I never really thought of this as a way of SI until I'd recently read a few posts about it, but when I was younger I had a problem with pulling my hair out strand by strand. I used to lock myself in the bathroom and sit in front of the mirror for hours, and I used to have to keep it from my mum because she realised what I was doing and she used to shout at me (I was only about 10).

After a while my hair started thinning really badly and I started to get bald patches, so I knew I had to stop, but instead I found a similar way to pass the time. I used to pick at my scalp really badly, until it bled.

I had a problem with this for a few years, and even now I stop myself going to the hairdressers because I know what a mess I made of it. After a while I stopped but recently I started doing it again and didnt think it was so much of a problem but now Im starting to think differently. I even find it calms me down, when Im upset or triggering I've started to do it.

Could this really be another form of SI? And does anyone else have a problem with this?

babyg xXx