Why am I obsessed about a patch of thin hair on my head?

[optimisticzoomer]

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Not hair loss
But congenital bald spot with transplants
Surgeon told me to try SMP before another transplant, but I feel like I will want to know I have full coverage, not dots providing an illusion

 

[Sceptical]

insecurity

 

[optimisticzoomer]

insecurity

But why?
People keep telling me it’s not that bad, but I know it’s not normal, so I obsess over it

 

[Sceptical]

But why?
People keep telling me it’s not that bad, but I know it’s not normal, so I obsess over it

bcuz that's how insecurity works.
we all have them and are painfully aware of them all the time even if people don't notice or say anything about it

 

[doppiokun]

alopecia areata

 

[optimisticzoomer]

bcuz that's how insecurity works.
we all have them and are painfully aware of them all the time even if people don't notice or say anything about it

It’s easier to get over when it’s something within normal variation, e.g. a big nose, than when it’s something that is a “defect” tbh

 

[optimisticzoomer]

alopecia areata

Nah it’s not that
But the bald patch looked like one of those
It was only one and I was born with it

 

[doppiokun]

Nah it’s not that
But the bald patch looked like one of those
It was only one and I was born with it

i got it twice through my life
bald spots randomly spawn but they go away within months