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<blockquote data-quote="Estherfromjerusalem" data-source="post: 440964" data-attributes="member: 77"><p>Trich is very very hard to control. I went to a support group that I saw advertised, for a few meetings, but it didn't help. My very earliest memory is connected with trich, at the age of four. And I'm not aware of feeling anxiety at that time of my life. In fact, with hindsight I think I felt very secure. Since my grandparents were all killed in the Holocaust, my parents did everything they could to provide me and my two sisters with as normal a life as possible. We were poor, but happy. At least, that's what it seems to me now looking back. But maybe I felt the tensions without being consciously aware of them. Because with hindsight now, I realise that my mother was depressed more or less all her life, until her sixties. But then, it's logical. She missed her parents and the life she had left behind. That's the only explanation I can find for feeling anxiety. My little sister bit her nails, and sucked her thumb, well into her adulthood. I think she stopped sucking her thumb after her second child was born (!!!). My older sister picked at the skin around her nails. My mother bit her nails too -- she only stopped that when she was on oxygen in the hospital, when she couldn't bite anything. And then suddenly she had nails. It was funny, we had a good laugh about that. And when she came out of hospital she didn't got back to biting her nails so for the last year or so of her life she had lovely nails! Medical science puts nail-biting and hair-pulling into the same category of disorders. It's a disorder. Oh boy, maybe my difficult child's ODD is a disorder inherited from my disorder.!!!! Just joking.</p><p></p><p>I still pull my hair out. Less than before, but I do. I think I have weakened my hair, because I used to have lovely thick hair, and now it is thin and horrible. Maybe it's age-related too. I don't know. It is depressing not to have a lovely head of hair, and I truly understand Mattsmom. It is wonderful that you have managed to re-grow it so well and so thick. I am envious. Still, you are so much younger than I am. Good for you, I'm happy for you.</p><p></p><p>Love, Esther</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Estherfromjerusalem, post: 440964, member: 77"] Trich is very very hard to control. I went to a support group that I saw advertised, for a few meetings, but it didn't help. My very earliest memory is connected with trich, at the age of four. And I'm not aware of feeling anxiety at that time of my life. In fact, with hindsight I think I felt very secure. Since my grandparents were all killed in the Holocaust, my parents did everything they could to provide me and my two sisters with as normal a life as possible. We were poor, but happy. At least, that's what it seems to me now looking back. But maybe I felt the tensions without being consciously aware of them. Because with hindsight now, I realise that my mother was depressed more or less all her life, until her sixties. But then, it's logical. She missed her parents and the life she had left behind. That's the only explanation I can find for feeling anxiety. My little sister bit her nails, and sucked her thumb, well into her adulthood. I think she stopped sucking her thumb after her second child was born (!!!). My older sister picked at the skin around her nails. My mother bit her nails too -- she only stopped that when she was on oxygen in the hospital, when she couldn't bite anything. And then suddenly she had nails. It was funny, we had a good laugh about that. And when she came out of hospital she didn't got back to biting her nails so for the last year or so of her life she had lovely nails! Medical science puts nail-biting and hair-pulling into the same category of disorders. It's a disorder. Oh boy, maybe my difficult child's ODD is a disorder inherited from my disorder.!!!! Just joking. I still pull my hair out. Less than before, but I do. I think I have weakened my hair, because I used to have lovely thick hair, and now it is thin and horrible. Maybe it's age-related too. I don't know. It is depressing not to have a lovely head of hair, and I truly understand Mattsmom. It is wonderful that you have managed to re-grow it so well and so thick. I am envious. Still, you are so much younger than I am. Good for you, I'm happy for you. Love, Esther [/QUOTE]
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