I am going to do it...

[H8teen]

I'm a 19 y-old guy, my alopecia in very aggressive, my avarage number of hair lost during a shampoo is certainly over 500 since I was 14 and during the day, touching my hair, I can feel the scalp and a lot of hair fall down, for example now, while I am writing, i am pulling them because I have surely contracted an obsessive disorder.
I can not go on like this, I have to give it a rest.
I have refused every pharmacological treatments, not because of the negative sides or the money (my family would surely helped me if I asked to) but the idea of being dipendent from another thing is inconceivable.
Baldness is a disease, but fortunately create only psychological damage, there are a lot of people who suffer more than me as I saw yesterday in an hopital.
I have ever had medium, long hair, and I realy like me now and everytime i cut them off I feel so ugly. Today or tomorrow I will buzz them,for starting

[Cave Dweller]

Welcome, sir.

Congratulations for not falling into the hair "restoration" trap. You will be surprised at how liberating shaving is.

I have to disagree with you about balding being a disease. It simply is a natural condition some of us go through like puberty. It just happens - and as far as I have been able to discover, no one has died from it.

[Sir Harry]

Welcome aboard and good luck!

[Hingatao]

Welcome to the club. And congratulations on accepting the inevitable.

[clipped]

CaveDeweller said it well. Baldness is not a disease.  For the vast majority of men it is a natural progression of maturity, like puberty. It's society that conditions us to accept that baldness should be viewed as a personal failure or a disease.

Here's another way of looking at baldness: Baldness is the natural progression of head hair of maturing for men. Clipper or razor shaving, like face shaving, is the socially acceptable response for grooming a partially bald head.  Unfortunately, some men do not have this normal hormonal development and never move into a natural bald state. They are cursed with having hair for their entire life.  Many of these men are so paralyzed by fear that they never take control of their situation. Other men realize that since they are among the unfortunate who have not balded naturally, take control of their destiny and realize that they need to be "bald by choice". 

[geeman]

baldness = more testosterone = more manly! welcome . ..shave the noggin and enjoy no more worrying about thinning hair...

[H8teen]

I have just buzzed them because while I was cutting them I was surprised by the hair which I still have and I decided to enjoy them a little more but I have started the process to sly in the future tricopigmentation is the way and in Italy we have got the most important exponent of this sector
It's the first time I have an haircut smaller than 5 cm and I spent 2 h to cut my 15cm hair, now them are about 1 cm - 0.5 mm
Obliviusly I prefered myself with long hair but I am studying psycology and I know that we need only 21 days to transform an event in a common thing, and it work for us and for people who watch us.
Sorry for my english

[greatnessinc]

Baldness is not a disease, it's simply nature taking us full circle (some get there a little sooner than others). For centuries society taught men to dread baldness making them feel like they weren't real men if they didn't have a full head of hair. In recent years those soccio archetypes have become unsustainable, and many people (such as the members of this fine site) have started to break down that wall.

[g_bald]

Welcome H8teen !!

I don't think of it as a disease but then again H8teen's probably learning English so perhaps something like "affliction" might be more appropriate. Hard to say but I don't view it badly.

Now, I used to. I used to think what is wrong with me? But then again, my brother was losing his and my uncle had been wearing a horseshoe for years as had my granddad. I was "afflicted" by the genetic pool.

But I started to embrace shorter and shorter hair, now I have finally taken it all the way. I look at it as the "cure" for the "affliction" !! 

H8teen I think if you're hair is as thin as you say, you will just keep going shorter and shorter (as I did) until you can no longer tell the difference between a clipper shave and 4 days growth of a smooth scalp so you might want to consider that in leaning towards the decision to go smooth...
-gary-

[shinyscalp]

Well I've been loosing my hair for awhile I've tried every hair growth stuff for about two years but I just keep getting Balder so i'm gonna do it the last time I was at my barber she wanted to shave my head said I had the perfect shaped head for it and said I would look much better she does straight razor shaves so this coming Saturday i'm gonna let her shave off what hair I have left i'm tired of trying to hide the bald so wish me luck or try to talk me out of it but my mind is kinda set on this

[Sir Harry]

Welcome, shinyscalp! I think it's a plus that your barber is willing to shave your head for you! Good luck...I can't see anyone trying to talk you out of doing it, in fact we encourage it!

[shinyscalp]

Thank you I don't want to be talked  out of it I hate what hair I have left and my barber said that she thought it would be a big improvement and make me look younger. I'm pretty excited kinda thinking about not waiting until Saturday and trying to get in today infact think I might call her and get this done today

[shinyscalp]

Well I did the deed or my barber did I don't have to worry about going bald because I am bald I really didn't have that much hair to loose it was just the thought of taking that final big step my barber said she thought it looked so much better I feel so much better I saw one lady that I know pretty well she said I look so much better without that nasty comb over I kinda like rubbing my hands over this smooth head of mine wish I would have done this a few years ago. I guess I gotta go looks like I have a hot date.