Hair pulling problem, need advice!

Does anyone else have problems with pulling their hair? I'm always tearing it out of my scalp and I want long healthy hair but I can't seem to break the habit 😭 I will braid it sometimes and that helps but I forget

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ThePacifistWhale

1y ago

I have problems with my eyebrows and eyelashes

Bre19

1y ago

same here

Barbiegrl

1y ago

Does it feel satisfying to do it ? Mine is slightly different, i pick at scabs on my scalp

upsettispaghetti

1y ago

i do that as well, but it's more like if I feel a single strand that's not perfectly smooth, i tear it out because it bothers me and feels satisfying to remove it, but I'll pull it so much to the point my fingers get sore and sensitive

seedling

1y ago

This sounds like Trichotillomania. I relate to this. I don't pull out my hair but I am obsessively messing with it. In many different ways. It's definitely a compulsion and it drives me insane sometimes. One of the many ways I'll mess with my hair is I'll twist it around my fingers really tight until I feel it tugging on my scalp. There's something about that tight feeling that is soothing.

unicorn

1y ago

I was going to say the same thing about it possibly being trichotillomania.

upsettispaghetti

1y ago

same I always break my hair as well so I have a lot of split ends but the more split ends I have the stronger the tendency is to pull it. Sometimes I pull it so much my finger get sore and sensitive it drives me insane too. It's like a stress response that turned into a bad habit but doing it also stresses me out more

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