Sunday is Day 23 since i first began making an effort.

Have 20 stickers on my calendar because I didn't count the 3 days in which I pulled hair.

And I guess after Friday when I pulled a hair (so close!) Sunday is DAY 2 of what I hope to be a long-ass streak of consecutive days in which I don't even THINK about touching my scalp.

DAY 2! Time to do the work I've been procrastinating since Friday

Nice work!!! I'm going to make a big calendar to put stickers on when I get pf days.

Go Trish :)

Tuesday is DAY 4.......

Need to WORK AND NOT PROCRASTINATE TODAY. Because when I procrastinate I feel bad and THEN I PULL!!!

Today is day 4 for me too! Go trish!

Well I think I technically got through most of this day without pulling, I sure did PLAY with my hair a lot -- touching, pulling split ends, running hands through hair, etc. It's look as soon as I stopped pulling out my hair I can't stop noticing what bad condition it is in --- knots, split ends, dry cracked ends --- drives me CRAZY!!!

Looks like Im gonna have to work late and get up early so lets see how well I do. I still have my most important factor in place, which is the DESIRE TO NOT PULL.

I resisted sooooooo many urges last night.

I did good.

Day 5.

Ideally I would like to make it through today without even touching my head.

I am touching and playing with my hair more than I think is ideal.

I think we all play more than the ideal amount.

Woop woop for resisting those urges :)

congrats on resisting. It gets so hard. YAY TO DAY 5!!!

How's it going trish?

Still resisting urges to pull and boy oh boy do I still get a lot of those!!

I guess we are now at about 1 month pretty much pull free, and about 10 straight days with no pulling (I have definitely chewed on my hair though!! Gross)

Since I am such a neurotic perfectionist of course I feel the urge to explain what I mean by pull free. I feel like I have, in part, replaed the habit of pulling out my hair with running my hands through it, chewing or sucking the tips, etc. So in the past month I have definitely had hairs come out as a result of chewing or combing my hair with my fingers. BUT I dont see the point in getting freaked out about this because the real achievement is I have spent long amounts of time at my computer, stressed and panicky, and have resisted SO MANY URGES TO PULL and then play with the hair. This is a super huge victory and it means I am finishing the year FULL OF OPTIMISM AND PRIDE!!

I also have a long update on TrichWorld which I might as well re-post here, for the Record.

Yeah I replace pulling with running bunches of about 10 hairs through my mouth, then running those through the gaps between my fingers. I also "scrape" the kinky hairs with my fingernails. Not doing that one at the moment though, as it's so damaging.

You are doing fantastically!!!! So so good. Your attitude is great, and I love the way you are calculating and monitoring your progress. Agreed, you definitely should be proud :)

Last 2 days I pulled out 1 hair each because I was stressed and playing with hair so much (it wasn't a deliberate pull, more like I was playing with my hair, twisting a couple of strands into a knot, then the knot came out in my hand when i was twisting it).

So we are about at 1 month pull free, 2 PF streaks of 10 days and 20 days respectively, and I think something like 4 days in which I pulled 1 hair.

NOT TOO SHABBY. At least the next 2 weeks is winter vacation and I plan to not TOUCH my hair at all. GET STICKERS. Then in January.... haircut????

Oh yeah doing great!!! :)

You'll definitely need more stickers. Haircut, ooooooh!

yes. get some pretty pretty stickers!
oooooo haircut!!! exciting!