(This list is not for everyone. Some of these things might do fuck-all nothing for you. Some of them might drastically change your life. For me, they are things that did the latter. Don't feel bad if people's suggestions don't help you... we're all so individual. You'll create your own list.) * T-Gel shampoo, (tar shampoo) which eliminated all the horrible raw red spots on my head. And it managed to do this in about a week. No more painful raw spots. Bloody magic. I'm thinking I may have had sebhorratic dermatitis, as it also helped with flaking/itching that no other dandruff shampoo could do. This is only $8 a bottle. God bless this stuff. * Tea-tree oil , which I use when I still get the occasional bump on my head. I also use it on pimples near my hairline. Some people dilute it, I don't. Helped me stop messing with red spots, first it feels like peppermint freshness ice on your skin and then after twenty minutes I forget I even have a bump. Also tea tree oil is useful for pretty much everything. I put it in my humidifier and it clears out my head. * Adderall, and no I'm not suggesting you start taking it illegally. But I do suggest you think hard about the medication you're taking, if it actually helps you, and talk to your psychiatrist if you have concerns. I took a slurry of antidepressants and antianxiety pills every morning that did nothing for me, not to mention a million supplements. They did not help but I took them because my psychiatrist told me to and they made me feel a little different I guess. DON'T SETTLE WHEN IT COMES TO MEDICATION. There is something out there that can help you, but it might take a while to find. Never in my life did I think an attention-deficit disorder could be behind the bulk of my problems, but it was. * I moved away. I realize this isn't an option for everyone but to be honest it helped me so much. I had grown so used to being unhappy in my hometown that it was almost conditioned behavior (and still is: when I go back I get unhappy and bitchy and self-conscious. It's like the visual memory of the place that triggers it.) Moving gave me a chance to a completely fresh start. There is only one person from my high school here and it is BLISS. It would have been a mistake for me to go to college in my hometown--seeing faces from high school every day would have been detrimental for me. The people here know me and love me for I am NOW, not who I was two or three years ago. * Went back on birth control, which I had stopped due to concerns that it could be worsening the trich (my mom and I got desperate and were grasping at straws near the end.) Anyways, going off gave me horrible, painful cystic acne and some pretty bad mood issues. Going back on solved both these things within a week. * Lastly, if you're a person with breasts, and struggle with body issues or bad-fitting bras, I would really suggest cheching out http://www.reddit.com/r/ABraThatFits . There are multiple methods of bra sizing, the american way adds inches to the band instead of to the cup. As a result I was constantly pulling down my band and my bras just didn't fit right, were uncomfortable, and had a strange contour. I felt like my boobs were defective and undesirable. With the sizing that adds inches to the cup, I went from a 34B to a 28E.(Cup volume goes down as band size goes down, so they look about the same. Not as weird as it sounds.) And holy shit, it has changed my life. I feel good in my bras and they actually support me. My confidence has skyrocketed simply because I am so much more comfortable. If you got boob issues, please consider looking into this, because it's made a suprising difference to me.
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