Rachel Simon: Amy Schumer talking openly about trichotillomania, a hair-pulling condition, and incorporating it as a plotline in her new Hulu show “Life & Beth” matters so much. - NBCNewsTHINK
. Since high school, I’ve pulled out my eyebrow hairs and, occasionally, my head hair and eyelashes. I’m lucky enough to not have a severe case; even after a day of heavy picking, I can typically cover up the bald patches in my brows with makeup and blame any thinner areas on overplucking. Yet I’m all too familiar with the shame that Schumer and so many others with the little-known but fairly common disorder describe.
Pulling out my own hair feels gross and embarrassing, and although I know, rationally, that it’s a compulsion and thus not voluntary, it’s hard not to feel guilty for causing such damage to my body. The fact that trichotillomania is so rarely talked about in the media compounds those emotions; the less information and support available for a condition, the more isolated and abnormal those who experience it feel.
As a teenager and young adult, I didn’t even know that my tendency to repeatedly pull my eyebrows out had a name, let alone had millions of fellow sufferers. This is why a major star like Schumer talking openly about the disorder and incorporating it as a plotline in her new Hulu show “Life & Beth” matters so much. In the penultimate episode of the semi-autobiographical dramedy about a successful woman reflecting on her past, a young version of Schumer is seen being fitted for a wig while a therapist informs her mother that Schumer has trichotillomania.
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