How do you help a child feel less self-concious with alopecia areata?

June 30, 2010 | By Micah In Hair Loss Treatments |

My son has alopecia areata and does not want to shave his head bald. He also does not want to grow his hair out longer. My only option is to dramatically boost his self-confidence in a very shot time without making him vain. Any ideas?


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3 Comments so far

  1. STAR on June 30th, 2010

    WELL I DEALT WITH IT WHEN I WAS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL ALMOST 15 YEARS OLD. IMPORTANT TIME IN MY LIFE…
    I HAD LONG HAIR DOWN TO MY BUTT SO YOU SEE THE PICTURE…
    THEN MY HAIR STARTED FALLING OUT IN SPOTS FIRST ON THE SIDES OF MY HEAD THEN THE BACK THEN THE TOP…I DIDN’T CUT IT EITHER…
    MINE DID EVENTUALLY GROW BACK..

    THERE IS NOT MUCH YOU CAN SAY TO HIM NOW THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
    HE KNOWS WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE.

    YOU CAN GIVE HIM THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT IT IS… SO WHEN PEOPLE ASK HIM, HE CAN TELL THEM…
    WHY HE HAS THIS..
    .IT IS HARD AND AT TIMES… EMBARRASSING BUT, HE WILL GET THROUGH IT…I DID..
    .
    HANG IN THERE MOM…
    HE WILL BE OK..

  2. if huey freeman was a girl...... on June 30th, 2010

    the key is to communicate and let that child know that haor is just somthing that happens to be on your head, tell the child that it has nothing to do with his personality and he still is an attractive person, make the problem seem non chalant and feeble, let him know that hair is not everything, and as far as people tesing him tell him to accept himself, and if all elese fails, if someone is still making fun of him frankly tell him to say " kiss my ass" as firmly as possible

    good luck

  3. finaldx on June 30th, 2010

    You don’t say how old your son is, and that would help tremendously in tailoring the answers appropriately.

    I had that some years back, and nothing helped, until I "split the sheets" with the guy who was making my home life miserable. Viola! it grew back right away. You need to look at what is stressing him, and do whatever humanly possible to remove those stressors from his life.

    There is not much way to boost his self-confidence in this particular arena, other than to reassure him it is a transient condition, and almost all of them resolve. In the long run, he will look back on it and realize that it was part of building his character, but I would imagine he is pretty unhappy about it now.

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