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She feels she's turned a corner on the road to recovery after having an Intralace System fitted at specialist salon,the Daily Record reported .
Wendy felt shocked and emotional seeing her reflection with a full head of hair.
But her treatment at Lucinda Ellery in Edinburgh has given her a much-needed confidence boost and has also helped her cut back on her hair-pulling obsession.
Wendy, who works in HR, developed trichotillomania – known as TTM – when she was aged around 11.
She said: "I didn't know what it was at the time and wasn't really aware I was doing it. For me it was just kind of a habit that started, there wasn't a reason behind it.
"Over the next couple of years, it gradually got worse until it was hard for me to hide it. I wasn't sure why I started pulling, I had a happy, healthy childhood, it seemed to be a bad habit I had developed somehow. I wasn't aware of it early on enough to stop it. The longer you do it, the harder it becomes to stop.
"It was probably in my late teens when I discovered that there was a recognised condition for what I had. I found this out through internet research but never had the confidence to admit or seek help as I always told myself I would deal with it myself. I only told my closest friends and family and we never talked about it as I always got too upset.
"People must have noticed but no one talked about it. For most of my teenage years and into my early 20s, I was able to cover up any bad areas by wearing my hair up, hoping no one would notice.
"I moved to Edinburgh for university at 17, spent a year in Australia, travelled around the world living a full and active life and although I presented a happy, outgoing exterior and people never mentioned it to me, I was constantly conscious of my TTM and anxious under the surface.
"When I was 24, I settled in Glasgow and I started wearing wigs. I thought it would be a barrier to my pulling and did make me feel a lot more confident. Unfortunately it allowed the TTM to get much worse as I could pull without having to hide the patches with my own hair and it got to the stage where I had virtually no hair left."At 26, Wendy finally plucked up the courage to see her GP and tried cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and hypnotherapy.
She believes conditions like TTM are widespread and she's keen to get rid of stigma and offer people hope.
She said: "There's no known cure to date and the science behind it all is that there are 100 million people with it worldwide."
According to Lucinda, many people feel isolated but are now discovering they are not alone. She says it's a genetically predisposed condition and predominantly feminine. It also mostly starts at around the age of 11 or 12.
Daily Mail
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YOU CAN SKIP THIS PART(short joke)...
A young couple moved into a new neighbourhood. The next morning while eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbour through the window hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap".
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time the neighbour would hang laundry to dry, the young woman would make the same
comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learnt how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this!"
The husband replied: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life.
What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
Easy to discuss other people, their lives and things that don't really concern us.
Yet we tend to forget- our window isn't that clean after all.
Clean up your window with the WORD! (THE TRUTH.)
LORD, please give us the strength, humility and courage that we may work on our faults first rather than seeing the faults in Others and castigating them.
Have a beautiful Week !
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