Trichotillomania

For my loyal fans..

I am once again the proud owner of a full, long set of eyelashes! :D
So, so happy.

Also my scalp has grown in so much that it's difficult to notice the short bits even when I don't wear my clip-in pieces. Although I am still pulling a bit from there, it's improving all the time.

I've started seeing a psychiatrist who has increased my medication to 30mg of Lexapro. He also plans to keep increasing it if I start to plateau.. Which is totally fine by me. Apparently the 20mg I was on before (10mg is the standard dose for depression/anxiety) is not considered an adequate dose for Trich. He also said most of his patients have to stop at 25mg because they can't handle the side effects. Luckily for me I only had side effects (not even bad ones - headaches, tiredness and sweating) for about 5 days as I was going up to 30mg. Now I feel fine.

Apart from the fact that it's helping my pulling, I've also noticed improvements in my concentration, self esteem and general mood. I'm kind of like "wow, this is how happy 'normal' people feel all the time?! I've been jipped my whole life!" Something not so great that I have noticed is that I've become way more social - actually having the energy and confidence to go out. As a result I have been spending WAY too many nights partying and losing a ridiculous of sleep, so my uni work is suffering. In the past week and a half I have been out approx every second night.. Staying up till between 2 and 4am.

... Although that may be less to do with the medication and more to do with wanting to escape normal life which is pretty stressful most of the time.
I guess the hardest thing I have to do right now is knuckle down and get through the end of the semester. Then I have 4 months of summer partying to look forward to!

Life is good. :D