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Hello!
Honestly, I have never once ever have talked about this in person.. or online.
I'm 22 years old. and I have been doing this since I was 12 years old.
I have no idea how it all started, or why.
It first started out with my eyelashes. I vaguely remembering pulling them out at that young of age.
I can't even remeber why or anything. i remember my mother saying stuff to me... and i was so embarssed and ashamed of it. I would never talk about it though.
over time.. i started with my eyebrows, along with my eyebrows. then to my scalp.
I can proudly say that 3 years ago.. for the first time since i was 12 years old.. I had all my eyelashes..and I felt beautiful.. because i could wear mascera. I dont know why all of a sudden i started pulling again. but i did. and its been the worse it has ever been throughout the years. i have 0 eyelashes and 0 eyebrows. and there is a tiny bald area on my scalp.
I have to make sure every morning i leave my room without forgetting to draw my eyebrows on.. so nobody sees. sleeping over at my friends or going in hotels with my friends.. is a nightmare. i keep a mirror and make right beside me.. and i barely sleep. because im terrfied for somebody to find out who i really am.
I think i have alot of pain from this. I look at myself in the wierd.. so frustrated with hatred of myself wondering what the hell am i doing. i am disguting.. why cant i stop!!!
i use to make goals.. small goals that i could acheieve.. but eventually they never went through.
its almost that i have given up hope.
i live in canada.. in a small city.. with no support/help around. i have done the research trust me. i really need to see somebody.. and i have known i had to for a long time. but i know in order to get the proper help im going to have to go somewhere that somebody is very well educated with this. and i know i wouldnt beable to afford it and what not.
so im left here wondering.. what am i going to do. will i ever be pretty? will i ever stop hating the way i look? well i ever get to stop drawing my eyebrows? and will i ever be able to swim again?


your story truly touched me.
your story truly touched me. because of how many simmilarities we have.
i am 16.. ive had trich for a few years.
when it started i rly didnt even think of it as a disease. jus something i did.
when i first got it it was horrible.. i completely plucked out my eyelashes and eyebrows.
it went on like that for 2 years.. no eyelashes or eyebrow..
then my family was supposed to move.. so i set a goal for myself..
by the time i was at my new location i would let all the hairs grow back
i actually completed this goal.
i felt amazingg. i actually got to wear makeup and jus felt so good
for about a year (my freshman year in highschool) i didnt pluck the noticble areas. and i just felt great looking at myself
then wen my sophmore year started something triggered it again.. i started to pluck out my eyelashes again.. and for that whole year i have been on and off plucking them out.. also i began plcuking out head hairs right in the front.. so its rly noticible..
i do whatever it takes to cover up what ive done..
i put brown eyeliner in my hair.. so you cant see the bald spots
and i dont leave my room w/o wearing darkeyeliner.. so my strange eyelashes arent noticible
none of my friends kno.. im too ashamed.
i hate living with this disease.. when my mom noticed my problem one day she made me feel horribe about it
saying that im putting more stress on her and just want attention.. it was horrible
i just want it to stop. i also try to set up goalss.. but they never work. now i just try to only pluck areas that arent noticible to everyone.
i wonder the same things as you every single day of my life. everytime i look in the mirror. everytime a hang out with friends with beautiful lashes. everytime i pull out another hair i feel worse about myself.
if u would like to email me..
if u would like to email me.. to my otmail.. maybe we can help each other thorugh this? because.. your comment meant alot to me. ididnt think someday actually felt the same as mee.. etc.
wb soon :) thanks for reading
yess.. i would def like to
yess.. i would def like to email you :)
but im not sure what otmail is (hotmail maybe?).... ha
and yes, i feel the same as you every single day
lol sorry i meant hotmail.
lol sorry i meant hotmail. typooo!
you can email me at
you can email me at dianalov3sy0u@yahoo.com :)