icons in the western countries of men who have very short hair or shaven head. This positive development can also be attributed to some common ideas that society has among bald men. Baldness can also express sexual virility and even success.<\/p>\n

“Well, at first I was really worried. I mean, I was going bald. But the more I read about baldness, the more I knew people who are bald and successful. So, I thought, it was just all in the head. If I think its bad for me, then it will really be bad for me. But if I do not think about or think about it with a more positive attitude, then it would just be okay. Sometimes, I still kinda feel bad but not as bad as when everything started.”<\/p>\n

This shows that baldness is not something to be worried about \u2013 that is if you have this super strong self-concept and self-esteem. The sad thing is that not all people have this kind of kind of personality. Others might be able to develop this kind of attitude eventually but still they would be just a handful compared to the many people who have been extremely affected by the psychological effects of hair loss and are not capable of doing something to heal the emotional and social imbalance the psychological effects of baldness have brought them. <\/p>\n

If you think your self-concept is not really that strong, another way to counter the bad psychological effects of baldness is to do something that would somehow restore what baldness has took from you-your hair. Try to get a decent and effective Katy hair loss treatment that would bring back your lost hair. Make sure that the hair loss treatment that you get is suitable and compatible for the kind of hair loss case that you have.<\/p>\n

No matter what way you use to take you away from the bad psychological effects of baldness, make sure that it is something that would suit you and that it would not lead to more problems. Remember, baldness is just a state of mind, do not let it eat you. But, if it does, there are always hair loss treatments that you could use.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Seymour M. Weaver, III, M.D. is a Black Hair Medical Expert<\/b><\/a> & Board Certified Dermatologist and is one of Houston’s most respected cosmetic dermatologists and surgeons. His expertise provides breakthrough advancements in Katy hair loss treatments <\/b><\/a> and and procedures to help his clients get the skin and shape that can boost their confidence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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