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Monster in the Mirror

cigarettesandnightmares: I wrote a poem about my experience, you can read it here.

http://cigarettesandnightmares.tumblr.com/post/15315589308/monster-in-the-mirror#notes-container

Trichotillomania. Do you know what that is? My computer is showing a little red line under the word, the dictionary doesn’t even know what it is, but I do. You wouldn’t blame someone for having Tourette’s, would you? Yet everyone thinks it is so very scary and freaky for someone to have trichotillomania. The reason for that is because this disorder is not known of at all. This disorder can become life changing, mostly for the bad. I personally have been suffering for almost 2 years now, and all my dreams about becoming a model have gone out the window. My life feels like it is in shambles, all from this disease that I can’t control. I feel as though I can’t admit to anyone that I have this problem, which is normally the first step to recovery because no one knows anything about it, and they will just judge me. If trichotillomania could be more known about, like depression and OCD, and even tourette’s, then I might just have a fighting chance at getting over it. I know people that have suffered from this disease for 20 years, and their best friends, their boyfriends, their own parents still don’t know about it. I am 18 years old, at the height of my beauty and yet I have no hair on my face, and I look like an alien, so you can use your common sense to think about how I might feel. No one should be suffering about this by themselves. It took me a year to learn that what I was doing to myself was an actual disorder, and I have met several girls who have trichotillomania and they didn’t know it was a thing either. I want trichotillomania to become known to the world, I want to teach the world and make a difference, so together we can conquer this disease that is trying so hard to conquer us. We need a way to make a stand nationally to reach out to all other girls and boys across the country to let them know that they are not alone, and also to raise awareness in the non afflicted community so the afflicted can feel less judged.

FUCKTRICH NAME-CHANGE

Hi, everyone!

The fabulous website trich.org has agreed to host this blog on its website and its facebook page, pending a name change to this blog. The URL/tumblr name for this blog is no longer fucktrich, but trich-support.tumblr.com. Same blog, same concept, same community, different name. This is a great opportunity! Thank you to everyone who has joined so far, and I look forward to talking with you all more. We are building a beautiful community, and I’m excited about where the blog is heading. And, regardless of the name change, fuck trich.

Love,

Annie Belle

P.s. Another day pull-free! :0) Yay!

To p-harmony:

I commend your bravery in sharing with us all your struggle with trichotillomania. I am so sorry to hear that you have been crying, and that so many overwhelmingly stressful things have happened in your young life. I understand how overwhelming life can be - even at the age of 12, and, although many of your experiences have never happened to me personally, I also had quite a stressful life at the age of 12. Understand this, if nothing else: you are never without hope. You CAN get better, and you WILL get better one day, and that day may not be tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day, or even the one after that. But you will get better some day, and you can start getting better today. You sound so brave and so strong, and I believe in your ability to overcome trichotillomania, and so does everyone else here in this community. If you ever need anything please write - to me, or to someone else on here. I recommend that you follow the “trich” tag, because there are many others on tumblr who are suffering in the same way as you are, and that may help you to feel less alone. I am almost certain that anyone on tumblr with trichotillomania would never deny the opportunity to comfort another person struggling with this terrible disorder. 

Never hesitate to ask questions or share stories or thoughts or problems you’re having. I am here, and so are many others! Thank you for your submission. How about we both try really, really hard today to keep our hands away from our hair. Let’s try to keep our hands and minds busy. Sound like a deal?

Thanks again for being so brave! <3

12 Years old & Hopeless

p-harmony: Well, I started doing this when I was…9. I have always had really bad anxiety and I’ve always had a sense of not feeling apart of the community. Earlier this year my mum told me about Trichotillomania, we looked it up on the internet. Every night I cry because my eyes hurt SO much. Alot of things have overwelmed me in my life, my grandfather died, my house flooded, my grandmother has breast cancer, my uncle has schizophrenia and I just have so much on my mind, that when I get so stressed out I start to do it. I am ashamed of my illness, but I am trying to fight it…even when I’m only 12 years old.   

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Always accepting submissions for stories, pictures, thoughts, questions, etc. related to trich. Thank you to everyone who has submitted, and I encourage many more of you to do so. If you have already submitted, you are always more than welcome to continue submitting! Let’s keep building our community :0) You are not alone!

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