A New Social Networking Site Is Changing The Lives Of People With Alopecia

"The MySpace for baldies," Alopecia World, is changing the lives of founder and other hair loss sufferers.
By: Alopecia World
 
Jan. 31, 2009 - PRLog -- Millions of people are struggling to cope with a common autoimmune disease that causes patchy hair loss and can eventually affect the whole scalp or, in rarer cases, the entire body.

This unpredictable condition, known as alopecia areata, affects members of all genders, ages and ethnic groups.

Because it significantly alters a person’s physical appearance, the disease can also have a devastating impact on one’s self-esteem and quality of life.

Indeed, children with alopecia often are teased and bullied by schoolmates, and adults with alopecia frequently experience lookism or unfair appearance-based discrimination in the workplace.

Cheryl Carvery, co-founder of AlopeciaWorld.com, knows this from experience. When she was 26, she went from having a head full of hair to a head dotted by several large bald spots.

In the years that followed, she hid under a wig and constantly battled within herself not to feel as though she was unattractive to men as well as unacceptable to society.

“The last thing I felt was sexy,” says Carvery, “so I not only resigned myself to spending the rest of my life with alopecia, but also to spending it alone.”

When she began attending the National Alopecia Areata Foundation’s annual conference, she finally realized that bald is beautiful, too, and has preferred to shave her head ever since.

She also started reaching out to others hair loss sufferers online and as a former member and president of the Quebec Alopecia Areata Foundation.

Today, she is touching the lives of thousands of hair loss patients around the world through AlopeciaWorld.com, a unique and positively life changing social networking site like MySpace and Facebook.

“Alopecia World is an online support community formed around the specific needs of people with alopecia and everyone who cares about them,” Carvery points out.

Each member of the site has a customizable profile with privacy options. In addition, they share blogs, photos, videos, events and announcements, participate in informative and inspiring discussions, and form different groups around their interests, not only as alopecians, but also as fascinating and multitalented human beings.

The members of this richly diverse site truly inhabit an amazing world where they meet day and night to encourage one another and exchange information about the best resources for bald and alopecic men, women, and children.

See for yourself at www.alopeciaworld.com and be sure to bring others with you.

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Alopecia World is a unique, exciting and positively life-changing social networking site for anyone living with any type of unwanted, chronic or medical hair loss. Our beloved community also welcomes family, friends and other supporters. Join today to create your FREE member profile and start participating today!
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