I Have Trichotillomania Stories of Experiences

It all started in year 5 i am 23 years old now. Well it sounds silly but a friend said if i pull a eyebrow out and make a wish it will come true and since i had a crush on a boy in my class i kept wishing for that than all of a sudden i...

i don't know when it started. sometime during seventh grade before of after my little brother died. I started pulling hair from the back of my head. I couldn't help but pull it. I didn't know I was doing it till I told my grandmother I...

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I can't "just stop" pulling out my hair.
I can't "just stop" eating the ends.
I can't "just stop" picking my skin.
I can't "just stop" these stress habits.
I can't "just stop" being stressed in general.
I can't "just stop" having...

You can break your disease with Trichotillomania! I did!

I use to pull my hair out everyday when i was 13 till I was 16.
I tried dying my hair, cutting my hair, wearing gloves, and doing activites to stop pulling out my hair.
We...

Where do I begin... I was always a normal girl had lots of friends was happy healthy until my parents split up. At first it wasn't just hair pulling it was cutting and burning... In 5th grade.. I stopped that for awhile then highschool...

I've had Trich since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the very day it started, too. It was "nap time" at school and I couldn't sleep so I started pulling out my eyelashes and lining them up on my pillow.

I struggled with pulling...

Hello everyone.. i have trich too.. and it started at the age of 10 i think... I really liked the way the eyelashes of chinese are ( thin and short) and i had very long eyelashes.. so i just took a pair of scissors and trimmed it...

It's sad I can remember the day it started... I had a rough childhood with being bullied by classmates and the teachers themselves, abuse from a step dad and being shunned by my biological fathers side of the family. I was about 6 when...

My story is little funny. when I was in 8th grade, one of my class fellows asked me to pull out my hair from head and he stick my hair to a paper. then he asked me to blow it off. I try a lot by blowing air from my mouth but can't do it...

I'm 19 scince I was 7 I started with my eyelashes then eyebrows then the hair on my head I was almost completely bald untill I was 13 I grew back all my hair and my eyebrows when I was about 16 but was never ablehto stop pulling my...

I have been pulling my hair on and off since I was ten years old. I go thr stages In my life and pull when I am stressed. I haven't pulled for a few years but started again after lising my mum a few months ago. I now have a bald patch...

I started shaving my legs when I was 10, because I didn't want any body hair. As soon as I needed to, I started shaving under my arms and my bikini area. Eventually, I started shaving my arms too..

I always twirled my hair (and then...

I need to stop this. People are noticing the absence of my hair and I get scared when I see myself in the mirror. Has anyone found something that could help me stop pulling out my hair? Even if it's not a complete cure, I'll do almost...

Reading all these stories about people with Trichotillomania, has somewhat helped me stopped pulling my eyelashes out, I have realised I'm the ONLY person who's causing this pain and depression and I'm the ONLY one who can stop it.
I'm...

I started pulling out my eyelashes in 5th grade, at the age of 11. I remember the precise moment. My friend told me that if I pull out an eyelash, I can make a wish. Wouldn't you know it - I made many wishes. It wasn't so bad at...

How often do hair pulling/eating and skin picking/eating come together?
I eat my scabs, my nails, and the skin around my nails, and I love the taste of my own blood. It gets embarrassing when my friends point it out or when my fingers...

There are days when I get tired of looking down and seeing the toilet bowl filled with hair.
There are days when I get scared seeing clumps of hair next to me on my bed.
There are days when I tell myself that I will never pull my hair...

I have two sisters. One of them is my twin sister and its so hard looking at someone so much like you having everything u want and need eyelashes. But I'm not going to talk about her right now. My older sister has some issues I guess...

I first got trich this year in the beginning of eigth grade. I sat in class and just started picking out my eyebrow and eyelash hair. I didnt know why at first I thought it was just for when i was bored... But there wasent there was a...

Update after my last post: I can't seen to do better. I have now started pulling out my pubic hairs and I'm not happy about it. I still pull in places I said I did in my last post.