Information about trichotillomania – symptoms, triggers, facts and figures.
“I secretly kinda hope I have cancer, so I’ll have a socially acceptable reason to shave my head.” I actually said those words out loud last week while waiting for the pathology report to return from my lymph node surgery. Seriously? I would rather have cancer than trichotillomania. What. The. Hell???????!!!!!!!!! I have known some … read more
I am scared. I began this blog thing with one goal in mind. It wasn’t to “find myself.” It wasn’t even to learn to love myself. It wasn’t to share my hopes and dreams and goals and fears and emotions, blah blah blah-dee blah blah blah. My plan was to build up to the point … read more
What doesn’t kill you… Sometimes I want to scream at God, “I’m strong enough, already!” I have grown so weary of evil. There is no part of this world that it hasn’t touched. No safe place exists where it cannot reach. Evil, darkness, pain and suffering inhabit every corner, every nuance of my conscious life, … read more
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
Conversations about trich make me want to pull my hair out. (See what I did there? It’s like a double-entendre!) Today I had a great conversation with a friend about this little project I’ve started. “Project” is such a stupid way to describe this, but what else am I supposed to call it? Maybe “self-humiliating, … read more
