New here - My story

Hi ! Firstly i'm delighted to find that this forum exists, i have been reading stories that just sound exactly like my plight.
I'm a 34 year old man and i believe i have been pulling out my hair for 15+ years. I'm not sure exactly when i started pulling but i do remember a hairdresser asking me about a bald spot on my fringe when i was a teenager. That was the start of the shame.
In those early years i thought nothing of it and it was not a practice i did too often so it's effect on my self confidence was nil. But as the years have progressed i have plucked more and more. I do not pull my hair on the top of my head anymore but now its my eyebrows and eyelashes. At the moment i have very few eyelashes and about 30% of my eyebrows are gone.
Every now and then i tell myself 'ok, thats it, i'm giving up !' i might last a week or 10 days and my hair will begin growing back but eventually i will cave in and once i pluck that 1 hair the cycle begins again.
My thought process is at times. 'well i have a good few hairs there so i'll be ok if i just pull 1 or 2' but it never is 1 or 2.
I have found this forum today and i have not pulled one since, i intend not to, ever again.
I will check in here every few days, even if nobody replies, it might help me keep focused on non pulling !
I'll keep reading others advice too, it can only help.

Eddy.

2nd day down...no hairs pulled. No real urge to either

3rd day down

How are you doing eddy? I used to pick at a sore on my scalp until I decided to get it stitched by the Dr. I felt healed of the problem. I told the Dr it was a habit, and she was very understanding which I think helped me quit actually.

Many years later I started picking again, but decided to just stop and was able to.

Is your habit a type of stress reliever?

Doing really great, over 1 week down
I did absent mindedly pull 1 hair on saturday, but i did it unconciously so it does not count and more important is when i realised i pulled it i did not go back for more !
Could be a stress reliever yeah. Confident now of not pulling anymore, i just twiddle my thumbs if i get even slight urges to pull !

Thought i'd come back here, i lasted 2 weeks pull free
This week i pulled non stop, no lashes left on upper eyelids, it depresses me. It was all too easy for those few weeks but now back to square one, i should have came back on here as soon as i started

So i'm going to try again, starting right NOW !

And i will post on here at least once a week, even (especially) if i start pulling !!

Feeling positive now

Yeah, I had a period of 9 days pull free recently but then I just nosedived, I know how that feels