POSTED BY: mspennylane
There are many weird and wonderful things that people do when they have trich, but are they really so weird? I hadn’t heard of some of them before, but really they all come down to the same thing.
Mirrors: The mirror can be a trichster’s worst enemy – either searching for those hairs that need to be pulled, or seeing how you look and feeling bad about it.
I am glad to say that I have never done this. However, recently I find myself trying to study my hair a bit more in the mirror to see if I have any bald patch or thinning areas. I am very wary though of doing this obsessively so I try to avoid it as much as I can. And it also helps to avoid it, as there is no point in studying what I look like so much that I make myself feel bad. Sometimes this is easier said that done!
Do you study your hair? Find specific hairs or just to see how it looks?
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.
