Trichotillomania (Hair Pulling) Support Group
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because of my current living arrangements, its really hard to get to a grocery store or a drug store. (i don't have a car right now and its kinda far away)
This week, my tweezer stopped working. it won't pull ANYTHING. which on one end, i know my former therapist would think is GREAT. But i think it is AWFUL. i find myself with my tweezer just pulling at "bad" hairs for what feels like FOREVER just hoping EVENTUALLY the hair will come out. (but it never does).n what could have taken one second and I would be done is now taking over 30 minutes and makes me so much more frustrated because I can't get it out no matter how hard i try.
i even find myself trying random to get the hairs out. like closing eyeshadow cases on the hair, or WHATEVER. and since these things are NOT made to get individual tiny hairs out, i find myself accidently hurting myself. ive even poked my eye a couple times (thank god nothing bad has happened yet!)
it's such a feeling of desperation! I need to find a way to a store tomorrow to get a new tweezer. But until then I feel like i might go insane. all for a couple of bad hairs!!!!!
i'm trying to ignore the feeling and use a stress ball (which i think is ready to explode) but i just feel heavy with anxiety that won't go away. It's literally, 2 or 3 hairs, and its driving me insane!
ugh, sorry thanks for listening to me vent!
This week, my tweezer stopped working. it won't pull ANYTHING. which on one end, i know my former therapist would think is GREAT. But i think it is AWFUL. i find myself with my tweezer just pulling at "bad" hairs for what feels like FOREVER just hoping EVENTUALLY the hair will come out. (but it never does).n what could have taken one second and I would be done is now taking over 30 minutes and makes me so much more frustrated because I can't get it out no matter how hard i try.
i even find myself trying random to get the hairs out. like closing eyeshadow cases on the hair, or WHATEVER. and since these things are NOT made to get individual tiny hairs out, i find myself accidently hurting myself. ive even poked my eye a couple times (thank god nothing bad has happened yet!)
it's such a feeling of desperation! I need to find a way to a store tomorrow to get a new tweezer. But until then I feel like i might go insane. all for a couple of bad hairs!!!!!
i'm trying to ignore the feeling and use a stress ball (which i think is ready to explode) but i just feel heavy with anxiety that won't go away. It's literally, 2 or 3 hairs, and its driving me insane!
ugh, sorry thanks for listening to me vent!
I hope you don't mind me posting this, but have you considered meds? My daughter is on clomipramine and it is working, so I'm just trying to get the word out...
I know that not every type of medicine reacts the same with everyone and there may very well be a medicine that would be great for me, but I can't afford to keep trying them out and sacrificing my school work. I will be in school the next 5 years and so until I'm done i'm just too nervous to keep trying them with my past experience.
I was doing a lot better when I was in therapy, but I had to change schools and move to another city and so I had to stop therapy. I will be looking for a new therapist at the beginning of fall but I've definitely noticed I have been worse lately!
The Clomipramine was kind of rough on my daughter at first. We started at 25mg, and then went up by another 25mg every five days. At first, it gave her terrible dry mouth and made her dizzy. Sometimes we could not add at the 5 day mark, and once we had to go back down because she was really dizzy and had to come home from dance class. So, for the most part, she would get over the side effects, and then we would increase the dose and they would come back for a while. FInally, when we got to 200mg, the pulling stopped. She has been at 200mg for about 2 months, and the side effects have gone away. Of course, she was dealing with 6th grade instead of grad school (-: