How many of you guys had a rough life growing up?
Weither it be, Abusive parent, getting molested by a family member,rape,....
I recently got in touch with someone who had the same thing we have. She told me, that maybe I had went through something like her. She wrote me about how she was molested asa child.
I found that weird, because I had also been molested. She no longer has trich.
So I wanted to know, if anyone else has went through this childhood things?
Thanks
i posted about this when i first started.
i was molested as a child. trich usually starts as a reaction to something stressful, traumatizing and OUT OF OUR CONTROL. like sexual abuse, losing a parent, physical abuse. it's similar to the way a child will become bulimic or anorexic. the one thing you can control is your body and its appearance.
some stop eating. some over eat. we pull.i dont knwo why... but thats just where it starts.
There was some emotional abuse in my home growing up, but there was a lot of tension in my home when I was around 10 years old and thats when the trich started. For some reason, I never put that together.
I started pulling at the age of 16...about 1-2 months after I started taking my 1st anti-depressant, Prozac. I researched Trich. and Prozac, at the time, and it said that 1% of patients who take Prozac, will become OCD. I always blamed the drug. It just seemed too coincidental that it started so soon after starting the new med. I mean other than that, yes I had a very stressful childhood with my ex-step-dad being so controlling and mentally abusive throughout the childhood...among other things I'd rather not go into.
hi I'm new to the group
I am 23 and have had TTM since I was 11 or 12- I started pulling my eyelashes out one night after my mom had compared my sister's (long thick lashes) to mine (short straight "asian" eyelashes) I remember touching them and pulling one out to see how short it was. HOWEVER there was alot going on at home at this time- I had an alcholic father and a mother that was secretly battling cancer- alot of tension all around.
Now I no longer touch my eyelashes or eyebrows at all- I pull from my head (on the part to the left only) and my pubic area.
I started pulling when I was 6, not long after I was singled out in class by an emotionally abusive teacher. She would purposely humiliate me and yell at me in front of everyone, and I'm not sure why even to this day. However, there were other stress factors (my dad was military so we moved around a lot, my mom is an alcoholic, etc.) and as far as I can tell I first pulled during a moment of understimulation.
I just remember sitting on the toilet, realizing I'd been doing it, and I jumped up and looked in the mirror. I was horrified to see a bald spot on my lashline. I panicked, thinking I'd get in big trouble, and sure enough almost immediately after I emerged from the bathroom my mom grabbed me by the chin and started interrogating me.
All through my childhood and teen years, my parents would punish me, give me deadlines to grow out my lashes & brows or I'd be grounded, made me write essays on why I did this to myself, all because they didn't know I had a disorder. To this day, no one will really talk to me about it, and I like to think that it's because they're ashamed of what they put me through.
My son has Trich
- motheronthego4
on Sep. 24, 2008 at 1:54 PM