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This is my first post. For some brief history, I suffered with panic and anxiety disorder for almost 20 years. Throughout I always had OCD symptoms (even as a kid I used to use up whole bottles of glue, spending hours dumping it on my hands so I could peel it off... it was the only way I could stop picking at scabs and getting them infected), but the panic always overshadowed everything ...

But it takes time to build self control . It has been almost 26 years trichlothilomania still asks me to pull. It seems like it won't go away whole life . But I have a limit where I don't pull unnecessary hair. Every trichlothilomania sufferer has a spot . Spot is really small . But people pull hair where even trichlothilomania doesn't asks them to pull . That's a real problem.! And people get bald ...

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Hey everyone, just wanted to share some things that have kept me pull free for a couple of days, and hopefully indefinitely.
First off, wearing my glasses during times when I feel the urge to pull is really helpful. Just having an extra barrier to my eyebrows makes me have to stop and think before subconsciously doing it, so it's been super nice.
Secondly, keeping a kneaded eraser around gives me something to do with ...

I have Emetophobia and something has triggered it, and now I am terrified and not having a good day.
I am pulling out my hair, a response to the scared / paranoia that I am dealing with today. :(

I was doing good, until today, and now I am getting a new bald patch in the front. I can't shave it because we are about to go ...

Hi, my name's John. I'm seventeen years old and I've been pulling out my hair for the past 8 or so years now. In the past I've pulled out the hair on my head, my eyelashes and my eyebrows. I managed to stop for a few months completely, but it has now come back just in time for my exams... I guess stress plays a big role in triggering it. As most of you can ...

Hi, I'm new and was hoping for advice and shared understanding. Ive been pulling for about 8 years now from my scalp. the pulling comes and goes but on average, every year, I may have about 2-3 big attacks where I really go to town and then seem to spend the rest of the year waiting for things to get better only to do it again!

I am in one of those phases where I ...

Hi there. I'm new here. I've been pulling my hair out for years. It started with me pulling out my leg hairs with tweezers. I loved the feeling. The darker and thicker the hair, the better! Then I moved onto pulling my pubic hair as well as my leg hair. I liked it even more when my hairs were ingrown and I'd have to dig them out. So satisfying! Then I moved onto the top ...

Who here has heard of the John Kender diet? Are any of you on it?
Basically what it is is that John Kender, a trichster who is now 7 years pull free apparently thanks to his diet, found out that certain foods were triggering him, mostly sugary foods and after eliminating them from his diet his urges went down. His diet reportedly works for a lot of people, and seeing as most of it is ...

I pluck, I pull, and I still want to pull more. It's my coping mechanism. I'm having a particularly stressful week and all I want to do is tear apart my face, my eyebrows, my arm hair, my eyelashes, all of it. I keep having pictures of me taking a knife and stabbing myself in the leg and dragging it out. I am a masochist and I do enjoy pain. Maybe I am just in ...