Gray Hairs
Looking in the mirror and seeing the gray hair is awful, since I can’t NOT pull it out. Even people that don’t suffer with trich are likely to remove the gray hairs, it just happens to be worse for people like me. I noticed recently that more and more and MORE gray hairs have been appearing. Rapidly. This leads to more and more pulling, until every one is gone.
However, I recently read that the gray hairs are likely being caused, not by aging and growing old, but by the act of repeated pulling. What happens is the color sac gets damaged, and thus the shaft will turn white. The color sac DOES eventually heal itself, and the hair’s color will return to it’s normal state… but this apparently takes several months to happen, and if you keep pulling the hair out… well, it will never fix itself.
This info was obtained through one of <a href=”http://trich.org” target=”_blank”> TLC’s </a> seminars, which someone reported on in their own blog. (Can’t remember who, I read this a little while ago)
so… as hard as it is NOT to keep pulling the white hair… DON’T!! I’ve decided to keep my roots dyed lessen the amount of pulling I do. out of sight, out of mind… indeed. I really hope that all of the hair I’ve turned white just recently.. .will start to mend itself… cuz there really is a good deal of it there now. argh.