i had never put too much thought into my eyebrows being linked in with trich, but now that you've mentioned that crustypie, i did also shave my eyebrows as a teen and obsessed with them. fortunately for myself, the shaving was short lived, because very early on in that behavior, i accidentally shaved off most of one eyebrow, and as you mentioned, it looked terrible. i am really surprised (to put it mildly!! so glad you posted that!!) i hadn't connected that in with my hair cutting disorder until now.. because i did obsess with them all the way up until i began to heal from trichotemnomania! i messed with them with tweezers and did trim a couple here and there and they were always quite thin and short while i was within trich.. wow.. i am just really surprised that hadn't clicked with me at all until reading your post!

i personally haven't heard much about shaving of the eyebrows myself neither, but i am guessing based on my personal experience that it is connected very much! i think in my case, my eyebrows were very much a part of my focus, but when i began cutting my hair, my disorder basically exploded and became full blown. my eyebrows were very much a part of my obsessive behavior, but i have to assume that once i moved to my hair.. gosh, it felt like i was a kid in a candy store, for lack of a better description.

trichotemnomania for myself personally was based very much on perfectionism.. and i obviously was striving for some form of relief that i obtained beginning in my eyebrow obsession, that lead me to move on to another area when i assume the eyebrows weren't fulfilling that to my satisfaction anymore.. wow.. this is fascinating to me.. that may sound silly, but it really is very significant for myself personally!

good for you, for all of you, for posting about your obsessive behavior! this hair cutting/shaving disorder seems very rare, but i am beginning to see that there are MANY sufferers of it. little research seems to have been done on it, because it seems so rare, so it's basically a catch 22. the sufferers of the disorder remain in shame and hide it, because it is so unheard of that they think they are the only person that does this, therefore, it's not recognized as the serious disorder that it is, and studied further. (in my opinion).