Several years ago I was diagnosed with Alopecia Areata.After that I lost all self-esteem that I had at the time. Throughout the past couple of years, I have begun to receive some of my self-esteem back. Other days being better than others. Around six years ago I picked up playing volleyball and fell in love. I have continued to play ever since. In my most recent season, a couple months ago, I decided I was fed up with hiding my alopecia from my team mates that I adored so much. I prayed and…

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Heyy, everyone I recently saw Soul Surfer and it inspired to look at things in a different perspective, so I figured I would tell you how and maybe it would inspire some of you guys too. :)

When I was nine I was at my home town Pawleys Island, SC, I was just enojoying a beautiful day in the place I love, the ocean, when some pretty big waves pulled me under, I was thrown onto jagged rocks with no control over where I went, of course I was only nine so I wasn't stong enough to fight them. I… Continue

Hey everyone, My name is Rachel and I've been fifteen for almost two months. I have had AA for about five years, and it got started by me having a life or death experience in 2005. It used to be reallyy bad where I could barely cover up my spots. But now I am glad to say that after every cycle it would slowly grow back and the spots would be smaller and smaller and there would be fewer spots each cyle that my hair fell out. Now I haven't had a cycle in probably over a year, and my hair is…

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Heyy if you wear fake eyelashes. Can you please give me some tips because i have been wearing them and im going to the beach soon and wanna be able to wear them in the ocean and pool without having to be paranoid the whole time about them. :) Will someone please tell me how i can do that? It would help me tons and remove some stress so i can have fun on vacation with no worries. :))

A while ago my dad told me that a guys daughter that he works with had alopecia and she grew out of it completely by the time she was 18 :) I figured i would put this up and tell people this so they would have hope that it can go away. :) When my hair falls out it comes in spells and lasts for a couple of months and each time it falls out it less and less hair falls out each time. :D Is anyone elses hair doing the same thing as mine??

It breaks my heart to see anyone with no hair, little hair, bald spots, or to find out that they have a disease that will cause that but it really put my heart in pain when I saw a little girl not even in her teens yet with no hair and I watched people stare at her like they thought she was from a completely different world. It brought tears to my eyes when I saw a grown adult ask a little girl, that looked to be about 7 years old, why she didnt have any hair. I mean are you serious?!Your an… Continue

some of my friends have asked me why dont u have eyebrows or eye lashes and my friend one time was like if you have eyebrows that you cant see put your hand in and she was like Rachel? people are just so rude sometimes! they just dont realize how hard it is to live like this! i dont have any friends with alopecia so no one understands sometime i just feel like im alone and have no one to go to!... i just want to fit in a be able to do whatever i want to my hair whenever i want to without having… Continue