I'm annoyed and relieved at the same time. I'm going to the doctors sometime next week, and I suggested to mum that I could ask about hair pulling at the same time...I thought she'd tell me that it's just a bad habit and that I should be able to stop on my own (which is why I've put off telling her I still do it), but it turns out that she actually looked it up online herself, not too long after I started. I'm annoyed because I thought I was the only one who had a problem like this for years, and I didn't need to...but I'm relieved because telling her wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be, and she also agrees that getting therapy might be a good idea. Although I'm still worried about what dad's going to think - he doesn't like therapy because he thinks it stigmatises people, so I'm not sure if he'll want me to go.