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Photo project "She takes a photo: 6.5 Years" on YouTube
Rebecca Brown began to rip her hair at the age of 12. Whenever she was stressed or angry. A short time later she was almost bald. Her experience with trichotillomania shows her now in a video diary.
Rebecca Brown suffers from trichotillomania, a complex impulse control disorder that causes her sufferers to rip her own hair. The story of her suffering accompanied the English woman for six and a half years with a daily photo of herself. The result was summarized in a video by Rebecca Brown and shows how, in addition to depression and stress, beautiful things, such as first love, came into her life.
Her project "She takes a photo: 6.5 Years" was started by Rebecca Brown in 2007, when she was 15 years old. Over the next six and a half years, she has repeatedly struggled with heavy setbacks. Depression, harassment and severe relapses of her disease Trichotillomania. The YouTube clip shows all of this in an impressive way.
Rebecca Brown's commentary in the video: "All this is frightening, it makes me equally happy and scares me, I'm not a very happy person and try not to do so, but when you see my smile, especially after the kahleit ... this smile is really sincere, I prefer to see a project full of honesty, than 2, 000 photos of false emotions. "
The selfies of Rebecca Brown show not only her physical changes, but also special moments of her life, such as traveling, her first boyfriend, all that makes Rebecca what she is today: a young woman trying on herself to come clean.
"Beauty is more than what you see, " Rebecca Brown writes in her video, "Humans are more than what their circumstances make of them, I'm more than my hair and skin, all of that is just mine By the way, I hope people will watch the video and get an impression of the girl inside. "
