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My trichotillomania: pulling out my eyelashes87

Trichotillomania Shame: The Secret Hair Pulling Compulsion

I want to share my experience with Trichotillomania to show that myself and fellow trichsters are not alone. I also hope that just by paying attention to myself and chronicling my actions, I can eventually decrease the compulsion. Most importantly, I want to start a discussion based on experience and suggestion that can help all of us trichsters find solutions together!

44 comments    health advice hair
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Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS)

Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, or EDNOS, is a mental illness characterized by disordered eating patterns that do not meet the full diagnostic criteria for anorexia or bulimia.

5 comments    health mental health diagnosis
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Bach Flower Remedies: Crab Apple And OCD

The Bach flower remedy Crab Apple stands for perfect order and balance but when there is need for it in the body, the person takes it to an extreme and wants everything around him to be flawlessly perfect. It...

15 comments    health natural remedies ocd
Lose Weight with EFT Tapping80

Emotional Freedom Technique - Top 5 Ways EFT Helps You Lose Weight

Emotional Freedom Technique is a method of redirecting the body's energy patterns, Based on Eastern medicine, this simple technique has helped thousands of people overcome emotional, psychological and even...

10 comments    health diet weight loss
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OCD: An Anxiety Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is one of the most common mental disorders; however, it is also one of the most misunderstood. It is only too normal nowadays to hear or even say phrases such as “I’m...

2 comments    health depression panic attacks
Phishing Expedition79

How To Tell If Someone Is Lying To You On The Internet

Phishing Expedition 1. They contact you via spam. I don't care what treasures of the world they offer you, what kind of improvements to your life they promise to deliver or how great and seductive it all...

2 comments    lying eyes compulsive lying
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The Truth Mushroom - An Imaginative Short Story on Compulsive Truth Telling

This is to introduce one of my free online short stories from the writing and literature section of hubpages.  If you like free short stories and good short stories online, then feel free to visit my hubs...

13 comments    online short story short stories
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Phobias, and how to cope with them

Most of us experience fear at various points in our lives, but the basis for this fear is usually justifiable. Anxiety for the safety of our children, fear of a potentially harmful or lethal situation, panic...

13 comments    health anxiety disorder phobia
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A CERTIFIED SHOPAHOLIC: TIPS ON HOW TO COPE WITH THIS ADDICTION

Do you love to shop? Are you an impulsive buyer? Do you take pleasure in shopping? Do you spend a LOT of money whenever you go shopping? Are you the type that buys items using credit cards if you don’t have...

6 comments    shopping lifestyle credit card
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When Collecting Becomes a More Serious Problem of Hoarding

People love to collect items that remind them of childhood, favorite movie characters or items that they didn’t have growing up. I collected small ceramic animals mostly from Germany and later started to...

2 comments    advice family how to
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