News of Trichotillomania Forum

After recently getting my hair blow waved straight. . I realised that I wouldn't find any 'kinky' hairs, and being not interested in pulling out straight ones, that I had a solution. I now get my hair straightened once a week.. although at first it's a bit of a nuisance having to wear a shower cap etc so it doesn't frizz.. after a couple of days i just tie it up with a nice claw ...

Hi everyone

Yes I'm another person posting here saying I'm new to the forum.
But I'm not new to trichotillomania, or any other impulse disorders. Since 2001 I have been pulling out my hair, eyelashes and eyebrows which then swiftly merged into picking and pulling at the skin on my arms. Many times have I tried to stop doing them altogether but have not been successful. On a nicer note I have actually stopped pulling ...

I pull each hair individually, and when I accidentally get two or three at once, I get upset.


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he has seen the baldspots and i tell him my hair is falling out but my mother has told me to be honest with him and i think so too its just the fear of rejection makes me lie to him....i want to know if there is any way to make it easier for both of us...i still pick even when he ask me about the bald spots and it makes me frustrated that i ...

I had trich for about 1 1/2 years. I luckily got control of it, and stopped plucking my hair about a month ago. I slowed down and didn't pull as much as I did, then, one day stopped. It was great. It all started when I would take tweezers and pull out hairs that stuck up after i got out of the shower. I have slightly wavy hair, so these really bothered me. After about ...

I am an American fifteen-year-old girl, and when I can really remember my trich getting to the worrisome point was around this time last year. I've hit peaks and troughs since, to the point of having bald spots. Most of mine is at night as I read or such, and try to calm down from a long day. I've noticed that after a particularly adrenalin-filled or stressful event, I used to pull. I would cover ...

Hi all,
Im new to this forum and only found out trich was a medical condition about 2 years ago thank to the internet.
Im 35 years old now and have had it since I was about 13 or 14. I know it started when I was at secondary school.
I dont think I was too bad with it because i never had any noticable hair loss, but whatever i did pull out i would ...

much out? This is my first post in this forum btw, just thought I'd say 'hi' :)

But I have had 'trich' for many years now... probably about 16 years. :/ I REALLY want to stop though.. honestly. I bought fake hair extensions to even pull thosee hairs, instead of my own & am trying to use that as a coping mechanism now. I want to stop ...

I'm brand new here, having just found this site through faithful web searching. I'll start by saying how nice it feels to read posts about/by people who know what I'm dealing with. But I've noticed that my case seems a tad different, even if in the very slightest, than a lot of the posts I've read so far.

I've always seemed to have issues with leaving my hair alone, since I was young child.
But ...

i been plucking my hair since i was 9, i had a huge bald spot before (i was 11 or 12 at the time) and i was embarrassed because i had to go to sch with that condition.
i stopped plucking my hair after that and my hair grow - but it still got a few small bald spot - but its better since nobody sees it.

after few years, i start plucking my hair ...