stop pulling out my hair

I grew my eyebrows out. Still cant leave my scalp alone. its a HUGE step for me and I am proud of myself

So i’m working on day # 6 of not pulling! I’m staying strong and positive. My 1st minigoal is nearly complete! then on to the second. the minigoals help.. because im making accomplishments within the goal.. it motivates me more!

Hey I’m new here my is Brittany and I’ve been pulling my hair since I was in middle school.I used to have medium long black hair now I only a some of hair left and I guess a alot of bald spatches.I haven’t counted them yet.My mom used to help with my disorder but sadly she passed away in June 2006 sometimes I wish it was me that died instead of her.Sometimes I just want pull out the rest of my hair out often i wish there was a miracle pill to make it grow back.Right now I’m wearing a scrap or sometimes my older brother’s old army hat.This picture that I’m using is the one way before i started pulling out my hair again.I think I’ve pulled out my hair 3 or 4 times it’s exhausting and depressing.I found this vitmain online it is supposed to stop us from pulling our hair out.It is called N-Acetyl Cysteine you can get from Swansonvitmains.com it costs $5.99.I’m hoping to buying a bottle soon because I really want to try and get my hair braid someday when all my hair goes long enough for it to be braided up.I thought I was the only one who had this disorder until i heard my cousin from Flordia had Trich too.

i pull my hair out like everyday nonstop. its only behind my ears and at the bottom, but bald spots are forming and im embarassed to have my hair up in a ponytail, because my friends all make fun of me for having a baldspot & pulling my hair out. they think im weird. ive read some of these sites about hair pulling & i only pull my hair out when im feeling stressed or sad. & also after i get a strand i like i feel happy so i keep pulling. im worried im going to become obsessed and become totally bald. should i tell my mom that i pull my hair out ? heelppp .

This is my most frustrating obsticle ever. I have been battling it for years. Sometimes i dont even know im doing it.

I’m quite pissed cuz i just wrote this really long and helpful thing about how confidence in yourself is the key to stop pulling out your hair and it deleted! :( I’ll come back tomorrow or so to write it again cuz its empowering to hear your own motivating words.

I haven’t pulled in almost 4 weeks! I never thought it’d be possible. I guess if you really want to change, you can.

The first week was the worst! I kept reaching my hand up without realizing it and stroking a hair. I’d immediately catch myself and stop. My hands needed to be busy. Something to squeeze on would’ve definitely helped. Now, I hardly think about it anymore. Last night, I had a dream I was doing it. I wasn’t mad at myself. In the dream, I had never even quit doing it. Maybe it’s a sign of my mind letting it go as history. Who knows.

I also had this nasty habit of picking at my thumbs, nails and cuticles. Sometimes I would pick until they bled. Yeah, trust me, I know. I’ve been doing THAT since I was in 2nd grade. I stopped this at the same time.

I rewarded myself with a new hair style at a REAL salon. My hair already looks much better and the stylist even said I had beautiful hair. No more frayed ends and random wild short hairs. Well, maybe the random short hairs will last a few months, but I’d rather have those than none :)

i have this problem too and i have had it for five years

I started pulling out my hair in April of 1999, when I was 14. I’m now 24. I had always played with my hair, since I was 3. Twirling it (as I saw my mother doing) but also twisting it into knots accidentally. My mother would then have to cut the knots from my hair. In middle school I started playing with my split ends, pulling them apart, but not out.

It wasn’t until after I was hit by a van while I was riding my bike did I start to pull. My head had broke the van’s windshield, pulling a small patch of my hair out (strands became locked into the broken glass). I remember touching the sensitive spot on my scalp where the hair had been ripped out over and over again in the week after. I could barely walk and spent most of my time laying on the couch over the course of a couple weeks. My obsession with the spot grew and soon I was pulling my hair out, one by one.

After so long, I knew I would go bald or have patches if I didn’t do something. For the past 8 years, I’ve been doing a combination of stroking the hair until it falls out or finding one that piques my interest and holding on to the root while pulling until the strand snaps, so I still get the ‘pleasure’ of pulling but without pulling the root from my scalp.

I’m sick of this! I have tons of short hairs that stick up in every direction and lots of split ends from snapping my hair. A lot of people don’t know this about me, but I should start to talk about it. I think it’d help in preventing me from doing it. I’ve been doing this for 10 years…I want this anniversary to be the last.

I feel so relieved that other people are going through it too. I always thought that I was the only person who did this because nobody ever talks about this. I’ve been pulling my hair out for 7 or 8 years now and gave myself horrible bald patches. Although it’s not as bad as it used to be, I haven’t stopped and now it’s really testing my will power as the hair is growing back. It’s rubbish having short patches of hair that stick up, but I know that eventually it will grow out completely. I can’t wait until I can say that I have stopped completely :D