Comments on: Emotional Staying Power and Trichotillomania Recovery http://blog.trich.org/2010/07/01/emotional-staying-power-and-trichotillomania-recovery/ The blog for the Trichotillomania Learning Center, seeking to end the suffering caused by hair pulling disorder, skin picking disorder, and related body-focused repetitive behaviors since 1991. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:42:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Janess http://blog.trich.org/2010/07/01/emotional-staying-power-and-trichotillomania-recovery/#comment-786 Fri, 20 May 2011 01:22:33 +0000 http://blog.trich.org/?p=229#comment-786 I feel so much happier now I unedtrsand all this. Thanks!

]]> By: Wendi http://blog.trich.org/2010/07/01/emotional-staying-power-and-trichotillomania-recovery/#comment-642 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:04:41 +0000 http://blog.trich.org/?p=229#comment-642 My 17 year old niece has trich. She was diagnosed at the age of 10. She has had a few relapses over the years but now is doing very well. Are there are tips or recommended shampoos to help her hair grow or be thicker?

]]> By: sara laursen http://blog.trich.org/2010/07/01/emotional-staying-power-and-trichotillomania-recovery/#comment-578 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:50:55 +0000 http://blog.trich.org/?p=229#comment-578 Christina, i will be thirty years old in september and i have struggled with skin picking since i was a little girl. In my very first school picture, from kindergarten, i have a big red scab on my face from my picking even then. I don’t recall the exact day or moment when i actually started pulling my hair out but it was around the same age you did, i may have been a couple years older, 15 perhaps, and i have pulled on and off (mostly on) since then. it has been a huge secret to everyone in my life and only now do i even feel that i may not be such a freak as i always thought i was. if anyone were to see me they would probably say i am very attractive, even beautiful. i have had many beaus and am married with three lovely children. i wear hats a lot of the time or pull my hair up in a clip to cover the top of my head, which is where i pull from, and jeans or pants to cover my legs even in the extreme heat of the utah summers when my picking is in full force. sometimes i go for periods when the picking and pulling are very frequent, even to the point that i think maybe this time i’ve finally conquered it! but it always starts up again. i have so many thoughts and feelings to express what’s inside me and feel like i relate so much to your own experiences. i just need to experience the healing and recovery that you have, or my own healing and recovery rather to feel like i am whole and can glory in my hair and clear skin. i long for that day with a great hope inside me and faith in jesus christ that i know will get me to that point. i feel as if i am on the cusp of a journey long anticipated. and only need to jump in now. thank you for serving all of us like you, it makes us feel we are not alone.

]]> By: Amanda http://blog.trich.org/2010/07/01/emotional-staying-power-and-trichotillomania-recovery/#comment-568 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:34:46 +0000 http://blog.trich.org/?p=229#comment-568 Hey Megan, just a thought, pulling does not make you any less of a person. Everyone struggles with somthing, this is just the thing that we struggle with.

Amanda

PS: I was at the Pittsburgh event too, wasn’t it wonderful!

]]> By: Meghan http://blog.trich.org/2010/07/01/emotional-staying-power-and-trichotillomania-recovery/#comment-565 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:14:37 +0000 http://blog.trich.org/?p=229#comment-565 Wow. This one really hit me. I too have gone through life being the “really smart but lazy” one. Papers were the worst. I high school, I just didn’t do them but still managed As and Bs. Then in college I got pretty used to handing in incomplete work and totally stressing out at the last minute. I’m great at procrastinating, but better at shutting down under stress. I’m now 27 and struggle at work and don’t know how I haven’t been fired, and these thoughts that I’m less of a person b/c of these bad habits lead to massive pulling. I struggle to accept that this is just the way I am. And that it’s ok. It’s nice knowing I’m not the only one. Thanks for everything. (I hope to come to a retreat sometime. I was at your event in Pittsburgh a few months ago and it was really a great experience.)

]]> By: Emily http://blog.trich.org/2010/07/01/emotional-staying-power-and-trichotillomania-recovery/#comment-561 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:15:09 +0000 http://blog.trich.org/?p=229#comment-561 I especially like this phrase: “I can follow the thread to discover the knot that is holding me back from being fully myself.”

Thank you for everything you share, Christina. It makes a difference. I recommended your book and website on my blog today.

]]> By: Amanda http://blog.trich.org/2010/07/01/emotional-staying-power-and-trichotillomania-recovery/#comment-536 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:58:45 +0000 http://blog.trich.org/?p=229#comment-536 Christina,

Just wanted to let you know that this post hit me right in the heart today. Some of my earliest memories of pulling are when I was trying to do some math homework in the 6th grade. I didn’t understand it, and pulled out all my eyebrows because of it. Now, 18 years later, I still pull my eyebrows and eyelashes but am in therapy and working towards freedom. I am finding out that i’m afraid to fail, so I don’t try, and then I feel bad and it all comes out as pulling behavior. All this to say that I am facing a new challenge that has me mostly terrified, and it involves going to a class for training/certification, paid for by my employer (who is also my father!). My therapist is wonderful and she helps me have the right perspective, that I am intelligent, that I can do this without pulling and that everything is going to be fine, but it still gives me a sick feeling in my stomach when I think about it. So anyway, this post spoke directly to me, and I will try to remember not to squelch those feelings of fear, but to respect them for what they are, and don’t let them win. Thank you for all that you do.

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