Comments on: When You Don’t Care About Pulling http://ontrich.com/when-you-dont-care-about-pulling.html Personal stories from those with experience of trichotillomania - pulling out hair. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:59:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mspennylane http://ontrich.com/when-you-dont-care-about-pulling.html/comment-page-1#comment-6555 mspennylane Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:25:46 +0000 http://ontrich.com/?p=573#comment-6555 Mia - I also do it when I'm bored, or when I'm doing things like reading. The best advice I could give would be just to keep your hands busy. I also have long hair that is a lot thinner than it used to be. It's frustrating, but I'm thankful for the fact that I do at least still have long hair. The best thing I did for myself and my hair pulling was to write about it here - it helped get my feelings out. Mia – I also do it when I’m bored, or when I’m doing things like reading. The best advice I could give would be just to keep your hands busy. I also have long hair that is a lot thinner than it used to be. It’s frustrating, but I’m thankful for the fact that I do at least still have long hair. The best thing I did for myself and my hair pulling was to write about it here – it helped get my feelings out.

]]> By: Mia http://ontrich.com/when-you-dont-care-about-pulling.html/comment-page-1#comment-6545 Mia Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:30:18 +0000 http://ontrich.com/?p=573#comment-6545 I love to read stories related to me because then I know I'm not alone. I've been pulling my hair out for a while now. I do it when I'm nervous and when i'm in bed. It doesn't bother me when I'm alone but yet when I'm getting ready for school I am so self consious. I have beautiful long dark brown hair that used to be thick and it makes me soooo depressed!!!! How do I stop!???? Please I love to read stories related to me because then I know I’m not alone. I’ve been pulling my hair out for a while now. I do it when I’m nervous and when i’m in bed. It doesn’t bother me when I’m alone but yet when I’m getting ready for school I am so self consious. I have beautiful long dark brown hair that used to be thick and it makes me soooo depressed!!!! How do I stop!???? Please

]]> By: Kristen1453 http://ontrich.com/when-you-dont-care-about-pulling.html/comment-page-1#comment-4464 Kristen1453 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:53:59 +0000 http://ontrich.com/?p=573#comment-4464 I can completely relate to you on this post. I was just doing that for about 25 minutes until I started typing to reply to you. I know I am really stressed about a lot of things in life. I am a 21 year old college student, with a steady job, (looking for another extra job), i have a great family, but my boyfriend and i are always having our good and bad days. I started "picking" not pulling, my split ends when I was a sophomore in high school, this continued until about 2 years ago. Now I just pull it out. Usually around the crown of my head, I have straight hair & if I feel a thick or curly piece it literally drives me insane until I pull it out. I know I do it, and I really don't care as bad as I know it is for my scalp and my hair. My family, friends and boyfriend always get mad a me when they see me picking at it, then I will stop for about 5 seconds and i have to do it again. It goes on daily and i feel like 1000 times a day. I go to therapy once a week, and we just started discussing it, but I really dont think she thinks its as bad as it is. WHYYYYY is this happening and why can't i just stop? It makes me so upset, I hate looking down and having to pick up the clumps of hair on the floor at home or at my boyfriends... it is so embarassing. I can completely relate to you on this post. I was just doing that for about 25 minutes until I started typing to reply to you. I know I am really stressed about a lot of things in life. I am a 21 year old college student, with a steady job, (looking for another extra job), i have a great family, but my boyfriend and i are always having our good and bad days.

I started “picking” not pulling, my split ends when I was a sophomore in high school, this continued until about 2 years ago. Now I just pull it out. Usually around the crown of my head, I have straight hair & if I feel a thick or curly piece it literally drives me insane until I pull it out. I know I do it, and I really don’t care as bad as I know it is for my scalp and my hair. My family, friends and boyfriend always get mad a me when they see me picking at it, then I will stop for about 5 seconds and i have to do it again. It goes on daily and i feel like 1000 times a day. I go to therapy once a week, and we just started discussing it, but I really dont think she thinks its as bad as it is. WHYYYYY is this happening and why can’t i just stop? It makes me so upset, I hate looking down and having to pick up the clumps of hair on the floor at home or at my boyfriends… it is so embarassing.

]]> By: embarassed http://ontrich.com/when-you-dont-care-about-pulling.html/comment-page-1#comment-4457 embarassed Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:58:34 +0000 http://ontrich.com/?p=573#comment-4457 I started pulling at the age of 7. I am now 34 and I still do it. I have read on sites that its a form of mild self mutilation. At the age of 31 I was drinking and telling my mother how I had been raped, and out of nowhere I told her it wasnt as bad as how it was when my sister made me touch her. It was then that I realized that at the age my sister started making me touch her was the same time i started pulling my eyelashes out. I have to draw my eyebrows on because i cant control and i really dont care cuz i can draw them on, but i have to fight everyday to keep my fingers away from my eyes. i have no advice because at the moment i am almost eyelashless. I feel like its nothing more then a distraction from whats really bugging you, and the concentration it takes to actually get the hair becomes a safe zone. you forget everything and zone in on that individual, lol i like to call it, nuiscance. I started pulling at the age of 7. I am now 34 and I still do it. I have read on sites that its a form of mild self mutilation. At the age of 31 I was drinking and telling my mother how I had been raped, and out of nowhere I told her it wasnt as bad as how it was when my sister made me touch her. It was then that I realized that at the age my sister started making me touch her was the same time i started pulling my eyelashes out. I have to draw my eyebrows on because i cant control and i really dont care cuz i can draw them on, but i have to fight everyday to keep my fingers away from my eyes. i have no advice because at the moment i am almost eyelashless. I feel like its nothing more then a distraction from whats really bugging you, and the concentration it takes to actually get the hair becomes a safe zone. you forget everything and zone in on that individual, lol i like to call it, nuiscance.

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