New Year! Tomorrow I have to start work again so I need to be ON TOP OF MY PULLING. I believe I have spent the last 11 days (winter vacation, hurray) pull free, although sadly I am still running my hands through my hair and playing with it a lot. This definitely results in hairs falling out (I have also become a bit obsessed with fiddling with the dry and split ends). BUT what matters is I have not done the pulling behavior and I HAVE RESISTED IT and PUT MY HAND DOWN every time it wanders up to my old pulling spots (which it still does).

I guess I should also make my hair appointment. GULP.

Woo!! Good job :)

No touching is damn hard..

No touching is freaking hard.

I'm going to start my recount tomorrow because the past two days I have been picking and even pulling at the tips of my hair, telling myself as long as i dont pull a long hair out by the root it "doesn-t count."

yes it does!! I am still damaging my hair and making it uneven.

Tomorrow DAY 1 HANDS DOWN SURF THE URGES OHHHHH IT-S GONNA BE A TOUGH ONE........

I'm for cutting off the tips of hairs if you have to. You might make it uneven if you do it a lot, but at least it doesn't damage the hairs like pulling and picking at them does.

Congrats on restarting. I know it's hard, but the more you tell yourself that a couple hairs "don't count," the more easily it escalates into major pulling. Believe me, I've found that out the hard way, waaaaay too many times. Good luck with day 1. Is it 2 or 3 now, perhaps? :)

I made it through my first week at work WITHOUT pulling out my scalp hair!! This is really good last. Last year I had 2 weeks pull free during my winter vacation, then I immediately derailed as soon as I went back to work.

So the super scary part is next Friday I have an appointment at a SCARY SCARY HAIR SALON!!!! I found it through the trich.org website, they say they deal with customers with trich frequently. My original plan was to tell the hairdresser on the phone that I have had hair loss and I am sensitive about it but I just could not make the words come out.

This is when it would be helpful to have a close friend who knows about my trich cuz otherwise I would seriously make them call the hair salon and tell them that I have had hair loss, because I so do not want to do it.

But I am probably gonna do it myself when I go in there Friday because well, I won't
have a choice. It's either get an expensive haircut now or pick at my shabby hair for the rest of the year.

Tomorrow I am going to continue focusing at not pulling out my hair or picking at the tips. If I catch myself sucking or chewing or fiddling with my hair, I will take a deep breath, remind myself "I don't want to do this," then try to find another way to distract myself.

In any case, it has been basically 50 DAYS OF NOT PULLING OUT MY HAIR. WE HAVE GOT TO KEEP IT UP! TAKE IT DAY BY DAY!!!

PULLED OUT A HAIR TODAY TRYING TO WRITE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT ARTICLE. AHHHH! SO HARD FOR ME SOMETIMES.

Hang in there, you’re doing wonderful!
First of all congrats on being a week pullfree at work!! Going to a hair salon is a big step, but taking a close friend with you seems like a great idea. You can do this! One day at a time :)
Hugs!

pulled out hair yesterday AAAND today!! I pulled out 3 just now.

We are slipping off the wagon people!!!

In my defense I've been super stressed with a writing project the past 2 days and last year I probably would have pulled out handfuls and handfuls of hair trying to complete it. Now I've only pulled maybe like 6 (I guess I pulled out some of the tips of my hair as well which is harder to count than the individual strands but still counts)

just pulled out 7 hairs.

so not allowed to touch my head for the rest of the day.

WILL POWER........

Not doing good today.....

Do you have any barriers you can use? I've had to revert back to mine. For you and me both: hands no where NEAR hair, and that's FINAL!

Mow :(

Keep repeating to yourself why you want to be pull free. Why you want to stop touching your hair.

Bad days happen but good times are comin up milhouse.

X

ha ha ha ha ha ha

I need to restart again with just NOOOOO HAIR TOUCHING AT ALL....

I forgot how easy it is to just go back to thoughtlessly pulling out my hair when writing. Think I pulled out like 8-10 today.

I So Do Not Want to Go Back to Pulling My Hair......

Hehe my feet are soaked but my cuffs are bone dry!

Ugh, doing my design work, being creative, and especially working to a deadline are my major triggers. I pulled such a big patch behind my ear when I worked for JUST ONE WEEK in an award winning design studio.

This is a good wake up call. Sometimes we need them.

You WON'T go back to pulling your hair.