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hello if you are watching this video than you probably know me
or i posted it
on a certain
site on facebook
for other people who are like me
looking at me you probably notice something a little different
a little odd, and
you can't pin point it
you know that expression: "I'm so stressed that I could pull my hair out?" I never
got offended
by that growing up
until recently...
that's a clue, by the way.
I...
have trichotillomania.
"you have what??"
"trich-a-what?" is usually my..
it's what people ask me.
trichotillomania is..
a hair pulling disorder
it's an OCD.
so basically when i get stressed out
when i get upset
when i get nervous
i pull hair
my choice of hair
is probably pretty obvious since there are none..
uh...
are eyebrows.
like you might be looking at me
thinking.. "but Lauren, you have eye brows, I see them on you every time I see you."
yeah, we'll get to that in a second...
umm..
my other choices?
eye lashes, although I try to stay clear from them because the whole allergy thing. eyelashes
protect your eyes, and when I don't have eye lashes
my eyes get really really
really bad
uh...
also, not many people know this about me..
the hairs right here...
this side doesn't really have any because i've been pulling them a lot lately..
uh... the baby hairs right here, i pull them.
i just started that
about a year ago.
i don't pull out
the hair
my hair.. because for one it's very painful for me,
and for two
um.. i like my hair..
i do pull out
my arm hair but i try to shave it as much as possible
so i don't have that
i don't have it there.. to pull. (no temptation)
um...
other people who have trich, thousands upon thousands of people who have Trich
umm..
they pull out their hair on top of their head
uh...
basically anywhere we have hair on our bodies
is pull-able. ANY
there's also
another part of Trich, but I won't get into that on here.
uh...
because it's... it grosses people out. and only
people that
know about trich, or
i'm close to
i have told about that part of it.
you could probably do research and figure out what i'm talking about.
but i will show on here really quick..
how i
i guess
hide the fact, that I have trich.
and try to look as
normal as possible, on a day to day basis.
because if i walked out of my house like this, everyone would look at me and be like..
'there's something wrong with her' because i've done it before. I've gone to school
without drawing
on my eye brows, yep drawing.
and people have said
"YOU DRAW ON YOUR EYE BROWS... REALLY!?!?" yeah... and they reply with..
"I would have never guessed! They look so normal!"
the fact is, i've been drawing on my eye brows for over
ten years.
so i'm pretty sure
i've got the hang of it
so umm, i'll do it really quick.
i am mirrored, with my webcam right now, so it might turn out, a little uhh.. weird. but we'll try.
that ones just a little weird
i'll fix it later
uh...
but yeah that's how
I end up
with eye brows everyday.
that's how i draw them on, because
i don't have any
because i have trichotillomania..