Eye Seal

Eye Seal is a liquid that, when mixed with eyeshadows, makes them waterproof. One drop of eyeseal, mixed with chosen eyeshadow, makes it waterproof and it does not smudge. I used it particularly with black eyeshadow, and with a very thin brush, applied it along my lash-line (or where the lashes should be) when I went on vacation. Even after rubbing my eyes from the water, the liner remained and did not smudge one bit.

Highly recommended product for Trichsters. This makes it possible to go swimming and do other activities (with profuse sweating).

It's so difficult.

You desperately want to talk to someone about it. Someone who gets it. Someone who can listen and understand exactly what you are going through. Yet no matter how many chat rooms we look for, or forums in which we post, it just doesn't seem enough.

We need AA meetings for Trichsters. Friends don't get it, family doesn't get it. Only fellow trichsters can really understand the depression, the shame and embarrassment, the loneliness and the anger and mix of emotions that comes with pulling and the having the deal with yourself not being able to deal with it.

It's so complicated and simple and so difficult to convey the feelings, especially in cases where there are other issues that contribute.

I want us all to remember that we are all in this together. Even if no one else knows that you have this secret, I understand you. We have all been there if we haven't yet left that dark, humiliating, cold corner of a place where we don't understand why we are doing what we are doing, or why we can't understand ourselves.

We get you. We have all been there. We are all in this together.

Stimulus Regulation Model of Trichotillomania

"It is my belief that in those who suffer from TTM and similar behaviors, the mechanisms that are supposed to balance internal levels of stress within the nervous system do not appear to be working properly. This is most likely the result of an underlying genetic predisposition, and one that acts through the serotonin and sometimes the dopamine systems of the brain. It has always been my observation that people pull when they are either overstimulated (due to stress or either positive or negative excitement) or understimulated (due to being bored or physically inactive). It would appear that pulling might therefore be an external attempt on the part of a genetically prone individual to regulate an internal state of sensory imbalance. It is truly ironic that something like TTM could satisfy a biological need and yet be so destructive at the same time."

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Miracle Oil to reduce pulling

It has been found that Miracle Oil containing hemp seed oil, tee tree oil and vitamin E helps in reducing the sensation (on the skin itself) to pull. It also helps heal and reduce soars as a result of constant itching and plucking.