A Trichster's Tricks Never End

By my sixteenth birthday, things stirred up even more. I had pulled out a lot of my eyelashes, and my mom took notice one day during a trip to the store. A fight started between us in the middle of one of the aisles. Instead of keeping it at the store and trying to resolve it ourselves, my mom... Sign in to see full entry.

When I finally built up enough courage to approach the dean about it, things did not work as planned. Not even close. Not only did Chris and his comrades start up again, but the dean stupidly handed him the list of witnesses I had written for her, most of which were friends with both of us. Chris... Sign in to see full entry.

After I turned fourteen, I started volunteering for a private humane society. I made some new friends that were supportive and faithful to me. The experience helped me grow, but at the same time I was still pulling just about every day. Fighting with my parental units became more frequent, mostly... Sign in to see full entry.

Two things you should know about me: I have Trichotillomania and I love puns. So it's a trichy business to not roll your eyes at me. But don't get triched out at my trichster tendencies. Let me rewind my life back to when I was twelve years old, which was when the pulling first began. I think it... Sign in to see full entry.

Trichotillomania. It’s a very big word, I know. So what is it? The best way to describe it is that it is an impulse control disorder, much like Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (O.C.D.), that causes its sufferers to pull out their hair. Its cause is unknown. It may be genetic, it may be some weird... Sign in to see full entry.