Bald/balding guys, how were you able to come to terms with the unfortunate truth that you were losing your hair?

[Anonymous]

I'm only 20 years old, and I first noticed I was losing my hair last year when I was 19. I recently got a haircut and could see that my hair had become far thinner on the top than I had originally thought and it came as a bit of a shock because I didn't expect to lose so much in only a year.

I used to have a great, thick head of hair. I figured I might start losing my hair later on in life as I got into my 30s-40s and was shocked to see that, at only 20 years old, the hair loss had progressed so much.

It feels so weird, and I honestly don't know what to do about it. I might just shave it all off and go fully bald before the thinning just gets to the breaking point. I'm curious, for all you bald/balding dudes, how'd you cope with losing your hair?

[jp612612]

You know, I've always been fascinated by this because I clearly have one of those heads of hair that will never bald. However, in college when I had friends who were losing their hair, they were always in denial about it. They were REALLY bothered by the whole thing and I always felt that I wouldn't care if it happened. I wonder if it's because I knew it would never happen so it's easy for me to think that way? I don't know, but I will say this -- given how my balding friends all reacted to the loss of their hair in their early/mid 20s, it doesn't surprise me that you have no responses.