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Post by Scatterbrain » Fri May 26, 2006 12:03 am

I have been meaning to post this question for a while, but I could never bring myself to be able to. I find myself pulling out my eyebrow hairs and eyelashes. Many times I dont realize I'm doing it until I see the little hairs on my fingers. I did this when I used to SI, but it has gotten a lot worse since I stopped. Right now my left eye has significantly fewer eyelashes than my right. My friend did my makeup for my boyfriend's senior prom last weekend and she noticed it. Once I pull one out, it is really hard to stop and sometimes I can pull out a whole section of hair. Does anyone else have any experience with this? Is it related to SI at all? When I do it, I sometimes dont want to stop b/c I like the little sharp pain of pulling the hair out, but that doesnt happen everytime. Any advice would be appreciated!

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Post by Cellardoor » Fri May 26, 2006 2:29 am

Some times i find myself holding little clumps of fallen out hair, i twist a bit around and around till all the srands come out... and i never notice im doing it untill i dicover theres loads of hair in my hand....
but from my head, not my eyelashes...
Its wierd...
its not like si...

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Post by troubles undone » Fri May 26, 2006 5:02 pm

I ALWAYS pull at my eyebrows...so much so that once i had a big gap, and i had to draw in the line until the hairs grew back! :o :o :o

I don't think mine is SI related, but then i wouldn't swear to it...

I occasionally pull at my eyelashes, but not very often...and not very many

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Post by irishpecas14 » Fri May 26, 2006 11:58 pm

i do that... i've always done it. i don't quite know why..

both eyelashes and eyebrows...
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Post by squeegle_2419 » Sat May 27, 2006 4:07 am

noo not my hair put it is fun to do it to my friends boyf hahah
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Post by Licentia Poetica » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:47 am

It's not exactly related to SI.

It's an OCD called Trichotillomania.

So.. if your SI was a control thing.. you couldve replaced it subconsciously with this.
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Post by Scatterbrain » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:43 pm

Thanks for the info! I will look that up more thoroughly... My SI was a little bit of a control thing, so I think it might be a possibility...

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