Reached rock bottom and could only come back up I am 35 years old. I accidentally stumbled on trichotillomania whilst looking at alopecia. I was looking at alopecia because I thought that was what I have had for the past 20 years. My symptoms never really matched alopecia, but I thought this was the closest to what was wrong with me. I now know that I have trichotillomania, and that I'm not alone, although for years I thought I was. I'm really not sure why I started to pull my hair ... VIEW POST

Love has been the best cure I recall my grandmother's wedding when I was six. My grandfather had died before I was born. I loved my grandma, but something about my step-grampa made me nervous. He always told me what beautiful eyes I had. I disliked being around him so much that I stopped going there alone. But not before I began pulling out my eyelashes. My mother dragged me to doctor after dermatologist. I was diagnosed with dry skin, mites, allergies, lack of enzymes. I was treated ... VIEW POST

Jo has been pulling for as long as she can remember Talking about trichotillomania freely ... Just learning about her condition Hello, After reading other people's experiences,I realised I'm not all that different or extreme. I've been pulling out my eyebrows and eyelashes for as long as I remember. I don't know why, although I always blame it on a specific incident when I was younger. The only other thing I can think of is that everybody used to say that I had/ have beautiful ... VIEW POST

Jess can remember collecting her eyelashes aged 11 Mother and daughter support each other with trichotillomania Hi everyone... I don't remember exactly when or how i started pulling my eyelashes, but i do know I was about 11 when I started to collect my eyelashes and put them next to my bed. When i was younger, I would firmly pull one eyelash out at a time and roll it around between my fingers. For some reason i was fascinated by the feeling of the little hair. At that age there was ... VIEW POST

Worse since her divorce 4 years ago I've been pulling my hair out for about 20 years and eating the white root. At the beginning I disguised the bald spots with Mane hair thickening spray which used to come off at night on my pillow, people used to ask why I had dark bed linen, then I visited several therapists, who just talked about anything shocking that had happened, but nothing springs to mind. Since my divorce 4 years ago I wear a wig as it is now worse, as I am 40 this year I ... VIEW POST