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Submitted by campcamp9034 on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 03:47
hi all.
okay so i am so sick of this and dont know what to do anymore. i have had trich for over a year now, and i am 14. I feel embarrased to talk to anyone about it and am so upset. i have been too tons of doctors and therapists, have taken different medications, read books, and have done every trick out there. i just want to give up, but i want my eyelashes back more than ever. i only pull from my upper lashes, since i was able to stop from my eyebrows and back of my hair. PLEASE HELP
Its very difficult to to give
Its very difficult to to give advice about this, when you have this there are no rules or guide to follow. It is a very sencitive and painful issuse and it consumse you. I think the biggest problem is wanting a quick fix and for it to just go away. I personaly think if you have pulled hair out from any where for a length of time it can take as long to stop. Iam 27 and have pulled hair from all over my body from the age of ten, at present i have about half a centimetre of hair growth on the whole of the top of my head and patches either side just above my ears. Im very frightened that if i don t stop soon it will never grow backat all, it is grey now and very weak. Iam doing it less and less because i try to keep my self busy and take my mind off wanting to pull, but the urges are very hard to ignore because it s part of what we do it our thing, our time out. This is a big thing for me to talk about it so openly but i feel im nearly there, WITH ANY HABIT THE FIRST THING IS TO ADDMIT IT. I did that when i was 19 and no one understood and because of the stigma that comes with not understanding you get branded or labled as sick! I felt sick at the time but then started to wonder why i did it and what i get from it still. Every one who has this habit has it for one reason or another no matter the reason its just a way of coping. Things that helped me
Get rid of all tweezers
Wear eye mask to bed
Put make up on and take it off again ( and be as wild as you want no one will see it.)
Try new hair styles (go wild, i used to paint my bald patches with eye makeup the same colour as my hair to hide then and see what it was like
waxing legs is great it hurts but it works
epilators are great too
cleaning and dancing and just keeping busy
clear masscara is very good too and combing lashes and eyebrows
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