i have been pulling my hair out since i was 14.im now 20. i started pulling big clumps from the back of my hair and soon moved on to my eyebrows.this lasted for a year or so. over the last few months i have started again and only have one area on the crown of my head where i pull from. i get a calming sensation when i pull from here.i am now trying to stop again.

Hi i am 17 now and i have been pulling my eyelashes since the age of 6. It has really got me down, as i can't go a day without wearing eyeliner. My boyfriend of nearly 2 years thinks i look stupid without makeup! I also been picking out my pubic hairs since i was 12 and now i have got ingrowing hairs down there from the constant pulling. I went to the doctor but the doctor never heard of it. I don't think it has anything to do with stress for me as i am not really stressed.
It's really upsetting me that i do this and i do not know how to stop it!
Please help me! xxx

I'm 16, and i've been pulling out my eye lashes for months now, it gets to the point where i have bald patches on my eyes.
My mum just thinks i'm being stupid and tells me to stop doing it, but she doesnt understand that i cant seem to stop it, i have no control over it.
i dont know how to tell her about Trich, because i feel she'll say i dont have it, and that i'm just being stupid again.
I need HELP!
please.

i am now 21 and i have been pulling my eye lashes out from the age of 12. i dont know how to stop but there is a huge relief that i am not the only one. i have read that this can be caused by depression or other related illnesses. i dont believe i have any of these but i just like the feeling of having root of the hair on my skin. i know that sounds wierd. does anyone know how i can get this sorted??

Hi im katie and im 14. Ive been pulling since i was 12 almost 13. I only pull at my hair. But luckily i have thick hair so no bald spots(: but since im 14 and just started high school i have semi in my school and im beautiful and i have to riddle with my hair to get it too look right. So 8 days ago i was determined to quit this nasty habbit i got sick of it. So now ive been pull free for 8 almost 9 days. And guess what for once i feel amazing(: the first couple days are hard but then you just stop its pretty sick!! But all im saying is if you really wanna stop just determine yourself to stop and you'll be able to do it. Just motivate yourself it works:) and when your laying in bed or watching tv just have something in your hands to riddle around with it helps! Just make sure your commited in stopping this filthy nasty gross habbit so just whenever your reaching to your head to pull just yell STOP! i hope this helps(:

Well I can't tell you why I started eyelash pulling I really don't think it was stress or depression but merely a nice sensation picking off mascara when I was a teenager, and especially if I was tired. However, I then started doing it when there was no mascara and especially when I could feel a short broken one even taking the tweezers to them if I couldn't pull them out. Also eyebrows and hair on my head, dragging my nails along the hair. I've always managed to slow down once gaps appear long enough for them to grow back. But I am now nearly 40 and the gaps aren't growing back anymore, I have very sparse eyelashes and can just about get away with eyeliner filling the gaps and a bit of mascara. I have read somewhere that putting vaseline on the lashes is helpful as you can't get a grip on them, or fiddling with something to keep your hands busy which I will now try as I am concerned that I will end up with gaps that never grow back. I am amazed how many other people are doing this.
Best of luck to all other sufferers!

hello :)
Im 18 and so relived that what i have been suffering with for the past 7 years is actually a condition. It started when i was going to sleep and was just feeling fidgity. i was just fiddling with my (once long and lush) eyelashes when a few came out. Thinking nothing of it i started pulling out more and there you go.. Right now i think its the worst its ever been. On both eyes i half my lashes are missing in the middle. It definately gets me down when i have no make up on as its very noticeable and thoughtless people who point it out to me infront of others makes me want to cry there and then, and im glad you guys understand that its hard to just wait till they grow back becuase its hardest to resist pulling them out when theyve just started to grow back. Its hard when im stressed or upset too but ive found a fantastic solution which i hope will help you guys. Theyre called MAC false eyelashes. They look totally natural and stay on all day and last me for around 8 weeks because i take care of them. Theyre around £8 from harvey nicks. My mum told me about them because her friend has cancer and uses them. Although i struggle whenever i take them off and am going to sleep, just knowing that i have them helps me alot. Plus you can choose from about 50 types! of different lengths, sizes and styles. Theyve made me feel gorgeous again and not like an alien lol good luck guys and keep resisting the urge to pick! xxx

I also have this problem and remember the day i did it in first school when someone told me to do it and have done since, im now 22. Every now and again I go without pulling, it all looks nice then i pull again. I only pull my eyelashes and eyebrows so seem to be one of the lucky ones if u can say that as i dont pul from my head but really want help in being able to stop this as it is getting me down. I don't feel depressed in myself but I do get stressed a lot and very easy. I recently got married and thanks to my beautician, she managed to cover it all up with make up so you couldn't tell but I cant do this all time and just want to stop. I know it is a type of OCD as have done loads of research but nothing ever suggests a solution. Please help me, i just wanna stop!!!!

im 17, and i started pullin out my eyelashes wen i started studyin 4 GCSEs, im doin a levels n im still doin it! i stopped 4 a while n they all grew bac n looked great, but then i started again, its ruinin my appearance badly, its embarrassin n im worried cos theyre not growin bac as fast as they used 2. i need help, n if any1 nos how 2 make them grow bac faster that wud b good. im tryin not 2 let my mum on that im strugglin 2 cope wid it, so i dont want 2 go 2 docs. thanks

FINALLY A NAME FOR MY HORRBILE HABBIT!!! AND FINALLY I AM NOT ON MY OWN ANY MORE!!! i never kknew other people had this problem or that it was a condition at all!!! i have been pulling my eye lashes and eye browse sinse i was 12 or 13 i am now nearly 17. When i was thirteen i pulled every last lash and brow out till i was bald and became very depressed very quick!!! they were all in the sink!!!

i have my good and bad days…i can go weeks without bothering them, but then all of a sudden i cant stop!!! and it feels good…which is bad :/ i cant feel it either!!!

The other bad thing is i suffer from belapharitis which is a condition where the skin flakes on your eye lids and the eyes are very sesitive and saw, so pulling at them is not helping!!! i look like a druggy, steroids cured this for 3 years and now its back!!!

I have a big gap in my left eye now…i did that today and after i saw the gap i thought ARGH!!! again!!! I use eye brow filler all the time, my eye brows look pretty nice with it as i have hair there now, well mostly…

Thanks to this programme i can now see about treating this horrbile habbit!!! and i hope people with this condition come on here to!!!

lets hope i can get it fixed before my lashes dont grow back at all!!!
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