Discussion Anyone else have trichotillomania?

[Leonszabs]

I have been suffering with trichotillomania for I believe ten years now. When I first started developing it, I started to pull out my hair until my fingers would be red and hurt incredibly bad. I also suffer with an anxiety disorder so when I get anxious it is like a domino effect watching myself start to do certain things because I am getting overwhelmed. I used to use eyebrow makeup, and it looked bad, but I didn't know what else to do lol. I was also a young child, so I was just doing whatever I could to hide how I actually looked. You can't really hide having no eyelashes though.

 

[Redacted24]

For as long as I can remember!
Eyebrows are what I pull. I get obvious holes in them.

 

[qwert3948]

i also do but it's not super extreme. i had it for a first time when i was in childhood (came along with many other habits like nail biting and skin picking), but because my mom would bother me so much about it i stopped with it. recently i've started again, though i'm not sure what trigerred it.

 

[scatterbrained]

I don't have trichotillomania, but I do have dermatillomania (skin picking). My fingers are pretty scarred and it burns to use hand sanitizer sometimes. It's something I start doing unconsciously and it's difficult to make myself stop.

I've had it since the 2nd grade and I've never managed to quit. The only time I came close, my brain just replaced it with a lip-chewing habit. Now I do both. :P

Since your trichotillomania comes from anxiety, maybe you could replace the habit with a stress toy or something? Sorry if that's advice you've heard a million times before. >.<