Hey, I suffer with this disorder. My solution was to cut my long hair short so I can not get a grip of my hair but now my hair is almost 2 inches long I often catch my index finger rousting my crown and I know I need another hair cut.

On the last two occasions I grew my hair long I went bald so I am a compulsive sufferer and I think the drugs did not help this condition.

What really makes me upset and angry at my self is I prefer to have long hair and now I look like I.T. support. It is my self image and my image of my self that changed because of my disorder.

I understand it must be even more distressing for women as shaving your head is not an option.

Any trichs out there?

I saw this on several talk shows throughout the nineties and early twenties... they pluck their eyebrows and lashes out too. Do you do that?

I am not diagnosed, yet. But this is more of a self satisfaction, rather than pain fetish. Thanks for asking though about the talk shows but I am going to get really drunk and will be passing out very soon in an attempt to forget the pain of withdrawal from opium.

i'm a tricky.

i did shave my head the week before xmas but it's now an inch long and i'm back to hunting through my hair for the twisties...it's a habit that can't obviously be broken by 3 months of baldness. i wonder if a longer period of time will help at all as 3 months is obviously not long enough.

i've only pulled one out so far but the guilt i felt was enormous.

i do the eyelash and eyebrow thing too but not to the extreme. my eyebrows are blonde anyways so no-one really notices them and i've plucked them to almost nothing (maybe 20 hairs left on each eyebrow...lol). i've got a handle on that now and i can grow them back to caveman proportions if i want, just means a month or so of crazy spikey eyebrows that look ridiculous but like i give a ****.

lol


i haven't really done the eyelash thing for a few years but yeh, i've done it to almost nothing. it started out with me reading up on cures for styes in the eye...then you notice the ones that don't line up with the others, and then the wispy ones at the corners, then the darker ones...crazy ****. i have normal eyelashes now, i think the itching as they grew back was more annoying than the obsession to have only normal looking eyelashes on my lids. i love being a freak!

I have trich but I've only really pulled out eyelashes and eyebrows. I've been pull-free for the last two months but I've been pull-free before a few times and relapsed so I'm not entirely confident that I can stop myself from pulling again. It's ****ing frustrating, the bullies at high school used to have a field day with me.