...I had a consultation with a private therapist yesterday. It went quite well, I think - he was really easy to talk to, and the room was good as well - I thought it'd be him at a desk, but it was two armchairs. He asked me a lot of questions, mainly about how I got on with other people and how I coped when I was the centre of attention, and came to the conclusion that I have social phobia, which I wasn't expecting. (I think I'll be doing some reading about it, but I did seem to fit quite a few of the symptoms.) But he told me that might be linked to the hair pulling, so if we concentrate more on treating the social phobia then it should still help with the hair pulling as well. I've been given some questionnaires to do before I see him again - one testing for compulsions, one for depression, and one about phobias, I think.

I didn't mean to write so much! Anyway, I've got another session next Thursday.