any advice...
I'm 16. I've had trich since 3rd grade. it's been a long hard battle with this awful (I say out of anger) disorder. I mainly pull my eyelashes and eyebrows, last year I started pulling hair from the side of my scalp, but I stopped after a couple months and have been pull free since!! however, my pulling with my eyelashes and eyebrows has remained the same. it's two steps forward and one step back, it's exhausting.. we all know that. it's something nobody fully understands, so many people suffer yet people don't help. because we're all scared to show who we really are. we're different.. and I think that's what gets me. I'm 16 and look nothing like my other friends, until I cover my face in makeup. but I still can't do things that they do. I can't swim without worrying about my makeup coming off, I can't put my hair up yet because my hair on the sides is still growing. It's hard. and I want to stop but I don't know how. when I start doing good I have a relapse and I start from step 1. saying all of this makes it better and typing and expressing how I feel with people who go through the same thing helps a lot. if anyone has any advice that would help me, please do tell. thank you!!
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I sympathize with you! I've been there and I struggle daily. For me it was all about keeping my hands busy. Some ppl use stress balls and others use putty in order to keep you from pulling for me personally. I began making jewelry, doing nails, and all sorts of activities even though I'm naturally artistic, practice made perfect & by no means am I perfect but each time I make something or create I get better until I'm the best at it out of all of the ppl I know. I wish you good luck I do. I know what it feels like to be embarrassed by the area where you pick. I started picking and when is get ingrown hairs if pick using other tools which resulted in such unsightly scars. If u must do it, choose another place . being bald once changed my picking habits. I do it still but I stop after 5 min or so when I think of all the consequences ill have to live through after. Summers just about over . I hadn't gotten into a pool due to my picking. If be the center of attention but for all the wrong reason. I hope this helps.