Hair Loss: The Psychological Effect and Remedy

Hair loss in males, unless premature, is a normal occurrence and is normally referred to as "male pattern balding." Irrespective of its naturalness or the longevity of its existence, it makes males feel embarrassed no less. Hair loss causes a decline in positive self image and males start feeling inferior simply because their heads have lesser hair everyday. To put it differently, it starts affecting one's mind more than one's scalp.

Male pattern baldness is not exactly a disease; it is simply a stage of life. It happens to most of those whose fathers had a bald head in their advanced age. Therefore, logically speaking, there should not be anything to be embarrassed about. But that's not how it is. We want to have our hair on our heads all our lives. So, we go in hot pursuit for what causes it and what can cure it. So, if you are looking for someone or something to blame- well, it is the genes most of the time.

In face of the problem, many of us resort to shaving our heads and some of us actually look really great. However, there are still some who do not want to get their lovely hair shaven off.

Worse are the cases where the baldness sets in earlier than it should, which creates another kind of psychological problem. In such cases, people start feeling older than they are. And this depresses them very much.

There are several medical options available from hair loss treatment to hair transplantation. But before you go for any of it, there is an important thing to be borne in mind all the while. There are chances that nothing works except for hair transplant. And even after the transplant some people might harbor the regret that their hair are not their own.

There is no external medical remedy for it because the trouble is inside and the remedy does not lie in 'treating' it but in 'fighting' it. One needs to make oneself understand that hair might be a part of one's personality, but they are, for sure, a very small part. They do not constitute one's whole persona. So, what you are and what you are widely appreciated for lies in your heart and mind, and not in your hair. Once this is understood, hair or no hair, one walks tall. And believe me, it looks no less elegant than ever.