My 9 Year Old as Trichs {

Thanks for the replies they have been really helpful.

Myself and my wife are now helping our daughter to find ways of hiding the bald patches with various hairstyles etc, we have accepted she has trichs and we need to help her in anyway we can. We thought we where helping with a head band but this actually gave her licence to pull more. The next stage is a bandana but this will obviously give more scope for pulling. We now have an agreement with our daughter that when ever she wants to talk we will stop whatever we are doing and listen to what she has to say. In the past we would probably have said "i am busy ask / come see me later" Hopefully by listening {which is sometimes the hardest thing to do} and being there will help her through each day. She is actually 3 days clear of pulling which is great news, however we know it is a long road we need to go down.

Anyway this is my therapy session over and i feel a lot better for sending this post.

Kind regards
Mark

Hey,

Ok, i now that im not a parent or grown up or anything...im only 13 years old and i suffer from it too....and believe it or not...i started trichs the exact same way as ur daughter! i had nits and i would've spent hours each day pulling and pulling my hair...until i was bald at the front bit....it was hideous, i could never look in the mirror! everytime i look in the mirror, i see an ugly monster staring back.......=( well... thats my story....

Well i just wanna say that i guess you should really talk to your daughter....i mean...you would help her heaps!!
I'd always wish that MY mum was just as caring as you, no im not saying she doesn't....she does but she just doesnt even know that trich even exist... I've been to tonnes of doctors and stuff but they didnt even help a tiny bit, they gave me heaps of medications which never works..... To be honest...im sufferering through this alone...well in my life...my family doesnt understand it...well i don't even think they even know about this condition...my friends doesnt....no one around me does... all i ever wished was that i could have someone, just someone who understands how i feel and help me through it...someone that i can talk to....but...no...there was no one...i feel really alone and unwanted...sometimes i just wished that i could just die...*giggle* especially at school cause i am wearing a bandana and im the only one wearing it out of about 1000 students....i get stares wherever i go....its a toally nightmare....

=) anyways....yeh...you should really support your daughter, its what all trich sufferers needs the most...
^.= Thanks for letting my express and talk about my feelings....and i hope your beautiful daughter recovers!!

Its important you keep talking about it with her beceause im 27 now and done this since i was ten. No body knew about what i was doing and wish someone would have caught ealier on when i was found out i was shouted at and punished by being grounded, so sat in my room on my own upset i pulled my hair out. I have about a centimetre of hair growth on the whole of the scalp and i hate it. She does need a lot of help and its hard to watch her 24 7 but try to keep her as busy as you can. I see a phycologist once a week now and find that having no help is the main reason for the length of time i ve done this, it s like some one stopping smoking just so you know how hard it is for her. I started putting on make up and taking it off again tryin g new and funky ideas and the same with hair styles. Try to make light of it and just be there for her and make it fun to stop. JUST A QUICK TIP USE ALL THE VOLUMIZING SHAMPOOS AND PRODUCTS AND MATTING POWDER IS FAB!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN ONLY GET IT FROM SALONS.

KEEP SMILING
IZZY X