Trichotillomania Reflection

Throughout my educational career and especially during my last year of I maintained a GPA and enrolled myself in a series of challenging courses. Throughout these challenging courses and other extracurricular activities, from sports to volunteering, I was able to sustain my GPA and lead my various clubs and sports. However, my test scores did not reflect the amount of efforts and determination I put into my high school career. On the other hand it successfully reflected my self- diagnose Trichotillomania. A disorder centralizing over the act of pulling hair residing in the scalp or body. A disorder I did not come into realization until early this year. It was not until after the rigid course of college applications and testing followed by finals …show more content…
The problem was not my inability to complete the test but my inability to resist the urge of placing my left hand onto the left portion of my scalp and my right hand holding onto a pencil. Of course after my realization of awareness of the pain within my scalp, I began to put my every effort into resisting the urge to do so. Though it has been a hard path, I have come to improve, by sitting on my left hand and only using my right hand why taking a test or simply completing an assignment. Though it may not be the best solution, since that I am loosing quite a bit of blood circulation in my left hand, I am now able to fully focus on my tasks. In the past couple of months I have matured in a way many my age have not achieve. UCSD has been my top choice university since the day I was born. Whether it because I just want to go there because I want to be closer to home or because I am glorified by the amount of science and medical programs it encompasses, ucsd holds dearly a special place in my heart. Even though my situation has held me back tremendously towards my acceptance into UCSD it has also revealed me immense improvement to overcome …show more content…
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