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The Facts Behind Self-Injury

Self-injury, self-harm or self-mutilation is defined as a deliberate, intentional injury to one’s own body that causes tissue damage or leaves marks. This is done to cope with an overwhelmingly stressful...

44 comments    therapist cutting burning
My trichotillomania: pulling out my eyelashes90

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!

43 comments    health advice hair
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Trichotillomania: Things That Help

Trichotillomania is a compulsion to pull your hair or pick your skin, sometimes with the added complication of eating the pulled hair. Although the actual health dangers are few, except for those who eat...

0 comments    health advice relationships
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How to stop pulling out eyelashes

If you're daily struggling with the insidious urge for pulling out eyelashes then you are not alone. There is a surprisingly big number of people in the world who are struggling with this same problem. The...

1 comment    trichotillomania hair pulling eyelash pulling
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Why My Family Adopted The Funeral Director

Guardian Angel Friendships are occasionally forged under the strangest of circumstances and sometimes you find true kindness in an unexpected place. When you think about how random life is, is it so odd that...

9 comments    family humor funny
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Trichotillomania - What To Do When You're a Puller

Image via HealthOfChildren.com Trichotillomania (or Trich for short) is an impulse control disorder characterized by the pulling out of hair from the scalp, eyelashes, pubic area, underarms, beard, chest,...

0 comments    hair therapy disorder
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Eyelash pulling

Many people feel powerless in their battle against the overwhelming eyelash pulling urge. No matter how hard they try to resist it, they invariably cave in to that insidious habit. If not treated, this...

0 comments    hair pulling trichotillomania
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How to Stop Hair Pulling

If your a hair puller you're not alone in this world. There are many people around the world right now who are yanking out bits of hair from everywhere from their head and eyebrows to their pubic region. In...

0 comments    anxiety trichotillomania
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Are You Pulling Your Hair?

Are you pulling out your hair? Is there some sort of urge, like a very strong habit, that causes you to do so? Does it make you feel bad about yourself when you can't stop? You are not alone! Hair pulling...

0 comments    hair pulling trichotillomania
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I have Trich

What I am about to discuss is one of my biggest secrets that no one really knows about me. There is no other way to put this except to say that I have Trich; a.k.a trichotillomania. Try saying that 5 times....

0 comments    anxiety real eyelashes
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