I am 14 and I have trich. It's horrible, but I have learned to deal with it. It started in the 4th grade. It ruined my life until I realized I could just wear a wig. The kids at school are unbearably annoying. I told them it is none of their business why I wear a wig. I knew that they were going to make my hair the center of attention, so I beat them to it. Just look at my profile pic. Haters made me famous at my school. There are times when I thought the trich was gone, but it kept coming back
I was suffering with this same thing. I only felt confident when I had my eyelashes, but I found out how to stop myself!. Check out my blog for how to stop it, go on my channel and look at my website
I have 'trich' and I just can't stop pulling. It started when I was eleven and I haven't stopped since. Even when i realize that i am doing it and i see the pile of hair on the floor i just have to keep pulling. It is like I am addicted
thats really not funny. ive had trichotillomania for 5 years. since i was 13. its the hardest thing in the world to go through. you feel worthless, scared, sad, alone. i probably wouldnt even be here if i didnt have the support of one friend. its hard. nothing to joke about. thank you for posting this video.
@Smackless It's like a physical addiction. You really just gotta control it cuz it can't ''just stop''. Trust me, I felt the same way as you for a while. I am 18 and have been pulling since I was 10. I've been bullied by teachers and students alike at school, so I know how extreme people can go to exclude others. Remember, try controlling it. Don't let it control YOU!
i used to have trich. started when i was about 9 but it went away when i was about 14 or so. might be cuz i started taking anti depressants. i dont have it at all now. i remember when i did have it i would deny it cuz i was so ashamed and embarassed and would make up excuses (really bad ones)
I also have ttm. But for the first time in a long time I'm doing better. I lowered my adderal dose. I also got a smart phone which helps me keep my hands busy and I don't have that urge as much. I was also diagnosed with Irlen syndrome which I think started my ttm. Irlen is a reading disorder, I have a hard time reading black and white. Irlen.com
i started pulling when i was 3, im 19 now and and still struggling. the biggest thing for me is te guilt i feel, the guilt that everyone knows somethig is up with my hair but i cant be honest about it without losing myself. how do you quite a drug that is growing in your own skin, always there waiting for you to relapse?i just want people to know, just like in this video, you are not alone, you are not a freak, even though its hard to see it this way. 5 million peope in the USA alone had trich
girl u are to pretty! dont care what people say they just haters u beautiful no matter what and u need to learn that!:) and i got trich too i know believe me girl it was hard but now i don have to think about it and finally quit and so should u just control ur hands and tell urself not to pick it and get up and do something and u should wear a hat to hide what ur gonna pick so whenever u wanna pick, u cant cause its gonna cover ur head but u just need to learn not to take it off b4 u pick again!
i stopped by 7th grade but still had urges then in 10th grade I had an urge too strong. I pulled 1 hair out and it began again. But I've had enough restraint to keep it from being noticed. So far No one notices and i'm in 12th grade now. But I don't know how much longer I can keep it under control enough. And I just found out the name of my condition and that i'm not the only one
I got it in 3rd grade in October 2002 with lashes, brows, then hair. then stopped in 4th grade. But it started again in 5th grade worse. No doctors knew what it was. Specialists didn't either but they knew a little something. I wore hats all the time. I had no friends because I was too ashamed of myself and was too shy. I was worried some people knew what my hats were hiding. Some did know. Some made jokes about it but I pretended to laugh with them. I was afraid not to
i started when i was 12 or 13 :( lashes and brows. i'm almost 20 now. no one hass ever asked me, though im pretty sure they would have noticed. i used to wear very heavy eye makeup but not so much anymore, slowly starting to not pull my lashes so much... but i don't think my brows will grow back fully anymore. kills me when i wake up in the morning at my boyfriends house and my eyebrows have rubbed off... not a nice thing to live with :(
@Thackerdec94 yeh, and it does help knowing that there are other people who struggle with it and not just you. my lashes grew so much since that last post and now i've messed them all up again so angry :(
I love your vlog! I too have TTM. I have pulled both eyelashes and scalp hair. I have a page called "Trichotillomania (TTM) Awareness", it is a help page on Facebook that can get us connected and help each other with some support and resources.
I started when I was 6 years old. I used to have no eyebrows, eyelashes, and bald spots on my head. Now its only my eyelashes and an occasional pick from my head =) It doesn't seem weird to me I do this since its been apart of my daily life for as long as I can remember, so I don't really care if I only do it to my eyelashes.
I started with it when I was about 12 and the whole top of my head was bald, but I could cover it. It grew back over the summer but now that im 13 I started pulling it out on the sides. :( I cant even run fast in gym bcuz my hair goes up like plane wings on the sides... I have to hold my head when the wind blows. I hate when my school has lice checks bcuz then I have to make up a story so ppl dont think im insane. :(
@danielleLEEisonfire i am 15 an i have it too, but i find that keeping my head shaved helps alot, ( im doing it now typing with one hand lol, my skool principle actually let me wear a beanie for about six monthes untill it grew back : )
i just wanna pluck them eyelashes out i dont know why but i dont have bald on my head its just my eyebrows and eyelashes that get pulled i need help someone plz give me tips on to how to stop i look UGLY
I'm seventeen, and I've been pulling since I was around seven or eight. I want to say that I give you props for having the courage to put this on here. I would never be able to do such a thing. Thankyou. :)
For anyone looking for tips to minimise this. I bought some triple strength Doo Grow which is a hair serum to speed up hair growth and it has a gooey gel consistency. I pull my eyebrows and I find that when I put this on thickly I don't want to do it because it makes my fingers all gooey and messy. I also find putting a plaster or tape over the patch which has a flap in the middle can help as you can pull and fiddle with the flap instead. Obviously these only work while being indoors. Good luck
This is a brave post. The problem with trichotillomania has to do with a neurotransmitter imbalance, and we've had dramatic success helping people control their urge to pull. This, in combination with cognitive behavior therapy, can yield positive results. Please visit our website - stoppullinghairout - and learn about our approach, and see our testimonials. Friedamour, please visit.
