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Originally Posted by ~Christina
Last year I decided I didn't want my half way down my back hair because Im 47 and I should not wear it so long.... I decided on a Pixie cut .. I liked it for the first 12 minutes. When I walked into my T's office he said "Manic much?" So I learned a big lesson, I put as many hurdles as possible in front of me when I am coming off the rails up or down , like limit amount of money I can get my hands on .... makes me wait on that tattoo I am certain I want "today"
Whats wrong with being a bit of a rebel ? More things are becoming more "socially acceptable" as time goes by... Im 47 I have no desire to "look my age" whatever that means anyway  |
This.
I used to change my hair on a whim, sometimes several times in a year. Short, long, colored, straight, curly---I didn't know then that it had anything to do with my moods. Now I don't mess with it myself---my son-in-law does it---but I do allow him to experiment with it.
In fact, this last time (in mid-Sept.) I let him do a complete straightening treatment and dye it back to my natural dark brown (okay, I'm very gray, but I
used to have dark brown hair). I love it, but my pdoc saw it very differently and thought at first that I was manic. I'm not, and I wasn't when I got my hair done either. But I guess the difference was stark enough that it put him on the alert, and he watched me like a hawk throughout the session and warned me not to mess with my meds.
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