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Originally Posted by comicgeek007
The first thing I showed definitive symptoms of was trichotillomania. It started when I was starting to have stressful family and school life - between second and third grade. Probably not coincidentally, it was around the same time that my mother got diagnosed as bipolar and then never saw that pdoc again. One day I was looking in the mirror in my room and suddenly had the urge to pull out my eyelashes, and before I realized it I barely had any left.
Looking back, I can see symptoms of bipolar pretty far back in my childhood, but no one thought to test me for anything because despite being a bit capricious, I was doing great in school (though I had so much trouble completing homework a lot of time, simply because I lacked the focus or energy, but that always got chalked up to me slacking off). It only started to get really noticeable, but only for the depressive symptoms, while I was in high school.
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i have trich too. since i was 9. so i know exactly what you mean with the eyelash thing. i pull both my lashes and eyebrows. i had pulled them all out completely by the time i was 13. they are so short i pull them with tweezers now. my skin is COMPLETELY clean. when people look at me they see 0 hair. when i look at me i see hundreds of hairs that need to go. i used to spend 3-4 hours a day locked in the bathroom in a trance pulling. i used to eat them too. not anymore. but its actually gotten so bad now that if a hair is too short ill carve and peel out skin JUST to get that one hair. i have various but small cuts/scabs on both my eyebrows and eyelids cause of that.
a couple of years ago i started pull from my scalp....im really scared.