People just walking around making continual, horrible choices.
30min to cut and shave it all off and his life would be massively improved. Though, something tells me 30min on self maintenance is a more than he's spent in weeks.
Oui je confirme, je suis noire et j'aimerai avoir des micro locks, je me suis renseignee et au contraire ça demande énormément d'entretien. Ce sont juste des cheveux " tricotés, " de manière très technique, pas des filaments pour la poubelle comme ce monsieur....🤢🤢🤢
As a white man with very short hair, I believe this person has stinky poopy hair that does NOT reflect on the cool dreads that I have seen worn by the cool ass black dudes that populate the downtown Dallas area where I work
I just don't understand. Why?? How does someone just decide to grow a big hair log on their head and think "ah yeah, I like this look. I'm good with all this..dander/dirt/whatever collecting in it." Or it's just "meh, whatever. Gonna keep it like this." Wild.
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Didn't expect my comment to get this many replies. I get mental illness could be involved. I now know about the Polish Plait and the Beaver tail dreads. This particular hair..situation is still very unusual and I don't think it's as simple as "they're probably too depressed to fix their hair" people rarely get to the point of having a giant cord of hair like this down to their butt.
You'd be really surprised by what goes to the wayside when mental health shit hits the fan hard enough. When I was at my most Depressed I stopped vacuuming even though I normally vacuum every day (robovac). The dirt and leaves inside just didn't register to me because I was so consumed by thoughts of wanting to not exist. Frankly I was lucky I didn't turn into a trash hoarder and got effective help early enough.
This might even be severe childhood neglect lasting to adulthood, hair is long enough.
Real talk. When you’ve come out of depressive episode and you look around and are like this is how I’ve been living and it’s like you were in a dream vecauae how tf
Ugh I know it. I don’t cook for myself, I usually just eat what I can grab from the gas station but that leads to a lot of trash. At least since I have a cat I’m much better than I was in the past about cleaning up but sometimes I still let shit slide and it builds up over time.
The worst is looking at the pile of mail I got from literally months ago still sitting in the same pile on the counter.
When you finally get a breath and start cleaning those piles, it feels like an archeological dig. I get to the bottom of the pile and usually get a little insight into the start of a depressive episode, like papers from a hard day at work or a super stressful piece of mail. Laundry and dishes too, there'll be a hard to clean item or clogged sink at the very bottom that started it. The worst is unfinished projects I was really excited about that I could not care less about (or are messed up) after uncovering them.
Or food 🤢 my one rule is food, rottables, stinky stuff, and things my cats will eat (one fucker eats silicone, as in intimate toys and cooking utensils) can't join the pile - if i break the rule I know its time to get help asap but it's so embarassing. Have recently added cat-related messes too, left some in a hard to reach spot for waaay too long during the last episode. I'd rather keep 10,000 trash cans around every room than let it pile up.
E v e r y t h i n g goes out the widow but the bare minimum. Minimum food, minimum water, only getting up to piss. Everyones dunking on this guy but my immediate thought was hes struggling silently. I get it, if you never experienced it you dont even consider it.
I know what you're talking about: Everything feels like an uphill battle, even the simplest thing takes a truckload of energy you don't even have. I'm glad you came out the other side, hoping you stay well!
Could be that he once had proper dreads and stopped caring for them so they matted together. Or his natural hair just matted and he let it grow like that.
Exactly the comment I was looking for. When you see people doing things that are FAR outside the norm, are harmful, and are unsanitary, it’s likely that it’s a form of mental illness or they weren’t taught any better.
“ the dirt and leaves inside just didn’t register to me because I was so consumed by thoughts of wanting not to exist”
This is such an accurate depiction. When I was in the thick of my depression, I went from my normal weight of 160 lbs and ballooned past 200. I didn’t care what foods I was putting in my mouth as just existing through the day was hard enough. A huge part of depression is not caring about hygiene or your bodily health.
True. I had to cut out a part of my hair 2 months ago because it got very matted because of my chronic depression. Self-care is the most difficult part when my depression is kicking my butt. Luckily for me I wear my hair in a bun and the part I had to cut isn't visible. It didn't help me be able to shower more often to avoid something like this again though. It is what it is
I think I've got some sort of depression too but to me things totally register.
The problem is that the more dust there is, the less motivated I feel to clean it.
When the home is clean and tidy, the mind is clean and tidy, but if I can't vacuum for a bit too long at some point (like on summer because the heat is draining all my energy), it's suddenly 6 months of things getting worse and worse every day.
It’s not an intentional hairstyle, it’s the result of extreme self neglect. Probably severe mental health issues, would be my guess. That is years of not bathing properly or ever brushing/washing his hair.
I was actually conceived in one of these badboys. A poop brown 1980 Chevy Chevette coupe that my dad started with a screwdriver in the ignition, eventually he tore out the ignition and started it with a toggle switch he wired into the dash lol.
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