Hi, I am 19 years old. Is there anyone in Southern California with trich?? I have never met anyone who did it to. Its scary and I hate it. I need to talk to...
Hi everyone. Well, it is so nice that this group is here. Sometimes I feel so all alone with my struggles. Right now I am happy because I have been pull free...
Congratulations! I'm also a mutliple-location puller (eyebrows, eyelashes, arms, and shaving stubble) and decided that I can't go cold-turkey; instead, I...
I haven't any idea, except that TLC (the Trichotillomania Learning Center) IS in California. There were several therapists here about ten, 11 years ago or so...
who here has discovered the key to stop eyelash pulling? i stop for a month or two and just start up again. any hope? does anybody have a prob like they...
I am a eyelash puller myself and have been free from it now for about 3 weeks. There is hope. I myself have been embarrassed a lot because of bald spots and...
oh my god!!!!!!!!!!! i started pulling when i was 7...i got glasses at 9lets not even discuss,getting glasses is bad enough but having no lashes on top of it...
Hi everyone, I'm Brazilian and suffer from TTM sice I was 3 (I'm 30 now). I joined a TTM yahoo group in Brazil and that helped me a lot on controlling my...
i just joined this site myself.ipull lashes and brows i need to meet people.how do i STOP? Vanessa <vhelfenstein@...> wrote: Hi everyone, I'm Brazilian...
If we knew that, Nickol, we wouldn't be here. :) I think the trick is to find ways to stop that work best for you. Different people have different methods....
i don't even know any method of stopping.what scares me is i've become so use to this and comforted by it. Kathy Bohnenberger <kathyb0502@...> wrote: ...
3 weeks?awsome...i'd be happy with just 3 days pull free tigger197628 <tigger197628@...> wrote: I am a eyelash puller myself and have been free from it...
My main issue is w/ pulling out hair on my head. It developed pretty recently, so I'm hoping to get this under control before I get too used to it and do too...
Hi Everyone, In the group I am part in Brazil we suggested - and that is working for some people - the following: - only for today I'll not pull (and start...
I definitely suffer anxiety. But it's like the chicken and the egg; I don't know if I started to pull because of the anxiety, or the anxiety is because I...
Here's a site some of you may not know about... http://www.trich.org/home/default.asp It has lots of information on different treatment options for trich, as...
ok so i heard that keeping your hands busy is good..does anyone know how to croshay or anything and could teach me or something?? i need to keep my hands...
Leah, I think you mean crochet? Yeah, that along with plenty of other works and needle crafts that require you to use your hands seems to work. You could...
I make bracelets and anklets of craft string. just type in 'how to crochet' or something on google, a whole buncha results come up. It's actually working ...
hey, its tiffany, i don't really write much, but i am 15 , from mississippi, and have been pulling for 8 years...i have a question, this may seem strang to...
Hi Tiffany: A number of people on this list, myself included, have said we sometimes eat the ends of the pulled hair. Some people just run the bulbous part...
hey shayla, its nice to meet you, i too eat my hair. my story, when i was 7 my grandfather died, and all these preoblems started occuring. ptsd was one, and...
Tiffany, and everyone else... Regarding the hairball issue, just because my doctor told me one thing, and other people have said other stuff, remember......
Hi all! I was doing some research on trichotillomania, and found the following Web site: http://www.vh.org/adult/patient/psychiatry/trichotillomania/ It's a...
Hi tifffany I'm not shayla. But I also pull my hair I started when I was about 12 years old and have'nt quit yet. Now I'm 27 and still pulling it. My doctors...
Tiffany Lee <dixiechick654@...> wrote:hey, its tiffany, i don't really write much, but i am 15 , from mississippi, and have been pulling for 8 years...i...
hey, zoloft helps a little but not a lot, i have ocd, and it works wonders with that, but it really doesn't help the trich that terribly much, i'm sorry to...
