The Blahs

I’m in an icky mood.  I just feel blah.  I can’t put any further description to it, but I don’t particularly like it.  My mood has been all over the place the past couple days.  I’m irritable and grumpy and lazy.  I can’t figure out why and it is getting on my nerves.  If anything, [...]

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Anger

Aside from the usual pulling issues, anger has been my problem this week.  Each time I take a shower, I find myself consumed with anger and sadness that the “stylist” cut off so much more length than she was supposed to.  I shampoo my hair and there is just nothing there where it should be.
I [...]

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Aaargghhh :-(

I’m really really sad.  I went to get my hair trimmed up today and she didn’t do what I wanted at all.  My husband says “don’t worry it will grow back.”  I know that in theory it will.  I have TTM though.  That makes the whole growing thing a whole lot harder.  I worked for [...]

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Medication Study: New Hope?

Olanzapine helped trichotillomania in small study.(Clinical Rounds)

Jane Salodof MacNeil . Skin & Allergy News.  March 2007 v38 i3 p61(1).

Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2007 International Medical News Group

PARIS — Trichotillomania was highly responsive to olanzapine in a small, randomized, placebo-controlled trial that suggests repetitive hair-pulling may be closer to tics and Tourette’s syndrome than to [...]

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Slacker

Yep, that would be me.  Well, not really.  I just have felt really busy lately.  My blogs have been suffering as a result.  In addition, I just haven’t had much to post about it.  The pulling is just the same old thing.  Some days are decent.  Some days are really bad.  The Effexor is helping [...]

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