i think i have it?? but dont know. i just pull my hair on 3 spots. after i get my eyebrows done i started plucking the growing hairr//and my finger hair..and when my baby cousin pulled a ittle hair in the way back, i didnt like the feeling so i just keep plucking the growing hairrss that he pulled and its bigger than it was cuz i accidently pulled on the hair that were normal size. ALthough no one seems to notice it
i've had it for 6 years, its really hard to deal with. feeling like your so different, having people talk about you constantly, not being able to live your life normally because your always trying to cover it up the worst of it all though, its hard feeling like your alone even thought were not. its depressing actually..
Hey, don't feel that way! Did you know that about 4% of the population have trichotillomania, including me? Please don't start cutting, it won't make it better at all. You can message me if you want to talk about it, because feeling alone is always bad. I think you should look into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, I have an appointment tomorrow and I'll let you know if it works or not if you want. You're not alone, so please don't feel that way! :)
Wow. I have had this for 6 years and just now 5 min ago I discoverd that it was an actual disorder people have. Everything you said in the video was exactly the things that I have thought, The crazy part is I've never told anyone about it. just "yea, i kinda rip and pull hair outta my head" and thats it. so thank you soooo much for putting this video up. I can't belive I was completely oblivious. But I am just glad I saw the video. so thank you so much, to the cute girl in the video. : )
Same with me. Had it since I was 9. I'm 16 now. No confidence. Outcast for many years. I just wear really dark eyeliner...and I don't know how to fix it.
knew a nice young lady called Helen,almost a decade ago now,wouldn't let me get close, as i knew i loved her a lot.I didn't know at first she had Trichotillomania and as i found out, they don't like others knowing.
the description of your middle school years, goth, freak, outcast, couldnt controll yourself, pretended not to care, sounds like me right now, im in jr. high now. how did you get through. please help
I have dealt with this since I was 5 - no eyelashes, no eyebrows, bald patches, infected follicles etc. Why do people talk about this like it's some kind of crazy messed up disease? Like, "spread the awareness! People need to know!" No they don't. I don't think I will ever try to "recover" because I don't view it as a problem - it's a way to relax, and a ritual that makes me unique. There are no health problems, and I am beautiful no matter what. Who says you have to be like everyone else?
i wish i saw it like you, i wish i had thick hair. i wish i could run my hands through my hair and not get stuck on "that one". but you are so comfortable with it. i envy that.
@Yemmy95 For some people it is a disease, but in a way that we cant get rid of it. I'm 15 years old and I absolutely hate it. No one I know understands, even my mom makes fun of me sometimes. I don't want to be like everyone else, I just don't want to pull out my hair. I hate the way it makes me look, feel (crazy, disgusting) and to me, it only adds to my stress. I hate it, hate it hate it.
thanx tons for talking about this! i know how it feels i went about a year when i was 11 without pulling but i started again and i hated it. i pulled my lashes my eyebrows and my hair and now i have a huge spot under a top layer of hair and i HATE it. i cant stop but i found it is "soothing" to get tweezers and pull out my leg hair and that isnt a horribly destructive thing is it?but i hate being lashless. last year people would ask why i didnt have any and i would go home and cry.
I don't have this...But I do have an OCD thinking disorder so I can kinda relate. But it's like no matter what you do the thoughts WILL NOT go away. And it drives you to a point of insanity where you actually start pulling your hair out. And it seems like the only cure is a bullet to the brain. It's utterly painful. And the only thing you can really do is suffer through it til everything passes. At least that's what I've done. So anyway. I support you!
I appreciated you talking about this in front of a camera. This has been a very helpful thing to do,I think. I remmeber I couldn't even hear someonte talking abour eyelashes(I attack them instead of hair)without feeling a strange pain in my stomach. Quitting is harder and harder beacuse it is something you do not for pleasure but it happens no matter what. I hope everyone will be able to quit as soon as possible. I'd like to feel better, to look better. Let's be positive, everyone!
I've had it sinse sixth grade. I pull out my hair and it used to be my eyebrows, but that I managed to stop. I can only pray my hair stops as easily. Damn trances
I had trich and finally got over it. After I finally accepted the fact that no one could help me but myself was I able to fight it alone. I started talking in the mirror each day and telling myself how beautiful I am, how much I loved myself, etc. Basically, positive affirmations. Not only did the hair pulling start to recede, I started losing weight. You do have some control. You don't do it in public do you?? Try this self talk and change the negative chatter in your brain. It works.
Thank You for sharing your story. I also have Trich. I pull from the face. It seems like alcoholism. Each year gets worse. Also sober 28 years. PammieKay
the stickiness is what holds the root in the head!! zoooot!! T-R-I-C-H-O-T-I-L-L-O-M-A-N-I-A.... IT MEANS YOU ARE A CRAZY HAIR PULLER!! HAIR.HAIR.HAIR.....HHAAIIRR!!
Look pal, my friend has this, and SHE IS IN NO WAY CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE JUST STUPID AND NAIVE BECAUSE YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANYONE WITH THIS DISEASE! THAT GOES FOR ALL OF YOU!!!!
i have this disorder to. im a girl and have a few bald patches... ppl make fun of me all the time. im in a trance wen i do it and i cant stop. i look at myself and cry.... :((( my mom yells at me....but i cant stop! in middle school, i was the exact same way. the freak....... i need to stop but i cant. the urge is not easy AT ALL!!!!
i have suffered with this for 15-16 years, im 32 and been doing it since 13 or 14, i wear wigs all the time. i wish i could stop. i can't stop. i live a normal life as a wife, mother, nurse and no one knows my secret. i just buy new wigs and when i take showers i have private time, just to pull my hair. i wish i could seek help but im so embarrassed.
