News of Impulse-Control Disorders

I stopped pulling about a year and a half ago when I decided to get my dream pet, a persian cat, just by him being there gave me a reason to stop pulling, whenever I felt the need to pull, I would just go and pick him up and give him a cuddle. Now, he is no longer in my life, I barely had him 2 years but I stopped pulling for so long that ...

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Im a 38 year old female and Ive been lying my whole life. I was raised in an emotionally abusive home and I used lying as a survival skill...tried to invent "perfect' to avoid trouble as much as I possibly could. Lying at an early age becomes a dangerous habit, and while it may have got me through my childhood, it has destroyed my self esteem and I run the risk of losing the ...

I am married to a compulsive liar. He has lied to me so many times over the last 7 years, Im not sure what is the truth or not. I kept telling myself over the past years that he doesnt tell big lies that hurt anyone, hes a good dad, he loves me and I tried to let the lying go.I finally reached a breaking point and confronted him after I was humiliated because of ...

between the ages of 10 and 22 i was a chronic shoplifter. anything and everything if i knew i could get away with it.. even if i had the money. it was just an over powering urge, i felt unable to control. but now.. things are VERY different.


i got caught in boots chemist in aug 2005 stealing vitamin pills to the value of £9.99.. i was taken into the security office and the police ...

Hi all;
first post - I did a search but did not find. I was wondering if anyone else had this experience: I've noticed that the "pulled" hair has a different texture when it grows in. It is comparatively wiry. As I'm sure many of you know, this makes it harder to not pull. Is this just a result of pulling, or is it normal hair aging, or what? If it is the result of ...

I just joined and I want to say hello.

I have been a nail picker my whole life, a skin picker since high school, and a hair puller for the past couple of years. I spend prolly 3-5 hours a day doing this stuff.

Of the three, hair pulling can be the least obvious (I pluck pubes and chest hair).

I guess I've stopped trying to stop and am pretty much at ease with it. ...

I was wondering how many people with trichotillomania also have trichophagia, which is the compulsive chewing or eating hair, usually after just pulling it out.

I do and I would like to stop it because it can apparantly be fatal, because the human body cannot deal with hair-balls and so it can build up into an intestinal blockage. Has anyone had success stopping it, or knows of any methods?

I've been a hair puller on and off since I was 10. It was chronic when it started but calmed down. I moved on to other things, constantly picking my skin, pullling eyebrow and facial hairs and have in the past year moved on to include eyelashes and nose hairs.


I had my legs waxed which has turned into a nightmare. I'm supposed to have nice smooth legs but instead they're covered in scabs and ...

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Ok, I value everyone's opinion here on the board and the webmaster of the site. I first want to say that a website like this is just what suffer's like most of us need a common place where we all can relate to one another and know we are not alone in the everyday inner struggle we suffer. Ok I really need some help on this ...