Hygiene tips for a teenage girl who was never taught properly?
Hi, I'm 16 years old and I really need hygiene tips, I know I'm already old enough to know how to take care of myself but I'm struggling to get it.
My mother didn't teach me anything about hygiene growing up, she just threw products at me and told me to wash myself. I never understood it or anything with hygiene. I'm also incredibly overweight, I've been overweight for as long as I can remember.
I was also diagnosed with depression at 6, my grandma on my mother's side has depression and schizophrenia, my mother has depression, my father who isn't in the picture anymore is a diagnosed bipolar
I struggle with brushing my teeth, it's pathetic. I also had issues with eating and then throwing up to attempt to lose weight when I was 12 to 15, so my teeth are horrible, they're light yellow.
My hair is naturally curly, when I was younger I was given conditioner and shampoo and wasn't told anything about it, so I washed my hair everyday, until I didn't and left my hair to mat for several months while I was ten. My father and step mother spent 5 hours detangling my hair. Now I use a straightener and constantly keep my hair straightened.
When I was younger (until 12) I would wear the same 5 underwear for days or even weeks and then put them to wash just to continue the cycle, I didn't know what deodorant was until I was 12.
I didn't stop peeing the bed until I was 11. My room smelt horrid because no one went in there and I would sleep and pee on the bed unknowingly or knew I couldn't get up because I didn't want to get caught and would pee.
Also, I have so much dark and light marks on my body because I used to pick at everything.
I didn't know how perfume worked until I saw girls use it in 7th grade, the few things I remember is trying to put perfume on myself before but I didn't know which way so I would end up spraying my eyes. And with the soap, at some point when I was younger I put it in me a LITTLE bit but started crying because of how much is stinged and I haven't done it since.
And because I'm overweight and have been for so long, my thighs press constantly, so I have dark marks on my inner thighs. I don't know how to get rid of them at all or even how to start.