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Trichotillomania

DrewDoug
6 months ago

I have so many other little minor oddities which I wonder may stem from Autism. Or possibly OCD.

I often have the urge to pull out my eyelashes with my finger nails. Most of the time until there are none left.

I also pull out my nasal hair with tweezers.

I wonder if anyone else has this?

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  • 6 months ago

    My things was chewing my nails to the quick. I had the head scratching til it bled till I was a teen which I morphed, with discipline, into twirling of the hair which I srtill very much enjoy doing. I am kind of allergic to tobacco but started to smoke after that - a few a day. I suppose it was a sort of self harm. That was only for a few years and then after 5 years of intense therapy the urge left ,along with many other negatives I had been manifesting. I think Reichian Therapy is very well suited to autistic people if the therapist can recognize that how autism presents in a healthy individual is not a pathology. (Reichian therapy had to also adjust to accommodate queer folk too.) It is not based of talking so much as it is on the  body holding traumatic memory and releasing in from the muscles down to the cellular level.

    Alas its not well known anymore. It saved my life in the 80s.

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  • 6 months ago

    My things was chewing my nails to the quick. I had the head scratching til it bled till I was a teen which I morphed, with discipline, into twirling of the hair which I srtill very much enjoy doing. I am kind of allergic to tobacco but started to smoke after that - a few a day. I suppose it was a sort of self harm. That was only for a few years and then after 5 years of intense therapy the urge left ,along with many other negatives I had been manifesting. I think Reichian Therapy is very well suited to autistic people if the therapist can recognize that how autism presents in a healthy individual is not a pathology. (Reichian therapy had to also adjust to accommodate queer folk too.) It is not based of talking so much as it is on the  body holding traumatic memory and releasing in from the muscles down to the cellular level.

    Alas its not well known anymore. It saved my life in the 80s.

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