Everyone has bad hair days, and I have two types of bad hair day. One is the usual type – something is just wrong about the hair, it won’t do what I want, it looks BAD. Two is the bad hair day associated with trichotillomania. In other words it isn’t my hair’s fault that it’s bad, but it is my fault for pulling it.
Today I have pulled a lot of hairs. Not only this but my hair is getting really fluffy. No bald patches, just a bit fluffy at the top. Otherwise I have a lot of hair which is always a good thing.
I can’t tell when the second type of bad hair day is going to happen, but when I have the first type my hair usually just doesn’t feel nice and soft when I wash it, and it’s downhill from there….
What are the features of your bad hair day?
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My name's Penny, and I started OnTrich (a trichotillomania blog) to try and raise awareness about hair pulling, and also as a way to help me deal with my own pulling. I'm a 23 year old girl from the UK and I've been pulling for 13 years. Get in touch if you want to chat or need any help - I love meeting people here.
I have bad hair days… with my eyelashes. I just keep pulling and pulling and pulling until every one of them is gone. It’s so frustrating. But the more I wish my impulse away, the more I HAVE got to pull just ONE more eyelash. Just ONE eyelash is out of place… and then it’s the next, … and then it’s the remaining small group of eyelashes that remain. They’re starting to burn at the tips and I need to get the roots out of my skin. Finally, I stare at myself in the mirror, to annoyed with myself to think that I can ever recover.
just constantly, i can’t help doing it, it’s at certain points of my hair, like around my forehead and where the crown of my hair is and then when i change my parting, i go for the hairs along the parting and the some days i’ll get bored with them and i’ll change it to my eyebrows, i’ve keep making like stupid bald patches in them from where i like self pluck them … they look really uneven atm … sometimes my eyelashes too, they just feel like they NEED to come out, same with like hairs on my arms sometimes, they just need to come out … i need help
Kate – It is so hard when we get in those moods when we think it isn’t possible or it’s too much effort. I sometimes thing ‘why should I stop? Why shouldn’t I just be allowed to have funny hair’ but it is really hard to gather up the strength to think ‘just stop’. I hope you find some methods that work for you. Persoanlly, blogging and talking online has helped me so much. So feel free to email or come back and comment whenever you need to vent. In real life I can feel kind of alone, but online I am definitely not
Carly – I understand what you mean. I usually go for around my parting and crown too, which makes it more noticeable I find. I don’t pluck my eyebrows, but I used to and once pulled a whole one out almost completely. It is so hard, but I hope you find some people you can talk to about it. I don’t like talking about it in real life, so I use this blog and forums to say what I want. Feel free to email or comment again if you just need to vent about it… it’s hard but it makes it a bit easier
I hate it when people notice my bald spot! It sucks having to make up these ridiculous stories to try to hide the fact that I have this disease. I know its probably better to tell people that you have it but Im in high school and if i tell people then they will either start treating me differently or just stop getting around me. I dont want to be treated differently just because i pull my hair out
The craziest story I told somebody was that I was playing with a match and i wasnt paying attention and i got the match really close to my eyes and it burned all my eye lashes off and then I told somebody that my hair got stuck in my hair dryer and it ripped a bunch of my hair out
I feel like im living a lie everyday because im putting on my fake eye lashes and coloring in a bald spot with eye liner and most people dont even know