The Creative New Year's Resolution That Helped Me Find Sanity and Community

Editor's note: The writer of this piece describes her experience with the hair-pulling disorder trichotillomania. It was December 2015, and I needed a distraction. My anxiety had hit a peak, I was feeling lonely in a big city (New York), and it seemed my brain was rusting over. I am a creative person. I like being a creative person. But my 9-to-5 job working in social media, coupled with my hours-long Netflix binges after work and on weekends, wasn't fueling that creativity.