From full hair to bald in 6 months | SBS Insight

Why is hair loss so challenging and how can it be managed? Insight chats to those who've experienced hair loss and how they've adapted.

0:00 Intro
0:45 Suffering from androgenetic alopecia
3:04 Losing hair in high school as a man
5:24 When does shedding hair become male or female pattern baldness?
6:35 Losing all my body hair at 18
7:50 12-year-old Kyla's experience with alopecia
13:02 How does being bald affect confidence?
13:50 From full hair to bald in 6 months
15:21 I adored my beach boy hair, then I lost it all.
17:16 Unrealistic beauty standards on women
19:46 Thoughts on bald men
22:39 Hair loss treatments
32:50 How much does treatment cost?
36:43 Stopping treatment
38:22 Wearing wigs
42:44 Accepting baldness
44:38 Dating whilst bald

Insight, hosted by Kumi Taguchi, is Australia's leading forum for powerful first-person stories offering a unique perspective on the way we live.

Insight first went to air in 1995 and has since been a mainstay of SBS current affairs programming. The team doesn't shy away from taboo topics: from polygamy, to brain implants, to the secrets revealed on the deathbed.