How Hair Loss Affects Confidence

As any hair loss sufferer can attest baldness isn’t just a medical condition with specific physiological effects, it also has a psychological component. One of those is a loss of confidence.

Confidence is a tricky thing to define. Where it comes from, what causes it, and what can hurt it is not easy to ascertain. But studies have shown that in men who suffer from hair loss, nearly 75% of them feel less confident since the onset of the hair loss, especially in dealing with the opposite sex. And it isn’t just men. Statistics regarding female hair loss are so difficult to compile mainly because of a tendency on the part of women with hair loss to camouflage and hide a medical condition that they feel stigmatized by.

But even though these same studies show that men who suffer from hair loss earn nearly 10% less than men who do not suffer from the same condition, there is cause for optimism. Once a life sentence that required drastic measures like a hair replacement (bad wig) or surgery (an equally bad hair transplant) today technology offers the hair loss sufferer a chance to reclaim some of that confidence they feel they have lost.

FDA-approved medications like Rogaine and Propecia work for a majority of patients in stemming existing hair loss and sometimes promoting new hair regrowth. And hair transplants, which were once the domain of painful and artificial-looking rugs, are now so precise with their micrograft technology that a functional and natural- looking scalp is now not just dream but a very real possibility.

A full head of hair cannot guarantee instant confidence. Oftentimes there are numerous psychological factors at work in the buildup of one’s confidence. But like the placebo effect, if you feel you are less confident…then you probably are. So why not do something about it?