4. Why should I become involved in the Foundation?

In numbers, there's more than safety. There's strength, comfort, help, friendship, and action in numbers, too. The National Alopecia Areata Foundation brings together thousands with alopecia areata worldwide to reassure one another, spur research, and bring an end to this disease. If you have alopecia areata, the Foundation can help you, you can help the Foundation, and you can help yourself.

Help yourself by sharing. It may seem you are the only person in the world with alopecia areata, but you are not. Help yourself by sharing with others like you. You have no idea what a comfort such sharing can be. Talk and listen to people who understand; know you are not alone; face the sometimes hostile world bolstered by the friendship of others who care. When you feel comfortable with yourself in dealing with this disease continue to help others who need help to cope with it.