Hello everyone I'm 19 and i got diagnosed with alopecia about 5 months ago. I've lost about 50% of my hair now.
As it was i was already uncomfortable around people with a full head of hair, i went to therapy for social anxiety about a year ago, the hair loss has not made that much easier.
But lately, I've decided i need to stop feeling sorry for myself. If tears could bring back my hair i would have had a full head of hair a long time ago and then enough to make a wig for everyone else, but it doesn't. Real life tears are not magical like the ones in movies.
This is me now and i am now just starting to be okay with that. I will not let this control me and my emotions, i may not have any control over what my hair does anymore but i do have control over how i react to the situation. So I've decided I've mourned the loss of my hair long enough, I'm ready to be happy again. Maybe even happier than I was before I started experiencing the hair loss. I have started seeing my alopecia as a blessing in disguise, it almost feels like a new start, a shiny, bald, bright new start.
I still have my bitter and sad moments and my desperate wishes for my hair to grow back,but I will be okay if it doesn't.