Maggies Hair Pulling Blog

My Trichotillomania has now taken a major back seat! I still pull everyday and wear a permanent wig to cover up the bald patches. It's annoying to live with a hair hat 'thing' fixed to my head all the time and it gets itchy but I'm used to it so it has become normal. I can't imagine not wearing a wig now. My hair follicles have been permanently damaged by all the years of pulling so the hope of growing a full head of hair now is pretty slim. But I think I have accepted that and now trich doesn't really bother me. I used to get upset about it and frustrated but now I think there are more important things to worry about and l can still enjoy life without proper hair!! Some people have it a lot worse so out of all of the problems you can have as a human, I think hair pulling is a pretty mild one to have been dealt. Found out my mum as incurable cancer recently - this is a real problem. I would pull my arms and legs off, as well as all my hair out to fix her.

I was contacted by a media company recently who write articles for newspapers, magazines etc. they were interested in my trichotillomania story. I've done one magazine article before and thought I wanted to do more but in the back of my mind I can see people from work reading it so I declined! I'm slightly annoyed with myself as there should be more awareness of the condition, but at the same time I manage a team of people and don't want this to look like a weakness! The office environment can be rather tough and people love a bit of gossip!! When I retire in about 40 years then I might reconsider....