Trichotillomania (Hair Pulling) Support Group
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im sorry I just need to vent a little and hopefully someone can relate.
So the other night me and my mom watched that 20/20special on trichotillamania. And after watching it I started crying. Only because I feel like I have a severe case of trich. Watch the girl be able to shave her head and not pull made me jealous I think or just mad about the situation I'm in. When I was younger I pulled with my fingers, but at some point I realized I could use tweezers to pull out my hair on my head too. Before I would only use the tweezers when pulling hairs out from my legs.
Then after that I just started pulling my hairs with tweezers and not my fingers. Sometimes I feel like I really do have a severe case for of trich because not only do I pull my hairs on my head out, I pull my leg? Bikini line and sometimes pubic area, my eyebrows and eyelashes too it's like I pull my all over my body, where as most people I guess only pull from a few other areas besides there hair.
I started shaving all my hair off a few years ago but it didn't really help because I stilled pulled my hair out with the tweezers.
But starting at the beginning of this year I decided to try and grow my hair out. I have had ups and downs. Where I start to grab the hair with my nails and pulling it out. I would end up filing my nails to nubs, but would find myself still trying even though it hurt my nails.
Then my hair would get long enough to pull with my fingers again. So after having 3 big bare spots I shaved again but started over. And I've just kinda repeated the whole thing over except this time I found a pair of my grandmas tweezers and try not to use them only when the urge is really really bad. And now I have a fairly big bare/bald spot on the side of my head and kinda at the hairline. So I don't know what I'm going to do. For now just keep going day by day I guess. I taken NAC 600mg pills 4 times a day then stopped because I felt it wasn't really helping. Then read about MSM l, so I started taking that praying it would be some kind of miracle pill, nope so now I'm taking 4 MSM 1000mg pills a day plus the NAC to see if maybe combining them will help. So far after a week nothing yet.
I know by now that I will never be pull free, I just wanna be able to stop long enough to get a full head of hair. Sorry I just really wanted to vent and tell everyone what I've been going through maybe get advice.
So the other night me and my mom watched that 20/20special on trichotillamania. And after watching it I started crying. Only because I feel like I have a severe case of trich. Watch the girl be able to shave her head and not pull made me jealous I think or just mad about the situation I'm in. When I was younger I pulled with my fingers, but at some point I realized I could use tweezers to pull out my hair on my head too. Before I would only use the tweezers when pulling hairs out from my legs.
Then after that I just started pulling my hairs with tweezers and not my fingers. Sometimes I feel like I really do have a severe case for of trich because not only do I pull my hairs on my head out, I pull my leg? Bikini line and sometimes pubic area, my eyebrows and eyelashes too it's like I pull my all over my body, where as most people I guess only pull from a few other areas besides there hair.
I started shaving all my hair off a few years ago but it didn't really help because I stilled pulled my hair out with the tweezers.
But starting at the beginning of this year I decided to try and grow my hair out. I have had ups and downs. Where I start to grab the hair with my nails and pulling it out. I would end up filing my nails to nubs, but would find myself still trying even though it hurt my nails.
Then my hair would get long enough to pull with my fingers again. So after having 3 big bare spots I shaved again but started over. And I've just kinda repeated the whole thing over except this time I found a pair of my grandmas tweezers and try not to use them only when the urge is really really bad. And now I have a fairly big bare/bald spot on the side of my head and kinda at the hairline. So I don't know what I'm going to do. For now just keep going day by day I guess. I taken NAC 600mg pills 4 times a day then stopped because I felt it wasn't really helping. Then read about MSM l, so I started taking that praying it would be some kind of miracle pill, nope so now I'm taking 4 MSM 1000mg pills a day plus the NAC to see if maybe combining them will help. So far after a week nothing yet.
I know by now that I will never be pull free, I just wanna be able to stop long enough to get a full head of hair. Sorry I just really wanted to vent and tell everyone what I've been going through maybe get advice.
I would strongly suggest throwing out the tweezers. I will still hunt for mine, even though they've been gone for several months now. Oh, and tweezers at CVS are expensive for me (ha ha).
I shaved my hair in August 2014 and then went to work. My co-workers have been supportive, the students I work with, not so much. I am trying to face the anxieties I have around Trich. I cut hair again about three weeks ago.
The pins and needles I feel are agitating, so I gravitated to other areas (as usual). I have observed that this just makes it worse for what I feel in my scalp. I also clipped my nails and if I had the money, I would go to the salon for a manicure (this helped several years ago when I had money).
I'm not sure what pills you cited. I am taking low doses of fish oil.
Lots of hugs!