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Hi everyone, I recently discovered the name of the.. I guess you would call disorder... that I have. I have been pulling my hair out of my head since I was 16. I think it started when I got head lice from a girl I went to school with and I was completely grossed out by the fact. I got rid of the lice quickly, but still felt gross. I was also dealing with the ...

I keep getting ingrown hairs on my pubic area from pulling which leave nasty scars and scabs. Any tips on how to remove them?

I was reading through some of these posts and thinking, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who feels like this, but it sucks that there are so many other people struggling with this!!

I am 28 and have been pulling since I was probably 10 or so. Dang, that's a long time. I can remember the first time I did it, I was going through my routine of getting out of ...

43 years and coming out.
I have only told 2 people about this my whole life, my first and second husbands.

I am a 52 year old female who has been doing this since I was about 8 or 9 years old.
I have no idea what started it.
When my parents ( who were both psychologists ) noticed the bald spots I told them I was pulling out my hair.
When it started I ...

I don't any more but back when I was about 11-12, I used to pull out my hair. It was always along the partakening of my hair, and I would pull out one hair at a time, all of the time, until my partening ended up really thick. Eventually it was like I had a really thick partening with lots of hair that was less than a centimetre long. At the hairdressers, the woman commented ...

I purchased Loreal Lash Serum it's cheap you can find it at any pharmacy and it helps hair grow back faster and thicker. I' m sure everybody is different but when I quit pulling what really helped me was seeing how much better I looked with lashes. The same thing may not help you but I figured I throw the suggestion out there to anyone who is trying to stop pulling. Good Luck ...

Hello... I'm now 22 years young and I've been pulling for as long as I can remember, But I really got bad when I was 16. I think I did it as stress relief even though I regretted doing it has soon as I did it. But If I didnt pull my anxiety level would skyrocket. I pretty much can pull any type of hair on my body without it actually hurting My eyelashes are ...

I enjoy popping my pimples and blackheads. I check my face and body more than once daily to see if there are any new stuff to pop. If I see n pimple that is ripe for popping, I can't leave it unpopped.

I enjoy picking my scabs off when I have any.

When I have a wound, I love it when flies crawl on it and feed from it. it just feels so good!

I ...

Does anyone know what causes this yet? I find it hard to beleive that with how common this is, no one has discovered a reason.

Here is an overview of my story:

I am now 24 years old, I have been pulling since I was 12 or so. I first started when I began to pluck my eyebrows for the first time. It was innocent enough, I was just trying to learn how to do it to shape my brows. But from the first time I saw a root...... oh boy, I was hooked. I had no idea what it ...