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Not sure if this is the right place to post. I did try to look, but maybe I am still wrong in where I am posting, so I do apologise if that's the case

Okay. Now that that's out of the way, what I want to discuss now:

I have been pulling my hair since I was in little. It started with my eyelashes, then my hair

I've been trying to be better about it over time, but I cannot stop it. Anxious or not, I catch myself pulling hair. Anxiety can worsen the severity of it, or for example, I may notice I'm doing it and want to stop, but stress from wanting to stop will actually worsen it...but even if I am perfectly content, I will still do it. 

I have most often heard it related to either self harm or an OCD BFBR disorder, but just recently heard this could be a form of stimming. I'm not sure what it is for me. I don't think the little kid who started pulling her eyelashes out was self harming though.

Has anyone else experienced this/ Or does anyone have any advice to stop? I recently got a fidget toy, and I like it a lot but this pulling action and the urge to do it, is not satisfied when I fidget with this twisty fidget

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  • Well, this brings back memories.  I used to pull my hair out from very early childhood.  I never knew why.  Now that you mention it as a form of stimming, it makes sense.  I think it was a form of stress relief because I couldn't communicate in conventional ways.

    I don't remember when I stopped.  I think I just grew out of it while in my teens.

    Now I just pull out my  eyelashes occasionally  with tweezers, while looking for white hairs in the mirror.

  • in reply to Robert124

    It's good to know you can grow out of it. I'm about to be out of my teens in a few months but even if it takes me a bit longer, I've feared in the past that I'd be stuck like this forever...or until I was bald at least. So certainly reassuring to hear.

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