[ebatts]

I have an obsession with getting rid hair on my chin, knuckles, and between my eyebrows.

I know that sounds weird, but it's true. I absolutely cannot go five minutes of the day without feeling any of those areas for hair. I rub my knuckles on my bottom lip to feel for hairs, and feel my chin and eyebrows to make sure nothing is there. If I feel one little hair, I mess with it all day until I get home. It only gets worse from there.

I don't stop until the hair is gone, even if it means I have to dig into my skin with the tweezers and I start bleeding. I have a ton of scars on my chin from it, and a few on my knuckles. I'm starting to become scared because some hairs have come in on my neck, and I've had to dig for those, too. Luckily there are not scars, but I'm afraid of digging into a wrong spot one day and hurting myself.

I spend at least 1-2 hours a day plucking these hairs. Once I see one, I can't stop until all the mentioned areas are smooth. It drives me crazy if I can't do it for one day. I always feel like something is there and I have to check in the mirror. Sometimes I can convince myself that nothing is there and be alright for a few hours, though. My girlfriend gets annoyed by it. She constantly bats my hand to get me to stop, but I just go right back to what I was doing.

I don't know if that's considered OCD or not. I don't see my psychiatrist for another two weeks, and I'm not really sure he'd be the right person to talk to about it.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

[honeybee777]

wax...lol

[ebatts]

Lol if only. It's a mental thing. Even if I did wax, I'd still feel the need to do all of the above.

[amaviena]

I have the same problem. Just don't even look at your chest. That's my words of wisdom. You have the tiniest most obnoxious hairs around your nipples. I actually pull on my eyebrows to make sure there aren't any semi loose hair in them. sit on your hands. Luvox, bro.

[ebatts]

I pull on my eyelashes and eyebrows too! I have bald spots in my eyebrows, and it got so bad that I wound up pulling off half of my left eyebrow.

[amaviena]

be conscious of your actions. I know it's hard, but perhaps rub instead of pull. I find that reasonably appeases me. Instead of biting my nails, I clean under them with my teeth. Sure, gross, but better than biting/pulling/picking. I pick at my lip skin. So I started roughly running my teeth over them. Which satisfies the need for me to pick, but leaves the skin.

Also, I bought a clarisonic brush.

[ebatts]

I bite the skin off my lip, and sometimes I start biting holes in my lip. I've been trying to stop and doing better, but I still have the urge to do it.