Trichotillomania sucks, I do agree. I began at 9 or 10 and have been doing this for 20 years now. I've tried everything, nothing helps. I don't even know when I do it. Friends say I do when I drive, when I sleep, when I study, in taekwond class, etc. I don't feel any thing when I pull. I hate living with trich.
I have been like 3 years with it... my parents took me to pshycology i was going there for about 2 1/2 years... then the pshycology handed me to a psychiatrist.And i didnt like it beacuse he wanted me to take apill every day so i let all the treatments... and know im on College and im doing it less...
My sister's had it for about 3 or 4 years and I had it for a year or so then stopped a few months ago. (December or November 2007).
What I did to quit was find stuff to do when I got the urge, I draw,paint,cook, when I'm at home, but anywhere I'll lock my hands together, wear long sleeves to cover my hands, or I'll fiddle around with shoelaces and zippers,hehe.
You are one fantastic young lady. You've helped countless people like yourself, who suffer from ttm. When I first got it in 1979, you can imagine how horrified I was, with NO internet, books, support groups, NOTHING and no one to turn to. We can kick trich, on many levels, whether it is stopping for an hour, a day, or a minute. It's a process . I am in recovery; 3 years lash pull free, still working on brows! I focus on how I know I know I will feel AFTER pulling. That helps. Keep up the fight!
I searched this topic since my 11 yr old daughter pulled her eye lashes and brows and wanted a little insight from someone else. She has overcome it with alot of research and support from her dad and I. Your issues will only get more complicated as you age unless you come to terms with who you are and why you're here, now. Read the Power of Now and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. If you're really serious about change, please open your mind and free yourself from your own prison. YOU can do it!
ive stopped for a year now!!1 i did it in like 3rd grade and i didnt think nobody understood. now that my hair is growing back at the top lol it looks really frizzy and i cant straiten it or anything. does anyone have a solution?
You are a such a great inspiration to me and i can relate to alot of things you said. I've had trichotillomania for 2 years and i get so angry and furious, i want to stop so badly. and when i see all the girls in my school with the perfect face, body, skin, makeup and most of all the hair, it makes me so depressed and i want to commit suicide. theres so much more i want to express my anger in but i cant find the words
Thank you for posting this and being honest. Ive knowingly suffered from this since I was at least 12 years old and Im 30 now. I have my good days/weeks/months and my VERY bad days, but I know it will never stop since Ive been doing this now for more than half my life - which is sad. Like you, I find it soothing in choosing the thicker hairs on my head. Theres a rush in finding that PERFECT hair. I just sit there holding it and playing with it and then it just sits on the floor.
i think i have trichotillomania but my mom doesnt really believe it and she just yells at me to stop. Now i got to a point where mostly i just kinda play with it but then times i go to the front of my hair and pull and pull i think i need help i need to know if i have it or not
im not sure when this started for me. i cant exactly remember. i just found out today that other people do the same thing!! i thought i was the only one
Your courage inspires me. I sincerely thank you for creating this video and informing the world of trichotillomania.
I have been pulling for almost 11 years now, and just knowing that you overcame the anxiety so beautifully is truly imspiring. Again, thank you so much.
Hi everyone. I just wrote an e-book on this topic that honestly solves this problem without drugs or even therapy. I know it works because I had this condition for years and this stopped it.
I have trich, but I'm trying to get help but it doesnt seem to be working.. i go great for a few weeks and start to get my eyelashes and eye brows back and then i start back up.. I hate it... Thanks for the video ~N~
+Thank you it is such and emberrasing compulsion, It seems that for me zanaz helped to stop the complusion, but I also remembber I use to scratch m;y face hard too didn't draw blood but I wonder what that was all about I look foreward to seeing a Psyc and get some help and answers. Wish me luck!
i have been pulling since i was in the 6th grade. i am now a senior in high school and have finally got it under control thanks to a friend who gave me a short and stylish haircut so it makes it hard to pull. i have almost competely stopped pulling. occasionally will pull once and a while but ill stop myself once i realize. thank you for putting this video up =]
I've pulled for a while, but it really started getting crazy in January of this year. I don't always realize that I do it. I look down on the floor by my desk, though, and I see big balls of hair, like when you clean out a hairbrush.
I don't know what I'll do if my roommate finds out. You can't see from look at me. I have really thick hair, and I pull from the bottom layers.
Does anyone know of any online trich support groups? I've been looking, but I haven't found anything.
My mother (when whe was alive) use to do the exact same thing, It use to piss me off because If I could have just stopped I would have. That was in my teens I am 49 and I don't pull anymore I am sure it is because I take Xanax and Lexapro I know they are highly addictive but It is so awful to pull and before you know it I would have a bald spot about the size of my palm, the xanax for whatever reason I don't pull and that makes it worth it for me.
yup. have it with my lashes and brows unfortunately :( donno what stared it, but i believe it was my ex and some rough times. its cuz of stress, anxiety, etc. i would be taking my mascara off by like pulling it and noticed lashes would come out and they would itch (the others) and it made me want to take them out... it sucks.
as other's have said, it's good to know there are other people, especially on youtube, that have this disorder. I've had it since I was in 4th grade but it didn't start getting really bad till 7-8th grade. I'm in 10th grade now and it's not really bad, but i'm having problems leaving alone the hair that's only 3-4 inches long. I remember in 7-8 grade I used to blame my bald patches on my cats mauling me. xD
i started pulling when i was 5. i pulled my eyebrows, eyelashes, and scalp hair. i still do it now, i learned this year what it was called & that i was not alone. i have it bad 2. i know how it's like. i'm 15 now. thnx 4 your story.
o god...i know. i've tried EVERYTHING, including therapy. nothing works. and i have a giant bald spot..i mean HUGE. i cant hide it any more, it peeks under my hat
Its nice to know that there are people with Trich on YouTube. My longest without pulling my hair has been about 7 months. I hate having Trich, I have medications for it, I have a therapist, and I don't have thick hair, which I can't hide my bald spots. I have been pulling ever since last March. I think that this is a horrible habbit and it seems impossible to break.
