Trichotillomania treatment funding
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Hello I'm Jenna.
After having my daughter almost 4 years ago I became very unwell.
Postnatal depression / anxiety attacks and very extreme hair pulling disorder that has now taken over my life. It's like a visions circle the stress starts the anxiety and the anxiety creates the need to pull. It first started with my eye lashes at around 7 years old then a few years later my eyebrows as well. I don't have any confidence and can't stand to look at myself. If I ever leave the house it's with a cap on. I just want to feel like me again and be able to go out with my head held high.
This condition is really hard it makes you feel embarrassed, ashame
d and ugly. I do anything to try and hide it. Makeup and sports cap.
I have recently started therapy to try and find the trigger that causes this so I have hope that one day I might beat this and get to look like everyone else.
I'm trying to raise the money for a specialist treatment. They attach real hair to mine. You can style it wash it go swimming. It's just like my own hair but comes at a very high cost. The reason this treatment would be so amazing for me is its like a wig it acts as a barrier between my hands and my own hair. Giving my own hair chance to grow underneath. I wouldn't pull the wig hair out as i pull for the feeling I get on my head so it wouldn't have the same release.
It wouldnt be so hard to save the money up if the government was helping us but they won't class my illness as a disability so for the last 4 years Iv not gotten anything to help us.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story xx
I have a Facebook group your welcome to join and follow and news
Jenna's trichotillomania fundraising
After having my daughter almost 4 years ago I became very unwell.
Postnatal depression / anxiety attacks and very extreme hair pulling disorder that has now taken over my life. It's like a visions circle the stress starts the anxiety and the anxiety creates the need to pull. It first started with my eye lashes at around 7 years old then a few years later my eyebrows as well. I don't have any confidence and can't stand to look at myself. If I ever leave the house it's with a cap on. I just want to feel like me again and be able to go out with my head held high.
This condition is really hard it makes you feel embarrassed, ashame
d and ugly. I do anything to try and hide it. Makeup and sports cap. I have recently started therapy to try and find the trigger that causes this so I have hope that one day I might beat this and get to look like everyone else.
I'm trying to raise the money for a specialist treatment. They attach real hair to mine. You can style it wash it go swimming. It's just like my own hair but comes at a very high cost. The reason this treatment would be so amazing for me is its like a wig it acts as a barrier between my hands and my own hair. Giving my own hair chance to grow underneath. I wouldn't pull the wig hair out as i pull for the feeling I get on my head so it wouldn't have the same release.
It wouldnt be so hard to save the money up if the government was helping us but they won't class my illness as a disability so for the last 4 years Iv not gotten anything to help us.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story xx
I have a Facebook group your welcome to join and follow and news
Jenna's trichotillomania fundraising
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Jenna Kitchen
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