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i feel like i have hit rock bottom
Submitted by kristea1 on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 11:01
i started pulling out my eyelashes and eyebrows when I was about 12 or 13.
I pulled them all out in the summer after 7th grade, and I was humiliated, but somehow I ended it by the end of 8th grade and for all of freshman year I had beautiful eyelashes and i got complimented on them all the time.
I was having the best time of my life, I was happy, I had a great boyfriend who I loved and that was going great... but for some reason, it started again.
Its been over a year now that I started pulling again.
I went through my whole sophomore year with no eyelashes, it was one of the most embarassing things ever, especially when people would notice and say out loud in the lunch line or something
'YOU HAVE NO EYELASHES, EW WHAT THE HELL?'
I was finally starting to almost stop, I had a few long lashes and a lot of stubbly ones on the top of my eye and a lot of stubbly ones on the bottom of my eye, i was so excited that I might be able to start a new year of school with eyelashes.
but no, i was lying in bed the other night and BOOM
all of the progress I had done was gone.
I can't stand looking at myself in the mirror anymore.
I have tried going to therapists, and my mom wont put me on medication because she thinks I'm just doing it for attention and tells me
'JUST STOP, its that simple'
no mom, its not that simple
I need some help from all of you out there, who's willing to help?
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oh i would be willing to
oh i would be willing to help! i just don't really know what to say because i am struggling with pulling my hair out too. but on my scalp. that so cruel of your mom to say and i know how annoying it is when people think that! and those school kids in the lunch line?! ugh what LOSERS!! that's SO MEAN!! what if you had cancer or something and your eyelashes were the first thing to fall out from the treatment!! having trich is just as much a reason to sympathize! just so you know, you are still beautiful because you are seeking help and are trying the best you can! it's hard!! and all of your progress isn't gone, it's not like every time you make a streak and break it that it's over. you work towards your goal, you may have some slip ups, maybe full on relapses, but you still have the experience of the streak. you have the knowledge. i wish i could say something more helpful!!
stay strong!