Fighting a Losing Battle

[kikukachan]

I'm fighting that losing battle with my hair again. I've pulled more in the past two days than I have almost all of last semester. I am seriously stressed; it's effecting my school work and reading, even.
I have been taking my wellbutrin regularly to try to combat the stress and pulling and depression feels. I usually double my dose in order to see

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[misa1]

I'm sorry you're struggling so hard with this. :( I feel you, because I struggle with a less severe, but ongoing similar thing where when I get stressed, I scratch at my scalp, often until it bleeds. I can always tell how stressed out I am by how compelled I feel to do this. It was worst when I was a teen, early twenties. It's still a thing, but not quite as regular, and the severe times are fewer and further between. But I get that feeling of needing a haircut and not wanting to go to the salon because I don't want them to see all the cuts, or making a hair appointment for weeks away, then trying to remember not to do it so that they'll be healed up by the time I get there. It sucks sucks sucks. I've been off of it for the most part for a while now, because things have been pretty chill. But yeah. Sucks.

[kikukachan]

Thanks, It's all just so frustrating, because I was doing so well with my depression and my hair, and I was on the right track. Now I'm back peddling and slipping back down the hill fast, and I don't know how to recover from that...

It's tough... that's all I gotta say about anything like this.