I feel so embarrassed. I was doing so fucking well like 2 months ago, I was pulling my hair a lot less, but more recently, I’ve been pulling a LOT of my hair. I can feel the bald spots and I’ll only notice the amount of hair I pulled once it’s too late. I don’t know what to do…
first three pics are today after shaving it and last pic is from the other day, genuinely feel so much better about myself and dont know why i waited so long to do this. definitely feels different and got some stares at walmart but whatever lol
>i've had trich for 4 years and i've tried a lot of stuff. some of it worked for a week and then i just stopped using it. curious what's actually stuck for people here, and also what you tried and gave up on and why.
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>especially interested in the subconscious pulling because i dont even know when im doing it
Im 16 years old and ive been doing it since i was 10 when covid hit. Ive been going to therapy on and off since i was a kid for similar things such as skin picking, ed, and tried to get diagnosed with ADHD but since im a teenager and a girl my former therapist said it would be difficult. I had stopped for about 2 years and i recently started again bad. I have patched of short hairs, bald stops, my part is thinning, and i dont know what to do. I just want to feel pretty again like all my other friends. People have started pointing it out and asking what happened. Im using bleach accident as an excuse bug i just need help. Its been worse before to the point where it was scabbing but that was years ago, jm just afraid what this will become if i cant stop this episode. Im sorry for the manic grammar and typos, im just really stressed and upset right now. Any advice would be appreciated, i heard about NAC but idk since ADHD runs in my family and apparently it doesn’t work well with that.
I'm 32 and I developed trich around 3-4 years ago. I pull from my scalp. Since it's begun I've been very open about it. I will truly talk about it with anyone. Any person who has had several personal conversations with me knows. I also pull in public so I know that people notice even if I've never addressed it. Everyone's first comment is "Oh I noticed you were doing that."
While I'm thankful that I feel okay talking about it, I've noticed that it makes others feel weird. I can tell that they don't know what to say or sometimes that they pity me. It makes me sad because I'm not sharing as means of solving my problem, it's more about being open about who I really am. I wish that there wasn't so much stigma around hairloss in women. I know that trich doesn't make any sense really and so it's confusing for people. I just wish they understood that it's just as confusing for those suffering from it.
My 7 year old developed trich a few months ago and his eyelashes are pretty much gone 🥺. He tells me he pulls a lot at school, and I’m trying to think of ways to help him when I’m not there.
Has anyone found anything effective either for themselves or their kids at school? He doesn’t want to use obvious fidgets because he’s self conscious and doesn’t like when kids ask him what he’s holding or playing with. I’ve told him he can sit on his hands or make fists etc but his urge to pull is so strong. We started therapy but the therapist wasn’t a good fit, so we’re switching to a psychologist with a lot of experience in the field, but unfortunately she has a waitlist so I’m on my own figuring it out for now.
At home it’s also a major problem. He wears little silicone finger tips which did help for the first week or so but now he just takes them off and pulls. The only thing that really works is physically stopping his hands and redirecting him (he asks me to help him stop, it’s never forceful). His poor eyes are getting so red and itchy.
He’s becoming stressed about going to school because he knows he’ll do it there and can’t stop. If anyone has any idea of how the teacher can maybe help or anything else I can do, I’m all ears. Thank you!