Wow! I can't believe the maturity and confidence you have at your age. You are very brave. I wish I had found that level of peace then. I'm 32 with trich, and by no means recovered. Your hair is gorgeous, by the way.
Wow. Thank you so much for posting this video. I related so much to it, even down to the middle school goth thing :/. There's hope though. There's always hope...
Thank you so much for talking about this. I've had trich all my life, and while my urges have died down, I still pull. I'm still working on quitting once and for all. But I'm so happy you've almost stopped completely. Good for you!
I like to pull on my ball hair. Is that weird?
thefilesofmrx 4 months ago
@thefilesofmrx
Not sure if you're trolling or not (took a look at your channel) but pulling pubic hair is also a symptom of trich.
XxHooksxX 4 months ago
@XxHooksxX
can I pull yours ?
thefilesofmrx 4 months ago
I am 14 and I have trich. It's horrible, but I have learned to deal with it. It started in the 4th grade. It ruined my life until I realized I could just wear a wig. The kids at school are unbearably annoying. I told them it is none of their business why I wear a wig. I knew that they were going to make my hair the center of attention, so I beat them to it. Just look at my profile pic. Haters made me famous at my school. There are times when I thought the trich was gone, but it kept coming back
NewjerseyMCR1 7 months ago
I was suffering with this same thing. I only felt confident when I had my eyelashes, but I found out how to stop myself!. Check out my blog for how to stop it, go on my channel and look at my website
kmdunklin10 7 months ago
I have 'trich' and I just can't stop pulling. It started when I was eleven and I haven't stopped since. Even when i realize that i am doing it and i see the pile of hair on the floor i just have to keep pulling. It is like I am addicted
superfly123ist 8 months ago
I used to have trich. But, I extinguished it after I picked up nail-biting.
asadianphoto 8 months ago
thats really not funny. ive had trichotillomania for 5 years. since i was 13. its the hardest thing in the world to go through. you feel worthless, scared, sad, alone. i probably wouldnt even be here if i didnt have the support of one friend. its hard. nothing to joke about. thank you for posting this video.
lilith551 8 months ago
Can I pull your vagina hair ?...
thefilesofmrx 9 months ago
@Smackless It's like a physical addiction. You really just gotta control it cuz it can't ''just stop''. Trust me, I felt the same way as you for a while. I am 18 and have been pulling since I was 10. I've been bullied by teachers and students alike at school, so I know how extreme people can go to exclude others. Remember, try controlling it. Don't let it control YOU!
TheTrichSurvivor 10 months ago
i used to have trich. started when i was about 9 but it went away when i was about 14 or so. might be cuz i started taking anti depressants. i dont have it at all now. i remember when i did have it i would deny it cuz i was so ashamed and embarassed and would make up excuses (really bad ones)
c1rcu1tn3rd 10 months ago
i'm a male with trich, made 2 videos, feel free to watch...
jaggededjason 11 months ago
I also have ttm. But for the first time in a long time I'm doing better. I lowered my adderal dose. I also got a smart phone which helps me keep my hands busy and I don't have that urge as much. I was also diagnosed with Irlen syndrome which I think started my ttm. Irlen is a reading disorder, I have a hard time reading black and white. Irlen.com
BNL007 11 months ago
sounds like my story... i am trying hard to stop
mbrproductions100 1 year ago
i started pulling when i was 3, im 19 now and and still struggling. the biggest thing for me is te guilt i feel, the guilt that everyone knows somethig is up with my hair but i cant be honest about it without losing myself. how do you quite a drug that is growing in your own skin, always there waiting for you to relapse?i just want people to know, just like in this video, you are not alone, you are not a freak, even though its hard to see it this way. 5 million peope in the USA alone had trich
tayylor00 1 year ago
girl u are to pretty! dont care what people say they just haters u beautiful no matter what and u need to learn that!:) and i got trich too i know believe me girl it was hard but now i don have to think about it and finally quit and so should u just control ur hands and tell urself not to pick it and get up and do something and u should wear a hat to hide what ur gonna pick so whenever u wanna pick, u cant cause its gonna cover ur head but u just need to learn not to take it off b4 u pick again!
123coolfan 1 year ago
I have ttm too, great words of encouragment. nsk
NicoleSabrina1 1 year ago
i stopped by 7th grade but still had urges then in 10th grade I had an urge too strong. I pulled 1 hair out and it began again. But I've had enough restraint to keep it from being noticed. So far No one notices and i'm in 12th grade now. But I don't know how much longer I can keep it under control enough. And I just found out the name of my condition and that i'm not the only one
nintendofan118 1 year ago
I got it in 3rd grade in October 2002 with lashes, brows, then hair. then stopped in 4th grade. But it started again in 5th grade worse. No doctors knew what it was. Specialists didn't either but they knew a little something. I wore hats all the time. I had no friends because I was too ashamed of myself and was too shy. I was worried some people knew what my hats were hiding. Some did know. Some made jokes about it but I pretended to laugh with them. I was afraid not to
nintendofan118 1 year ago
i started when i was 12 or 13 :( lashes and brows. i'm almost 20 now. no one hass ever asked me, though im pretty sure they would have noticed. i used to wear very heavy eye makeup but not so much anymore, slowly starting to not pull my lashes so much... but i don't think my brows will grow back fully anymore. kills me when i wake up in the morning at my boyfriends house and my eyebrows have rubbed off... not a nice thing to live with :(
sl8abug 1 year ago
@sl8abug sounds alot like my story. It sucks but i guess we all have to figure a way to deal. even though its hard.
