Archive | December, 2008

Christmas and Trichotillomania

Note – This will be my last post here for a while. It is almost Christmas and then I am going away for the first two weeks of January. There may be some scheduled posts, but if not I will be back in the middle of Janurary! Since Christmas is fast approaching I was wondering [...]

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Trichotillomania Rituals #8

POSTED BY: mspennylane There are many weird and wonderful things that people do when they have trich, but are they really so weird? I hadn’t heard of some of them before, but really they all come down to the same thing. Pulling whilst sleeping: This is also common, and just one more reason why some [...]

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Trichotillomania Statistics

I feel that trichotillomania, or pulling out your own hair, is something that isn’t really talked about by many people. You may have seen someone do it and thought it was ‘weird’ or if you do it yourself you might think you are the only one. But the truth is that a lot of people [...]

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Trichotillomania Rituals #7

POSTED BY: mspennylane There are many weird and wonderful things that people do when they have trich, but are they really so weird? I hadn’t heard of some of them before, but really they all come down to the same thing. Mirrors: The mirror can be a trichster’s worst enemy – either searching for those [...]

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‘Pull Free’ = Not So Pull Free

Well, the second pull free attempt didn’t work quite so well (see my article on going pull free last time). But I like to be positive here so here are some benefits of going pull free, even if you aren’t completely successful. Though you might still pull a few hairs, you will probably be more [...]

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Fluffy Hair (Includes Pictures)

Even if I don’t have noticeable bald patches (I have a thin area around my crown at the moment but that’s it), I still find my fluffy hair very annoying. Sometimes it doesn’t bother me, but recently it’s bothering me more. I think it’s getting worse. Now I know that everyone has short hairs growing [...]

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Trichotillomania Rituals #6

POSTED BY: mspennylane There are many weird and wonderful things that people do when they have trich, but are they really so weird? I hadn’t heard of some of them before, but really they all come down to the same thing. Split Ends: Many people sit for hours picking away at their split ends (including [...]

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‘Pull Free’

Have you ever heard of the term ‘pull free’? It means that you have managed to stop pulling your hair out for any length of time. Some people have been pull free for years and still continue to be, but for most of us this means not pulling a hair perhaps for a day, a [...]

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