Maggies Hair Pulling Blog

Wow! 7 years have gone by and I forgot all about this blog. I logged in with the intention of deleting it but actually I think I’ll write something instead... My mum died nearly 5 years ago and her cancer diagnosis, illness and death were the hardest things I’ve ever experienced. It was like a whirlwind of emotion and really painful at times. Mum became our focus and centre of life and we did everything we could to care for her mentally and physically. I feel like I can breath again now though.... life is normal... ish.  I had a baby! She’s 3 and is a little miracle. Born with just one lung and other complications she amazes us everyday with how well she is. She doesn’t take any medication and can do everything that any other child can do. I still have trichotillomania. I carried on wearing hair systems for a number of years and then in 2019 I decided to shave my hair and embraced the bald look. I had scalp micropigmentation (SMP) done to give me a buzz cut look, bought some woolly...

When I started Secondary School I had no hair at all. There was a small rat tail left but mum chopped it off with scissors. A few people mistook me for a boy but apart from that it didn't cause me too much trouble. I would have expected to be bullied but surprisingly I wasn't really. I think it was worse in Primary School, I remember someones dad once referring to me as the Bald Eagel ! By year 8 I had plenty of friends and my hair was growing back. I don't know why my hair improved in Secondary School, I guess I realised that looks were quite important and so tried hard to stop pulling. After a while my hair grew long enough to wear in a pony tail, this covered a few of the bald patches and made me feel a bit more normal. I continued to wear my hair in a pony tail (with plenty of hairspray) for the the next 13 years. I had to use hairspray to keep all the spiky new hairs from sticking up. Before I pulled it out, my hair was blonde and straight, but when the new hairs grew...