Thackerdec94 1 year ago
@Thackerdec94 yeh, and it does help knowing that there are other people who struggle with it and not just you. my lashes grew so much since that last post and now i've messed them all up again so angry :(
sl8abug 1 year ago
@sl8abug Im sorry:( my heart goes out to you, i understand your pain.
Thackerdec94 1 year ago
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I love your vlog! I too have TTM. I have pulled both eyelashes and scalp hair. I have a page called "Trichotillomania (TTM) Awareness", it is a help page on Facebook that can get us connected and help each other with some support and resources.
mrsfwills 1 year ago
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mrsfwills 1 year ago
I started when I was 6 years old. I used to have no eyebrows, eyelashes, and bald spots on my head. Now its only my eyelashes and an occasional pick from my head =) It doesn't seem weird to me I do this since its been apart of my daily life for as long as I can remember, so I don't really care if I only do it to my eyelashes.
cr3ativ3bliss 1 year ago
It doesn't matter. You're beautiful the way you are.
XxluigifanxX 1 year ago
I started with it when I was about 12 and the whole top of my head was bald, but I could cover it. It grew back over the summer but now that im 13 I started pulling it out on the sides. :( I cant even run fast in gym bcuz my hair goes up like plane wings on the sides... I have to hold my head when the wind blows. I hate when my school has lice checks bcuz then I have to make up a story so ppl dont think im insane. :(
CROSS292 1 year ago
@danielleLEEisonfire i am 15 an i have it too, but i find that keeping my head shaved helps alot, ( im doing it now typing with one hand lol, my skool principle actually let me wear a beanie for about six monthes untill it grew back : )
Truthseeker95 1 year ago
My friend has this. No eyelashes, half an eyebrow, and bald patches.:(
KellyXXD1 1 year ago
Your hair looks so thick. You're luckyyy. :(
m1ssychr1ssy09 1 year ago
how did you fix it? i would love to know
garrettmaria74 1 year ago
i have this wish their was help
GlittersHottPink 1 year ago
i just wanna pluck them eyelashes out i dont know why but i dont have bald on my head its just my eyebrows and eyelashes that get pulled i need help someone plz give me tips on to how to stop i look UGLY
horsesrule41 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this. I have trich and I need to try my hardest to fight it. You're so pretty thanks for inspiring me to try harder
nobodylikesmycookies 1 year ago
I'm seventeen, and I've been pulling since I was around seven or eight. I want to say that I give you props for having the courage to put this on here. I would never be able to do such a thing. Thankyou. :)
honeycak1 1 year ago
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For anyone looking for tips to minimise this. I bought some triple strength Doo Grow which is a hair serum to speed up hair growth and it has a gooey gel consistency. I pull my eyebrows and I find that when I put this on thickly I don't want to do it because it makes my fingers all gooey and messy. I also find putting a plaster or tape over the patch which has a flap in the middle can help as you can pull and fiddle with the flap instead. Obviously these only work while being indoors. Good luck
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BeautifulHyster1a 1 year ago
I'm pulling out my eyebrows when I get stressed, and sometimes the sides of my hair nearest my temples. Could this evolve into bad trich?
LiltedLullaby 1 year ago
This is a brave post. The problem with trichotillomania has to do with a neurotransmitter imbalance, and we've had dramatic success helping people control their urge to pull. This, in combination with cognitive behavior therapy, can yield positive results. Please visit our website - stoppullinghairout - and learn about our approach, and see our testimonials. Friedamour, please visit.
gmwrites1 1 year ago
i think i have it?? but dont know. i just pull my hair on 3 spots. after i get my eyebrows done i started plucking the growing hairr//and my finger hair..and when my baby cousin pulled a ittle hair in the way back, i didnt like the feeling so i just keep plucking the growing hairrss that he pulled and its bigger than it was cuz i accidently pulled on the hair that were normal size. ALthough no one seems to notice it
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i dont believe for one second that you were hideous.
TrichWillNotOwnMe 2 years ago
i've had it for 6 years, its really hard to deal with. feeling like your so different, having people talk about you constantly, not being able to live your life normally because your always trying to cover it up the worst of it all though, its hard feeling like your alone even thought were not. its depressing actually..
breaabee 2 years ago 3
As a Psych major...I know it can be hard.
Okay, now that that is out of the way...God, you are one fine woman!
SpeedingStudent 2 years ago
Hey, don't feel that way! Did you know that about 4% of the population have trichotillomania, including me? Please don't start cutting, it won't make it better at all. You can message me if you want to talk about it, because feeling alone is always bad. I think you should look into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, I have an appointment tomorrow and I'll let you know if it works or not if you want. You're not alone, so please don't feel that way! :)
kyaisme 2 years ago
don't worry.. you're beautiful. I also suffer it too
rayearth05 2 years ago
I've been struggling with it for 8 years, but it has only been bad for about 5.
Honey I admire you for your strength!
SuiteDrimz 2 years ago
Wow. I have had this for 6 years and just now 5 min ago I discoverd that it was an actual disorder people have. Everything you said in the video was exactly the things that I have thought, The crazy part is I've never told anyone about it. just "yea, i kinda rip and pull hair outta my head" and thats it. so thank you soooo much for putting this video up. I can't belive I was completely oblivious. But I am just glad I saw the video. so thank you so much, to the cute girl in the video. : )
MondaysApples 2 years ago
i've had Trichotillomania for 24 years, and im 35. Im feel very bad because im have little hair. My family soport me, but I can´t stop this.
