from dermatillomania to trichollomania
hi, this is my first time posting on this thread. since i was 12, i've been having issues with dermatillomania. i pick every single bit of my skin that can be picked. i am now 28 and in the past year, i've decided to let my hair grow out. i haven't had long hair in a really long time and with this advent i've discovered that i'm partly starting to replace the skin picking behaviour with hair pulling. i only pull my split ends but i find it worrying that i can access my hair (it's way past my shoulders) any time, especially in public (which is something i used to avoid with skin picking due to lack of mirror / people side-eyeing me). generally, it's quice accepted to inspect your own hair as a woman in public, which removes a barrier i used to have with dermatillomania. i'm scared of developping trichollomania because it feels very similar to my skin picking compulsions. i don't want to cut my hair. but i also don't want to start pulling. what if i just end up with both body-focused repetitive behaviours? i know everyone asks the same question. how do i stop?