Wow Lindsay, that's a very drastic and brave! When I was younger that was my parents solution. They couldn't stop me from pulling so they shaved my head, it just made me much more self conscious and shy throughout my entire childhood and early teens. I am still quite shy now and put it down to that. I didn't have a wig though.

Someone once told me that to stop a habit you have to catch yourself and stop 300 times in a row, I suppose if you shave your head it would help you to notice when you pull because it's a lot more effort to pull shorter hairs (impossible to pull a shaved head obviously :-p), would help you stop yourself maybe? Keep us up to date Lindsey, I know I will be on here for support if you need it.

Well, one method I use is if I go a day without pulling, I will out a bead on the bracelet. When I pull, I have to start ALL OVER. Maybe you would want to try it out :)

Thank you Tom, and believe it or not as soon as I shaved it the first time it's almost like a weight was lifted off of my shoulders. The first day I went to work I felt like everyone could tell and was very self conscious ( even though I had a wig on, you could still see my side burns were gone) the first night and next day I felt so sick to my stomach and discusted that I didn't even want to touch my head, which as you know soon changed. Lol it's nice though to be able to rub my head and not worry about if I'm going to pull, it's nice to just rub my head period now. They only way I can pick is with tweezers and its after almost 2 days if being grown out, so that's why I've desided to shave everyday. Treating this like a soberity I feel is the way to go. I've tried punishing myself like you have described (theworld...) but it never seems to work and when I give in its like I benige and go crazy with picking, but thank you so much for your advice. It never hurts to share methods Because it may help someone else, unfortuntly mine is past that :( I can't control it that well anymore. Before I shaved it I had pulled 70% of my hair on my scalp and had to buzz it because all I had left was a "rat tail" I pray to god this works. I was able to walk out of work yesterday without my wig on so I already feel a little more comfortable with letting people see my bald head. There has to be a way to beat this, we all deserve to live normal lives again.

Indeed, and I am sure there is a way. I am confident.

If you watch my videos (I posted another topic) I talk a lot about just taking my mind off of things, but it's not been very effective recently.

I'm glad you are feeling positive about it though, that's a big step. :-)