News of Trichotillomania Forum

So i have trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling) and i am curious if anyone else out there has it like i do ... i am obessed with plucking out (with tweezers) the small short prickly baby hairs that grow in on my scalp. They drive me CRAZY. I don't pull out long strands of hair much, just the small stubble hairs that grow in.... i can feel them prickly and sticking up cause they are so ...

I've been a hair puller for well over 8 years now and have never stopped searching for a way to stop and I think I may have finally found it. My chiropractor who is also a naturopath has given me a mix of Gabba and metal (the metal part won't apply to everyone) that targets the neurotransmitter which has switched off in my brain. After taking Gabba constantly for two weeks I've noticed how positive ...

This summer I put band-aids on my eyebrows so that I could not pluck 24/7 and they grew back. I put on a bandanna/hairband thing and pulled it down over the band-aids so that no one could see them. I looked a little bit funny having this on but it was worth it! If you can't find a bandanna like this you could also use a ski cap. I would also suggest buying a crappy ...

Hi well first of all I am a 13 year old girl and I have Trichotillomania. It all started when I was in 5th grade. I had thick eyebrows and people started making fun of me saying I had a unibrow even though I waxed it. Now almost every girl does this, right. To make thereselves look more beautiful? Well, let's just say my hair color is brown and that means my hair is pretty ...

Hi Everyone,
I am posting this information in case it can help anyone else. My 12 year old daughter has had trich for 5 years. We tried EVERYTHING and it just seemed to get worse and worse. She had no eyelashes, no eyebrows, big bald spots and scabs on her scalp, it was pretty bad. She started a drug called Clomipramine (Anafranil) about 4 months ago and it is really helping. Her dr. did not ...

So, I don't know exactly when my problem started, I think it was when I was around 14, it started with me just pulling the split ends in my hair, my friends at school would poke me and nudge me - because most of the time I didn't know I was doing it.

Then it grew into the constant need to find a particular type of hair, it was thicker, and felt different to most ...

i was just wondering if this specific habit wouls still be considered trich.
i started pulling the hair from my scalp when i was twelve. i was stressed out at the time and it got to the point to where i had a prickley/ bald patch on the top of my head. a few years later i grew out of it. fifteen years later i find that i still zone in on specific imperfections. ingrown ...

Title says it all...been PF for 2 days now. Trying to be VERY conscience of where my hands are and NOT to pull. Just needed to get that off my chest. :)

Hi, I'm wondering what others do with the hairs as you're pulling them out?

I start first pulling my hair out when i was about 12ish but i stopped then for a good few years. I really got bad again at the age of 18 this was the year i was sitting my exams and leaving secondary school i had a bald patch at the front of my head. I got a fringe so it solved it for a while so i moved to the back of my head ...