(excuse me english)
MINITIZZA 2 years ago
how did you recover? therapy?
blkbuttaflychic 3 years ago 2
i've had Trichotillomania for 12 years, and im 17.
tragicmove 3 years ago
I have this.
Makes me pull out my eyelashes.
I have no eyelashes now.
nicolechanel 3 years ago
so do i....
samja82 3 years ago
Same with me. Had it since I was 9. I'm 16 now. No confidence. Outcast for many years. I just wear really dark eyeliner...and I don't know how to fix it.
lawlieter 2 years ago
knew a nice young lady called Helen,almost a decade ago now,wouldn't let me get close, as i knew i loved her a lot.I didn't know at first she had Trichotillomania and as i found out, they don't like others knowing.
wuffurs 3 years ago
well, im happy ive maltesers to eat ;p
thymen121 3 years ago
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come over to my house ill your hair from the back lol
Betances9287 3 years ago
I have it too. Thanks for sharing.
christine70360 3 years ago 3
the description of your middle school years, goth, freak, outcast, couldnt controll yourself, pretended not to care, sounds like me right now, im in jr. high now. how did you get through. please help
criesinvain01 3 years ago
has anyone told you that you look like Audrey Tautou ? amazing resemblance i think..
test123ok 3 years ago
I have dealt with this since I was 5 - no eyelashes, no eyebrows, bald patches, infected follicles etc. Why do people talk about this like it's some kind of crazy messed up disease? Like, "spread the awareness! People need to know!" No they don't. I don't think I will ever try to "recover" because I don't view it as a problem - it's a way to relax, and a ritual that makes me unique. There are no health problems, and I am beautiful no matter what. Who says you have to be like everyone else?
Yemmy95 3 years ago 12
i wish i saw it like you, i wish i had thick hair. i wish i could run my hands through my hair and not get stuck on "that one". but you are so comfortable with it. i envy that.
biology1234 3 years ago
@Yemmy95 For some people it is a disease, but in a way that we cant get rid of it. I'm 15 years old and I absolutely hate it. No one I know understands, even my mom makes fun of me sometimes. I don't want to be like everyone else, I just don't want to pull out my hair. I hate the way it makes me look, feel (crazy, disgusting) and to me, it only adds to my stress. I hate it, hate it hate it.
Just remember, everyone is different.
cheer4giants 1 year ago
thanx tons for talking about this! i know how it feels i went about a year when i was 11 without pulling but i started again and i hated it. i pulled my lashes my eyebrows and my hair and now i have a huge spot under a top layer of hair and i HATE it. i cant stop but i found it is "soothing" to get tweezers and pull out my leg hair and that isnt a horribly destructive thing is it?but i hate being lashless. last year people would ask why i didnt have any and i would go home and cry.
penguinerfromwow 3 years ago
I understand. I have no lashes or eyebrows either... they haven't grown back.
People ask me too and I don't know what to say :(
chrisjbee 3 years ago
I don't have this...But I do have an OCD thinking disorder so I can kinda relate. But it's like no matter what you do the thoughts WILL NOT go away. And it drives you to a point of insanity where you actually start pulling your hair out. And it seems like the only cure is a bullet to the brain. It's utterly painful. And the only thing you can really do is suffer through it til everything passes. At least that's what I've done. So anyway. I support you!
SauceOnDough 3 years ago
I appreciated you talking about this in front of a camera. This has been a very helpful thing to do,I think. I remmeber I couldn't even hear someonte talking abour eyelashes(I attack them instead of hair)without feeling a strange pain in my stomach. Quitting is harder and harder beacuse it is something you do not for pleasure but it happens no matter what. I hope everyone will be able to quit as soon as possible. I'd like to feel better, to look better. Let's be positive, everyone!
kitgibbslove 3 years ago
Stressballs dont work no :D
i have no idea where it came from though. =/
one night...i just started pulling my fringe out.
jamesj03 3 years ago
yeah ok :D!
soloboy1991 3 years ago
I've had it sinse sixth grade. I pull out my hair and it used to be my eyebrows, but that I managed to stop. I can only pray my hair stops as easily. Damn trances
LeRoiSoleilLuv 3 years ago
thx fir that that made me feel better
Okimii 3 years ago
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WHY the hell you need to pull you're hair? i don't get it!
soloboy1991 3 years ago
do you have any habits you CAN'T stop no matter how hard you try it?
LeRoiSoleilLuv 3 years ago
I had trich and finally got over it. After I finally accepted the fact that no one could help me but myself was I able to fight it alone. I started talking in the mirror each day and telling myself how beautiful I am, how much I loved myself, etc. Basically, positive affirmations. Not only did the hair pulling start to recede, I started losing weight. You do have some control. You don't do it in public do you?? Try this self talk and change the negative chatter in your brain. It works.
enidangel 3 years ago
I have trich, have since I was 7 years old, thanks for showing that real beauty comes from confidence you made me smile.
xxKunoichixxTentenxx 3 years ago 2
Thank You for sharing your story. I also have Trich. I pull from the face. It seems like alcoholism. Each year gets worse. Also sober 28 years. PammieKay
sober1980 3 years ago
ive had this since 5th grade. im in 11th now. and it sucks. it really does.
