Hi I'm Tommy and i suffer from mental health issues due to my alopecia. Its taken me 2-3 years to work out how it happened partly because i forced myself to study for a youth and community qualification which requires research in vulnerable young people.

Only now do i realise the extent that it has gotten to.Before i knew my hair was a big issue but i was stuck in dark cloud so i couldn't even comprehend anything at the time.

Two of my symptoms has been memory loss and even my speech has been affected. I also have 80%-90 symptoms of:

Social anxiety disorder
Obsessive–compulsive disorder
Major depressive disorder

It sounds kind of extreme for all this due to hair-loss but its had a kind of domino effect on my life. I'm finally at a point where i know i need help and as do silent suffers which is why I'm posting this. I have never talked to anybody about it until i kind of touched on the subject on another group. I haven't even told my GP yet as i just cant bring my self to talk to him about it, i mean how the hell would you start! I'm trying to construct a letter of everything and post it as i am unable to do it any other way.

It also makes me think how many others are out there who are just unable to help themselves for lack of a better word! I also will blog about it and my progress if there is any :S

Tommy

P.s if you do want to join but don't really want to 'spread your business' PM me and ill set up a private group if that would make anybody fell more at ease.

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I knew you wouldn't let me down Alice! lol

I have been suffering in silence and i had the perfect chance to tell my doctor when i had to go to him about my BP, needless to say i couldn't! I come out really ermm, not angry but frustrated (you know the one where you wanna let out the tears!)

Mental heath is a sort of a no go area for most people which is why i did make this group to sort of hold a touch in the darkness! I know i need to sort my self out for my family, my nans got alzimers, my great aunts got terminal cancer and my other great aunt is disabled with her arthritis (she's the one in the book!) my great aunts are like my other nan's.

I cant do talk therapy as well, there are a number of reasons i think it pony but one of them is how can you get 'feedback' from somebody who doesn't know what its like to go through it.

I'm definitely going to write it all down just so it helps me know what is going on in my head, I hope when i post it people can relate to it which hopeful will bring them some sort of comfort.
Then i hope i can finish my book aswell, i was really enjoying writing it then my brain fuse fizzled again :S

Thanks for the Hug and welcome to the nut nut group! lol
Hello

Hats off to you sir for setting up this group....you are 100% right in that no one should feel ashamed for feeling like this. I have had depression/panic disorder/health anxiety and OCD in different degrees over the past 7 yrs, and it has only been since I had my meds up and tried CBT that I actually felt better....when I was first diagnosed I felt embarrassed that I had this, but to be honest there are so many people who have depression....it is becoming more "acceptable" so to speak. Just the other day I was out speaking with a group of neighbours I had never really got to know, and 4 out of the 7 of us take citalopram lol....and even though my hair loss is not yet noticeable to most people I don't make a thing of hiding my condition, yes I would rather I didn't have it, but again I have learnt not to be ashamed of who I am and what ailments i may or may not have, and the amount of people who will say oh I know someone with that, or today a customer where I work informed me she had alopecia a long time ago but hers grew back etc....I know when I felt at my worst with depression i was no where near as open about it as I am now, and I understand that people on here won't yet be in that place...but for anyone that wants to chat or get things re depression, anxiety etc off their chests, I am also here to lend a helping hand. Hope you are all having a wonderful Easter. xxxx
Hey Tracy thanks for the support! my brain is finding hard to process your comment as it seems to be at the bottom of the page and to reply i got to be at the top! so ill keep it short! lol

Hope your well Tommy
I am like that...or if more than one person reply I tend to forget to write something lol. xx Hope you are having a god day xxxoh and yeah I am well thanks
Yes lol im terrible with texing i read a tex and reply but forget what the tex says! end up sending 3 texes to make up for it lol, my day was God lol
hahaha! i keep typing msgs on msn to my friend and forgetting to press the enter button so she thinks I am ignoring her lol....whoops. ah well....we know what we mean eh lol xx cheers for the friend request by the way xxx

Hello - thanks for setting up this group - in 2007 I had a break down because I was loosing my hair ended up hospitalised and on all sorts of drugs that didn't really help - eventually the psychiatrist wanted to put me on Lithium - at that point I decided things had gotten out of control - I was having a breakdown due to stress, overwork , exhaustion and because my hair was falling out - nobody really believed me they thought I had a psychotic obsession with my hair - seriously it was awful. I have always suffered from depression and managed it with counselling and exercise - the hairloss triggered a very bad bout - an identity and existential crisis - looking back on it I'm quite cross sometimes - in the end I came off the drugs I was given and I lost all my hair through chemo therapy anyway - loosing my hair was- for me - worse than cancer. Well it all grew back - but now for various reasons I'm loosing my hair again - it completely challenges my sense of self and makes it harder for me to manage my depression - however no way I'm going near the pyscs or medication again - this time I'm doing much better with my counsellor and yoga - and just trying to accept myself inside out - with or without hair - thanks again for starting the group and raising this issue.

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