I am so sick of my mom treating me like I am sick. I moved back in with my parents for a bit after college and now I'm ready to leave, but she constantly shoots me down whenever I mention. When I ask her why, she tells me it is because I am "sick." I cannot figure out how to explain to her that no I am not "sick." I have an autoimmune condition and that if this is making me "sick" then I'll be sick for the rest of my life?

It's irritating. No matter how hard I try to explain to her…

I just started using castor oil on my scalp after reading great reviews on it in several different places. Though I'm not pinning all of my hopes on it, I want to see if it makes any different at all. So tonight is my first night using it. I rubbed it on my scalp and where my eyebrows are supposed to be and my eyelashes. Immediately I felt my scalp warming up, but a nice kinda warm (normally I feel pretty cold without my beanie or hat or scarf). Then I wrapped my scalp up with a cotton…

So like most people on this site I have also lost my hair and feel really self conscious about it. The icing on the cake is that I have been away from my fiance since September of last year. He hasn't seen much of me since I've been completely bald. He has seen maybe one or two pictures. I keep my beanie or scarf on while we Skype or FaceTime. So the other day while we were Skyping, without thinking of it, I moved my beanie a little to scratch my head. When I realized what I had done, I felt…