Apparently eating certain types of foods reduce the urges we get to pull, whereas other foods (such as chocolate) increase hair pulling. Hmmm.... what do you think?
http://www.trichotillomania.co.uk/Info/Food.htm
"Some consider trichotillomania to be an allergic reaction to the Mallesezia-yeast and that certain foods encourage growth of this yeast in the body. This causes an urge with some people to pull out their own hair."
"Psychoanalysts have suggested that pulling out hair is related to erotic wishes or unresolved life conflicts, or that hair pulling releases unsatisfied sexual tension or substitutes for masturbation. Other theories have suggested that hair pulling is an aggressive reaction against feelings of grief or rage or even against feelings of being deserted or unloved. "
Source:
http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C609743.html
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I think It's bull..
ReplyDeleteI pull when depression gets me down...
ReplyDeleteDepression gets me down when I pull...
It's a vicious cycle.
Throughout my entire lifetime I have personally come across only ONE person with this disorder. Maybe if I could relate to just five or ten people I could somehow accept my disorder with more grace, but it's a daily battle.
I used to get frustrated solely with myself and my compulsive urges to pull. I would curse myself for my inability to stop. I'm every bit as self-loathing today, but now my anger and animosity has extended beyond myself and is directed toward the rest of the world.
I hate looking around a room full of other humans and seeing full, dense eyebrows and lashes. I hate waking up every day knowing that I will have to go out and stare people in the eye, and unless the person is legally blind, it will be fairly obvious the difference between me and everyone else.
Why can't I just have a slightly different nose? Everyone has a different nose, and it is socially accepted to have a big or small or arched or straight nose. But, come on, pretty much everybody has eyebrows, from the businessman who comes in for his morning cup of coffee down to the homeless man on the corner. Count the number of people you see in your day that do NOT have eyebrows.
It's like wearing a scarlet A around my neck everywhere I go. The gas station attendent sees it. The store clerk sees it. My friend sees it. The beautiful girl I'd love to ask out sees it. It sets me apart from the rest of the world in a very, very odd way. The de facto standard of face-to-face communication is eye contact, and thus everyone I talk to throughout my day (even for a fleeting second) has time to notice my scarlet letter.
But, I can't just take it off. On my least stressful, happiest, pull-free day, I'm still trapped wearing the letter. I can push through one day, a second, and maybe even a third, but eventually something will trigger a negative mood that tightens the noose around my neck even further. That scarlet letter just doesn't want to come off.
MotherPlucker you are NOT alone. There are millions of us, but because it's so socially "freaky" and uncommon, we have become experts at hiding it.
ReplyDeleteI know that it is so normal in anyone else's daily life, and I understand entirely the constant thought obsession that rapes your brain every time you are talking with someone. I go through the same.
Your eyelashes do NOT define you. Your lack of eyebrows do NOT represent ANY part of you, only your eyebrows and your eyebrows alone.
What are eyebrows anyway? Just a line of hairs above our eyes that keep the sweat from dripping into our eyes. Unfortunately it has become a beauty accessory but you know what? You don't need eyebrows to be beautiful, and you know why? You have the uncontrollable impulse to pull, and this renders you without eyebrows and lashes. But you still have the courage to walk out that door everyday, and life a "normal" life. This is because trich does NOT define you, and you prove this to yourself everyday when you walk out that door.
It will not confine you. So what we are a bit more hairless? If people care so much about our eyesbrows and lashes, then consider Trichotillomania a friend who helps filter the shallowness from your life.
MotherPlucker I understand 200% the thoughts you have, I have them too, constantly and continuously on an obsessive level. But I don't want you to EVER feel alone, because you never were and never will be. <3