I'm going to say yes for me. I started relaxing my hair in Jan 03', and I was getting it done at the shop and rollerset. Then I relaized I can't do my own rollerset so I started CW and bunning. My hair was about shoulder length. At the end of 03 start of 04 I decided to do my own relaxing. I must of used Motions, TCB, Revlon, Elast QP all throughout 04-05' but my hair was underprocessed because of the lye. I also had a lot of breakage from soo many brands, and even though my hair was brastrap, it was thin due to my "experimentation". I kinda wandered thru 05' using Mizani, but this year I relaized it was too strong for my hair, because I had broken sections. So I had long hair that was uneven/thin.
I tried no-lye again this year, and I like the results. My dilema was once again the thin over-processed hair at the ends. So I cut them off and now I'm at armpit length. Now my hair is even and thick. I'm going to try the ponytail rollersets, because I'm sick of buns after 3 years!!!! I never had breakage w/ no-lye, so I'm hoping my ends won't thin out as my hair gets longer like the lye did. I'm going to stay w/ my vitamins and deep conditioning treatments.
If my hair isn't brastrap and healthy w/ no-lye and rollersets by Dec 06, I'm going natural because my hair should be to my a$$ by now, with all the trimming I've had to do. Setbacks, defiantley. But I think for me it was about finding out what works and what didn't. If I can't figure it out this year, maybe relaxing isn't for me.