News of Trichotillomania Forum

Hello. I was unaware of this, but my friend has told me that I may have this trichotillomania.

I constantly pull out my hair and pick at my skin, my hair has begun falling out because of this and my arms and face are rather worn too. Is this trichotillomania? I've done this since I was about seven years old the hair pulling being a few years more recent, starting from when abuse had more ...

I recently started pulling, but I have been picking at my scalp for at least a few months now. I've always had a slight obsession with touching/playing with my hair, which is probably why it gets greasy so quickly, but now I can't seem to stop picking/pulling and its really embarrassing to have bits of skin and hairs under my nails/on my hands during school. I try to slide them down my sleeves but it ...

Hi all,

Complete newbie here!

I signed up as am worried about my husband - for the last two years he has started periodically pulling out his eyebrows.

This only happens when he has had a couple of glasses of wine, and only when I have already gone to sleep.

In the morning he doesn't have much recollection of doing it, but is always kicking himself. He describes it as having the feeling of having ...

Hello, My name is Jen, and I have trichotillomania. I have had it for about 2-3 years, but have only started learning about it a month ago. I pull my eye lashes and eye brows. Sadly, I've found a way to pull with my nails, so even when my mom hides the tweezers, I can still pull... When I pull, I pick out the short stubs that are still trying to grow back, or the ...

Hi I have been picking the skin off the bottom of my feet for about 10 yrs. When it grows back it is really thick so I pull it off again. It gets so thick that I can stick a nail file through it and then pull it off. I don't know why I started doing it. I have stopped for about a month now. I want to know if anyone else has done this ...

Hi,

I'm new to this forum. I haven't belonged to any forum since the early days of the internet, actually, but I used to post quite frequently. I pulled my eyelashes, eyebrows, and hair for 13 years, pretty much nonstop everyday. I quit in 2008 and have been abstinent ever since.

I never had any luck with the usual therapists, medication, etc. I ended up kind of making my own treatment plan, a mash-up of ...

Well I've been having so much trouble since late December 2011. Trich has currently been destroying everything for me. I can't participate in normal activities without the whole Trich thing blocking me like a boulder. For example, If I were to go swimming with friends.

It's been honestly quite hard. Every time I go out and see people with beautiful long hair I feel not envious as I'm not generally an envious person but you ...

Hello everyone! I'm new to these forums and to trich/impulse control disorders in general and I have some questions about whether or not I need to seek treatment, what kinds of treatment I should try, what I shouldn't bother with etc.

I am 21 years old and I've been biting/chewing/picking at the inside of my mouth since I was maybe 7 or 8. Eventually, and I'm not sure when, I began pulling out pubic hair. ...

Hello! My story in a nutshell is since a toddler I twirled my hair. In highschool it turned into pulling a couple times. I made a bald spot about twice. Now I've been out of highschool and it's been years before I recently started twirling and pulling and I have another bald spot. I usually stop when the spot gets big because I only feel the impluse to pull out a hair at a particular ...

I always play with my hair. I don't feel a need to do it, but I do it when I'm bored. Sometimes I end up pulling out strands of hair and eating them, I don't really remember when I started but, I've done it for a while anyway. I have read something about a hair bezoar in the stomach if you eat hair and I am really worried. Can anybody give me more info on ...