InHandcuffsxx 3 years ago
feel you.. i am sophmore and had it fr 2 yrs. had to go through all the same crap
siscorskiy 3 years ago
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the stickiness is what holds the root in the head!! zoooot!! T-R-I-C-H-O-T-I-L-L-O-M-A-N-I-A.... IT MEANS YOU ARE A CRAZY HAIR PULLER!! HAIR.HAIR.HAIR.....HHAAIIRR!!
xploitthehero 3 years ago
Look pal, my friend has this, and SHE IS IN NO WAY CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE JUST STUPID AND NAIVE BECAUSE YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANYONE WITH THIS DISEASE! THAT GOES FOR ALL OF YOU!!!!
warriorcatsruledance 3 years ago
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what a looser
siscorskiy 3 years ago
i have this disorder to. im a girl and have a few bald patches... ppl make fun of me all the time. im in a trance wen i do it and i cant stop. i look at myself and cry.... :((( my mom yells at me....but i cant stop! in middle school, i was the exact same way. the freak....... i need to stop but i cant. the urge is not easy AT ALL!!!!
numba1icedancer 3 years ago
thank you for this video..i hope i can fix this problem too
cdm0014 3 years ago
i have suffered with this for 15-16 years, im 32 and been doing it since 13 or 14, i wear wigs all the time. i wish i could stop. i can't stop. i live a normal life as a wife, mother, nurse and no one knows my secret. i just buy new wigs and when i take showers i have private time, just to pull my hair. i wish i could seek help but im so embarrassed.
mekain2006 3 years ago
one thing that helps ne is to put ice in the spot it tricks the mind
kkjmanshack 3 years ago
Trichotillomania sucks, I do agree. I began at 9 or 10 and have been doing this for 20 years now. I've tried everything, nothing helps. I don't even know when I do it. Friends say I do when I drive, when I sleep, when I study, in taekwond class, etc. I don't feel any thing when I pull. I hate living with trich.
Kicking4JC 3 years ago
I have been like 3 years with it... my parents took me to pshycology i was going there for about 2 1/2 years... then the pshycology handed me to a psychiatrist.And i didnt like it beacuse he wanted me to take apill every day so i let all the treatments... and know im on College and im doing it less...
y3p3v3 3 years ago
I'm a trichotillomaniac too, for about 12 yrs now.
I can control it a little now, but I usually start pulling at my hair when I'm tired - and as such i dont realize im doing it.
For me, its more of a stress-reliever.
JohhnyPark 4 years ago
You're very brave for posting this :D
My sister's had it for about 3 or 4 years and I had it for a year or so then stopped a few months ago. (December or November 2007).
What I did to quit was find stuff to do when I got the urge, I draw,paint,cook, when I'm at home, but anywhere I'll lock my hands together, wear long sleeves to cover my hands, or I'll fiddle around with shoelaces and zippers,hehe.
Anyways, I appreciate the video :)
sodadrinkingjutsu 4 years ago
ughhh i cantt stop.
ii pull out my head hair, my dogs hair. everything. ii love the big thickk roots:]
crankthatpimp 4 years ago
You are one fantastic young lady. You've helped countless people like yourself, who suffer from ttm. When I first got it in 1979, you can imagine how horrified I was, with NO internet, books, support groups, NOTHING and no one to turn to. We can kick trich, on many levels, whether it is stopping for an hour, a day, or a minute. It's a process . I am in recovery; 3 years lash pull free, still working on brows! I focus on how I know I know I will feel AFTER pulling. That helps. Keep up the fight!
breezy501 4 years ago
I searched this topic since my 11 yr old daughter pulled her eye lashes and brows and wanted a little insight from someone else. She has overcome it with alot of research and support from her dad and I. Your issues will only get more complicated as you age unless you come to terms with who you are and why you're here, now. Read the Power of Now and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. If you're really serious about change, please open your mind and free yourself from your own prison. YOU can do it!
dlane1234 4 years ago
ive stopped for a year now!!1 i did it in like 3rd grade and i didnt think nobody understood. now that my hair is growing back at the top lol it looks really frizzy and i cant straiten it or anything. does anyone have a solution?
iamm3lissa 4 years ago
Lamm: How did you stop?
blessings,
veelighted7 4 years ago
You are a such a great inspiration to me and i can relate to alot of things you said. I've had trichotillomania for 2 years and i get so angry and furious, i want to stop so badly. and when i see all the girls in my school with the perfect face, body, skin, makeup and most of all the hair, it makes me so depressed and i want to commit suicide. theres so much more i want to express my anger in but i cant find the words
JENNRAHOMOFACE 4 years ago
I WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE TOO
STARkay778 4 years ago
Thank you for posting this and being honest. Ive knowingly suffered from this since I was at least 12 years old and Im 30 now. I have my good days/weeks/months and my VERY bad days, but I know it will never stop since Ive been doing this now for more than half my life - which is sad. Like you, I find it soothing in choosing the thicker hairs on my head. Theres a rush in finding that PERFECT hair. I just sit there holding it and playing with it and then it just sits on the floor.
alternageek 4 years ago
G\HOW DID IT GET CURED?
PLEASE HELP ME
STARkay778 4 years ago
i think i have trichotillomania but my mom doesnt really believe it and she just yells at me to stop. Now i got to a point where mostly i just kinda play with it but then times i go to the front of my hair and pull and pull i think i need help i need to know if i have it or not
broncos1919 4 years ago
I've been pulling my hair for 7 years and I need help (to stop my trichotillomania from eating at me, literally).
christinahawk2006 4 years ago
this is my 3rd year with that shit
mpolemiko 4 years ago
im not sure when this started for me. i cant exactly remember. i just found out today that other people do the same thing!! i thought i was the only one
dressupDEAD 4 years ago
Your courage inspires me. I sincerely thank you for creating this video and informing the world of trichotillomania.
I have been pulling for almost 11 years now, and just knowing that you overcame the anxiety so beautifully is truly imspiring. Again, thank you so much.
KeruriAohoshi 4 years ago
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Please message me so I can help you with this.
nyguy18 4 years ago
I finally got my website up on the topic. If anyone is interested in my solution it's at
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All the Best to everyone.
nyguy18 4 years ago
Oh my god I'm sooo glad I'm not alone - you're a very couragous woman!
