Growing Hair

[ffaux]

I have a theory about hair loss being correlated with beliefs that your family/community/society/whatever doesn't depend on you.

This concept presupposes that having others depend on you is important. That will not be the case for everyone, and even if it was, why would it result in hair loss? What are the details of your theory here, ffaux? I'm curious.

A couple of really vague threads of thought.

Firstly, "depend on you" in this context means that you feel you are contributing meaningfully and that your family/community/society requires you for their ongoing survival and will be weaker without you.

1. Male pattern baldness is mostly thought of as being inherited from the mothers side. I believe I've observed a pattern where men who are balding haven't broken out of the womb psychologically and don’t perceive themselves as members upon which their family/community/society depend for their survival.

2. The second major group of balding men seem to start balding post mid-life crisis where they question the meaningfulness of their lives.

3. Beyond that, loosing your hair is traditionally associated with old age, retirement and children growing up (i.e. no longer being required for the survival of society).

Maybe it’s more about meaningfulness than interdependence but those are the unscientifically observed patterns that led me to my hypothesis.