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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-07-13 03:49 pm

[ SECRET POST #2384 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2384 ⌋

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Re: GC is cheaper than therapy

(Anonymous) 2013-07-13 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. And no, I don't mind.

When it first started, it was mainly one spot on my head that I was able to brush my hair over, and one leg. I never wore short pants or skirts, so that was easy to hide. As I got older (I've been doing this for about 17 or 18 years), I pretty much pulled from every possible location, including eyelashes and pubes. I always figured someone in my family would notice and call me on it, but no one ever did so I was lucky or unlucky in that regard, depending how you look at it.

Lately I've been trying to limit myself to one or two spots again. I had the idea that I could try to focus on my eyebrows, since that seems to be the socially acceptable form of trich, and it was my sister's commenting on my plucked eyebrows that got the whole thing started.

I keep the hair on my head really, really short now so it's not as easy to pull from there. Aside from eyebrows, it's mostly spots under clothing now. I don't do it unconsciously as much as I used to. It's usually when I'm bored or stressed out these days.

Re: GC is cheaper than therapy

(Anonymous) 2013-07-14 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
that sounds like progress, actually, it seems that you're gaining control over it if you're mostly relapsing when bored and stressed and not just unconsciously

although I'm guessing that therapy helps, it's not impossible to fight this sort of thing on your own, it just takes a lot of mental hoops and tricks and building up the belief that you can stop (or better and more effective yet, never start, stop that wandering hand!)