[onlymedid]

I want to shave my head really badly. My husband is trying to get me to wait and make an appointment for one day this week, but I want to do it NOW.
The impulsive side of me is getting out of hand and it's annoying.
Anyone else fighting impulsions?

[vjdragonfly]

Not at the moment onlymedid, but I have in the past. I call it a hair up my ***** and I gotta do what I can to get rid of it.

[thinker22]

Oh I've had that very same urge in the past. MANY a times. I'm surprised I never have followed through with shaving my head. Mostly I imagine that my significant other would freak out at seeing me bald so I hold back. But every other year I usually cut my hair pretty short and he has to deal with it. Like just to the bottom of the ear lobes. Any more and I think he'd have cardiac arrest. He's one of those guys who likes long hair. I'd probably hate it anyway after I cut it all off and then have to go out and buy a wig until it grew back. Silliness. But I feel for your plight. I wish you luck in fighting the urge to do it yourself.

[onlymedid]

Originally Posted by vjdragonfly

Not at the moment onlymedid, but I have in the past. I call it a hair up my ***** and I gotta do what I can to get rid of it.

LOL.

[onlymedid]

Originally Posted by thinker22

Oh I've had that very same urge in the past. MANY a times. I'm surprised I never have followed through with shaving my head. Mostly I imagine that my significant other would freak out at seeing me bald so I hold back. But every other year I usually cut my hair pretty short and he has to deal with it. Like just to the bottom of the ear lobes. Any more and I think he'd have cardiac arrest. He's one of those guys who likes long hair. I'd probably hate it anyway after I cut it all off and then have to go out and buy a wig until it grew back. Silliness. But I feel for your plight. I wish you luck in fighting the urge to do it yourself.

My husband has been begging me not to do it. He would rather I go to a salon and get it cut like 3 inches. I want it like Ellen Degeneres.
Thanks for the support.
The urge is just so great. Why do we (those with Bipolor) have such huge issues with impulse and urges? It's so frustrating because I am the only one I know like this.

Ooooooh YES! Not so much at the moment <twitch twitch>, but yes indeed. A little over a month ago, I was giving serious consideration to a haircut. (I used to have a good stylist/colorist. Since financially for many months now I've had no choice but to be left to my own devices... let's just say, . Soooo not a hairdresser am I.) It was heinous and I couldn't stand it. Did give thought to the near crew-cut. Figured out something only "slightly" bizarre, <cough> I mean, "unusual".

Ok, so here's where the impulse thing comes in. Because "starting to think about something" is virtually synonymous with "must do NOW", in less than 24 hours from finding the picture (well, compilation really, because why have 1 when you can have 3 in 1?!) along comes 1 am. Where am I? Sitting on the counter in the bathroom with $1 scissors trying to cut my hair very short, even though I can't get a correct angle to save my life or even a good look at it holding up a mirror. Pretty well flying blind, oh yeah. Glance, whack, glance, whack. You can imagine what it looked like.
I had *some* amount of sense in stopping, but not before I'd mauled it damn good.
Next day I _had_ to call and make an appointment.

So yeah, onlymedid. Not alone.

[newtoBD]

Originally Posted by onlymedid

I want to shave my head really badly. My husband is trying to get me to wait and make an appointment for one day this week, but I want to do it NOW.
The impulsive side of me is getting out of hand and it's annoying.
Anyone else fighting impulsions?

My bipolar husband gets into shaving "his area" and his goatee off when he's hypomanic...every summer...makes me sad...I love his goatee. Is this common with bipolar-wanting to remove hair?

[BlackPup]

One day I was having a bad day and my hair (half way down my back at the time) was in the way and too hot (it was summer) and I couldn't find a hair tie so I grabbed the scissors and chopped it off into a short bob... a few months later, again I was having a bad hair day so I shaved it all off! Starting to want to shave/cut it again but managing to resist it, keeping it tied back - its regrown to shoulder length...