Trich Adventure

I went on a hair related adventure today. I’m a little sleepy now, but check back soon to see what happened.

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Are you a member of TLC?

The Trichotillomania Learning Center is by far the biggest and best (the only?) resource for anyone with a body focused repetitive behavior like trich or skin picking. Upon becoming a member, TLC will send you a nice fat booklet of information, referrals, articles, etc.   You also receive information about trainings, conferences, the retreat, etc.
Right [...]

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Challenge Day 22

Wow, this thing is nearly half over already. Just today I feel like my head is finally clear enough to really start focusing again. One of my homeopath connections said that a cloudy head & mind seems to really be a symptom going around with the current cold or flu bug everyone in [...]

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Challenge catch up

I don’t feel like I’m doing very well with this challenge.  The past couple of days have been pretty bad.  I was sick & up all night coughing, then my husband got it worse than I had it.  We still have a whole chunk of wall missing and I haven’t even touched it for clean [...]

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Challenge Day 10-14

Wow, tomorrow this challenge will be 25% finished! Crazy.
This weekend was my birthday so I took some time away from the computer to do fun adventures with my husband.  He made up clues and took me out for lots of surprises both Friday and Saturday.
I also have a cold, which means I’ve been drinking lots [...]

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Any skin pickers out there?

If any of your have dermotillomania or chronic skin picking, there’s a new research survey that TLC would like you to fill out.
Please go to:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=CblKVYb7p76d7EGI5Pw2BQ_3d_3d%22%3EClick%20Here%20to%20take%20survey
This looks to be a pretty long survey, but is one of the first comprehensive research surveys for skin pickers and should provide valuable insight for people who are trying to [...]

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Challenge Days 8 & 9

Can we just pretend the last two days didn’t happen? Last night we ripped out most of a wall to fix the leak in the shower and treated a bunch of mildew too. My dad really did most of the work, but it is disheartening to see a hole rather than a wall [...]

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Challenge Days 4-7

We spent the weekend kayaking, visiting family friends, walking in the woods, and playing a few card games.  For the most part it was a relaxing long weekend.  Today we came home and I noticed that the area at the base of my shower looked damp (hadn’t taken a shower in there since at least [...]

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Challenge Day 3

I have 7 minutes to go and day 3 will be complete. Since I’ll be away for the weekend and around other people, I suspect the next few days should be much easier. Today was a struggle because I washed my favorite hat! I didn’t think about it and then didn’t have [...]

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TrichWorld

For those of you pullers out there that don’t have a support group nearby and would like an online community to check in with, go check out:
http://trichworld.ning.com/
This site was created by Cheryn Salazar who is a warrior in the trich world. She sells cosmetic products to help people with trich feel more comfortable in [...]

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