Chordiegurl 4 years ago 2
I have trich, but I'm trying to get help but it doesnt seem to be working.. i go great for a few weeks and start to get my eyelashes and eye brows back and then i start back up.. I hate it... Thanks for the video ~N~
NiennaAncalimon 4 years ago
You are a very beautiful woman and you should apply these words to your life....... I HAVE KNOCKED DOWN, BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN KNOCKED OUT!
Let nothing master you.
Heed these words and do take care bebe lol yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
havoctrend 4 years ago
+Thank you it is such and emberrasing compulsion, It seems that for me zanaz helped to stop the complusion, but I also remembber I use to scratch m;y face hard too didn't draw blood but I wonder what that was all about I look foreward to seeing a Psyc and get some help and answers. Wish me luck!
fruityblack 4 years ago
I use to scratch at my face when I was still in the criB and still wonder why did I do that?
fruityblack 4 years ago
i have been pulling since i was in the 6th grade. i am now a senior in high school and have finally got it under control thanks to a friend who gave me a short and stylish haircut so it makes it hard to pull. i have almost competely stopped pulling. occasionally will pull once and a while but ill stop myself once i realize. thank you for putting this video up =]
Haileelynn 4 years ago
I've pulled for a while, but it really started getting crazy in January of this year. I don't always realize that I do it. I look down on the floor by my desk, though, and I see big balls of hair, like when you clean out a hairbrush.
I don't know what I'll do if my roommate finds out. You can't see from look at me. I have really thick hair, and I pull from the bottom layers.
Does anyone know of any online trich support groups? I've been looking, but I haven't found anything.
romaniagurlie 4 years ago
Your really pretty.
I only found out the other day that I suffer from Dermatillomania..if I spelt that right, I'm learning haha.
So yeah, thats the skin one, :S sounds horrible to say it..but yeah..
Hellogals 4 years ago
UGH my mom always asks me to just 'stop doing it'.
like I enjoy pulling out my hair. It's good to know there are other people out there who suffer from this. I actually thought I was alone.
ihidurremote 4 years ago
My mother (when whe was alive) use to do the exact same thing, It use to piss me off because If I could have just stopped I would have. That was in my teens I am 49 and I don't pull anymore I am sure it is because I take Xanax and Lexapro I know they are highly addictive but It is so awful to pull and before you know it I would have a bald spot about the size of my palm, the xanax for whatever reason I don't pull and that makes it worth it for me.
fruityblack 4 years ago
i keep my hair long so i can hide my eyelashes and sometimes my eyebrows. if i had short hair everyone could EASILY notice that im missing eyelashes.
foxracing257xxx 4 years ago
what sucks is seein ads for mascara and stuff and im like ohhh... ive almost stopped, but then done it again. help! ive had it for almost 3 years.
Pinkbury 4 years ago
yup. have it with my lashes and brows unfortunately :( donno what stared it, but i believe it was my ex and some rough times. its cuz of stress, anxiety, etc. i would be taking my mascara off by like pulling it and noticed lashes would come out and they would itch (the others) and it made me want to take them out... it sucks.
Pinkbury 4 years ago
omg WTF u went to my school. my friend nikki pulls all her eyelashes out.
jumperchu 4 years ago
as other's have said, it's good to know there are other people, especially on youtube, that have this disorder. I've had it since I was in 4th grade but it didn't start getting really bad till 7-8th grade. I'm in 10th grade now and it's not really bad, but i'm having problems leaving alone the hair that's only 3-4 inches long. I remember in 7-8 grade I used to blame my bald patches on my cats mauling me. xD
GarlicToast 4 years ago
most importand is to know you are NOT alone and we do understand.
fruityblack 4 years ago
middle school was hell for me too
spleeWaffle 4 years ago
how did you stop ? please tell me !!!
sleepmaster 4 years ago
How did you stop?
jkitchell 4 years ago
your honesty and realness is beuitful in iteslf..
lrich65184 4 years ago
nice hair
Ballmeyer 4 years ago
i started pulling when i was 5. i pulled my eyebrows, eyelashes, and scalp hair. i still do it now, i learned this year what it was called & that i was not alone. i have it bad 2. i know how it's like. i'm 15 now. thnx 4 your story.
nfitz92691 4 years ago
thanks 4 the vid, i'e never seen anyone talking about it before, made me smile, knowing i'm not alone. :)
calli249 4 years ago
me too!
ThatSingerGirl 4 years ago
o god...i know. i've tried EVERYTHING, including therapy. nothing works. and i have a giant bald spot..i mean HUGE. i cant hide it any more, it peeks under my hat
kearabob 4 years ago
i started pulling when i was in 6th grade im now in 11th and i havent stopped!
kysuperstar 5 years ago
Its nice to know that there are people with Trich on YouTube. My longest without pulling my hair has been about 7 months. I hate having Trich, I have medications for it, I have a therapist, and I don't have thick hair, which I can't hide my bald spots. I have been pulling ever since last March. I think that this is a horrible habbit and it seems impossible to break.
XxNitemare717Xx 5 years ago
Wow! I can't believe the maturity and confidence you have at your age. You are very brave. I wish I had found that level of peace then. I'm 32 with trich, and by no means recovered. Your hair is gorgeous, by the way.
klsike 5 years ago
Wow. Thank you so much for posting this video. I related so much to it, even down to the middle school goth thing :/. There's hope though. There's always hope...
sheriseipoo 5 years ago
wtf?
fullnarutoZ 5 years ago
Thank you so much for talking about this. I've had trich all my life, and while my urges have died down, I still pull. I'm still working on quitting once and for all. But I'm so happy you've almost stopped completely. Good for you!
balaustine 5 years ago