Coping With Hair Loss
Hair loss, although highly emotionally damaging and stressful, doesn't have to be a major problem. By altering your lifestyle, you can significantly improve the condition of your hair, and go some way to ensuring effective coverage of any thin hair areas. Firstly, if you notice the emergence of hair loss consult your physician. This will allow for effective diagnosis of the underlying problems of your condition, and will allow for implementation of a treatment programme, where applicable, to help with your symptoms and attempt to strengthen and thicken your hair growth. Secondly it is important to keep in regular contact with your physician throughout, to monitor progress and effectiveness of treatment and potentially uncover better ways of dealing with the situation you are facing.
In addition to following treatment protocol, it is also advantageous to consider some form of temporary coverage. Particularly effective are the modern wigs manufactured for this very reason. Forget the image of obvious, itchy old carpets. Modern wigs are made with lightweight technology, and strive to minimise discomfort and itching. Furthermore, they made to look as realistic as possible, and are very effective at covering up hair loss of any form, for any patient. Although this may not be the ideal situation, take comfort in the fact that it doesn't have to alter the course of your life, and you can easily look as stylish in a wig as with your own hair. If you decide not to go for a wig, you may also like to consider hats and other headwear as a temporary solution, and again, these will go some way towards covering up hair loss in the short term.
Similarly, some use make up, or even cut their remaining hair to create a certain fashionable look. This may be more applicable to males however, as a common hairstyle, rather than females, although there are certain socio-cultural female circles which would deem this attractive and stylish.
Above all, it is important to be sure that you don't let your hair loss ruin your life. It is most probably a temporary experience, and will likely grow back with the start of your new natural growth cycle. Hair loss is a constant process, as is hair growth, and only in extreme circumstances will you see irreversible results. It's not the end of the world, and you're still the same person inside after all. Try to maintain your social life, and not dwell on your condition too much, as this will serve to further hinder your recovery and progress, and will only cause depression and sorrow. Additionally, try to maintain a healthy balanced diet and treat your remaining hair well. This will encourage effective growth and leave your hair healthier and stronger as it grows back. There are more serious conditions in the world, and your true friends will respect you regardless. Just remain confident in yourself, and your abilities as a person, and allow this to determine your self confidence, rather than your appearance, which isn't a major factor at the end of the day.
Hair Loss News On The Web
Win the War Against Hair Loss (ThirdAge) Whether you're 30 years old or 80 years old, hair loss in women can be traumatic. Its victims try countless ways to cover up this problem -- and the results are often lukewarm at best. |
Hair affair to help cancer kids (Queens Courier) Ladies with long locks and men with messy manes united at St. John’s University on Tuesday, March 2 to fight childhood cancer by shaving their heads or donating their hair to children in need. |
Author writes about loss, family in India and US (The Star) NEW YORK: "Secret Daughter" (William Morrow, 352 pages, US$23.99), by Shilpi Somaya Gowda: Sometimes the image in our minds of what we have lost is far greater than the loss itself, and so it is for Asha, who was given up for adoption by her birth parents in India. |
Used '80s dream cars, an AW list: (AutoWeek) Ah, the '80s--the time of big hair, MTV and underpowered cars. The decade wasn't a total loss, though. You could find a few diamonds in the rough. You can still find them today, too, with a discerning eye. |
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