Kimberlee House it sucks..I haven't pulled for about a week now and I have been using Latisse so they are growing back I'm fast..I hopei dont end up pulling again lol
I am 28 and have been pulling lashes since I was child. It stopped for a while but when I’m really stressed I pull. I also like to rub my nail against my lashes and feel my lashes and then pull 😔 it’s weird I hate it
I'm 14 years old and have been dealing with this condition since i was 8 years old. It's so nice to know that I'm not alone. My main problem area as well are my eyelashes. Middle School has been rough with all of this because random people will just come up to me and ask about what happened to my eyelashes and I don't know what to say. I take medicine and I've had therapists left and right. I still can't seem to stop. I've gone for months without pulling and yet I will still slip up. Your video helps me know that I'm not alone even though I feel like i am sometimes so thank you. I know this is kind of long but i just really wanted to share my thoughts as well. I love your channel and you!!!
I have trich too (on my lashes) but sadly therapy doesn't help and my doctors refuse to give me meds 😭 I've had it since I was 9. I'm kinda weird tho because I'm not actually focusing it on it when I pull my lashes, it happens and I don't notice 😔
star girl same I’ve had it since I was 8 and it happened so quickly I had the app “Funimate” and when I started I had eyelashes about 7 videos later it was almost gone
I started when I was 7 and it's been a lot, I have rlly bad anxiety so I pull my eyelashes and when I was like 10 I would pull and pull so that a big patch was noticeable and it was super hard because they would grow back then I would pull them all over again, I haven't in awhile until tonight.
That was the same thing with me! I still struggle with it but now i know when its happening. One thing that really helped me was the bracelet Keen. Its pretty pricy but it made a HUGE different
My friend used to pull out her eyelashes too until a therapist suggested that she wear a rubber and on her wrist. When the urge came she snapped the rubber band on her wrist. After a few months of doing this therapy she was conditioned to not pull out any more.
I don't know if this is a slight case of trichotillomania, but I find that when I am taking a test in school, I am always pulling on my eyebrow. Like, really hard. The eyebrow hairs don't really like profusely come out or anything though. I have super thick and wirey eyebrows, so IDk why but pulling them just calms me down.
I really struggle with it. my parents say it's a bad habit but it feels like more. do eyelashes grow back? I'm seriously loosing my eyelashes and its killing me. last night I had a dream that there were 3 eyelashes left so I came here remembering to look it up.
beebo's forehead yes the grow back i felt like i had this problem but i just watched the relief vids anyway they typically grow like your hair someone said half inch in a month
please dont take this comment the wrong way, but you are very lucky and you think that you have it very heavily, but you really dont. I have no hair on my face, and tons of big bald spots on my head. You are very lucky, and you should be blessed and thankful. Stay awesome love!
I pull my eyelashes and eyebrows... It is really bad and I have no eyelashes and barely any eyebrows and I don't wear makeup. I am going into the 6th grade and I just tell people that I have a disorder where I was born without eyelashes and eyebrows. Most of my friends know the real story but they don't really understand. I started pulling when I was 7 and I'm 11 now. My aunt came down to visit because she lives in a different state and she doesn't get to visit very often. She was putting her makeup on and I always liked to watch her and she was using tweezers to perfect her eyebrows and make them look nicer and I didn't think anything about it because I didn't really care. One night I was sitting on the couch with my brother and I was playing my iPod and I started pulling out my lashes and eyebrows but it wasn't because of my aunt. My mom and dad had been fighting and later got a divorce and it was always a struggle for me. Everyone in my family thinks it's from my aunt and it's not.
Michaela Caldwell omg girl I tell my friends that too! I'm so mad at my self for Pulling my eyelashes out and I try to not do it but omg I CANT stop... I'm trying soooo hard to stop because it's very embarrassing. But to make it look like I have eyelashes I put eyeliner on and it makes my eyes pop and look normal(ish) and it makes me feel a little better so I recommend that!!
Michaela Caldwell SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME, one night when i was about 8 i had something in my eye so my mom said there was an eyelash in my eye, so i pulled it out and like it almost like was a trigger and i like started pulling out my lashes more often and it got out of hand.
Your description is so accurate. I totally relate and trich has taken its toll on my life in all areas. It was immensely hard to hide it and like you, very few people actually know that I've struggled with this for about 13 years. I also started with my lashes and moved onto eyebrows, but slowly it progresses to my hair. The struggle and inner battle has been the hardest thing I've had to go through in my entire life. The shame after pulling and then relapse, when you were doing so well! Im still struggling to have my hair grow back and it truly is discouraging seeing my bald spots every day. But, I hope to say I'm 100% free one day, but like you said it's all about will power. Thanks for sharing, it really helps to know I'm not the only one.
I also have it, I have been trying to grow them back. I am extremely ashamed of myself. I pick my eyelashes because it helps calm me. I feel my eyelashes and they feel hard, when I am stressed. I was pick free for 4 months before! Then I broke that streak last night. I was so ashamed I cried myself to sleep... I still have hope and won't stop trying! Dont give up! 😊
I've been pulling my top eyelid lashes for 15+ years. For some reason it feels so good but on the contrary I looked weird lol. I knew I was missing out on a significant beauty trait but it felt so good and they take so long to grow back fully. I've stopped now that I finally put my foot down and tell myself to not pull them. Good luck to the people trying to stop. If I can do it you can too!
Fellow sufferer. Mine was very bad when I was in my teens, but it did even itself out. I'm in my 50's and still get the urge when I'm stressed...which is all the time. Working from home during lockdown left me with all my eyelashes...but once I started commuting again flared. Sharing this was very brave - thank you for your honesty. You are not alone!
Thank you so much for sharing this video with all of us and being brave enough to do so. I am a heavy eyelash/eyebrow puller and I have absolutely no hair (besides the occasional one) on my eyes or brows. To see someone open up about their condition has left me in tears because I have been doing this since third grade and I am about to be a junior next year. I have tried to stop again and again but it never seems to work out for me. Only my best friend. my parents, and part of my family know the truth and I am scared if anyone else found out, I would lose all of my friends. Being in high school doesn't help with my anxiety and constant urge to pull. I can see that every time my dad looks at me all he sees is me with no eyelashes and all I want is to get better. But thank you again for showing me that I am not alone and there are many people out there who suffer from Trichotillomania.
I've had trich for almost 20 years (since I was 5) & I've recently been more open to learning about it & accepting it. I've quit a few times but of course to no avail... I know you're still working on yourself but please keep these videos coming pls
I don’t really know what triggers me to pick them but it just happens and while I’m doing it, I can’t stop. I never knew this was a thing until I looked up a video on how to stop.
Idk if you remember me but I commented on this video when I had thricotillomania I was going through the a hard time but since then when I watched this video I made a goal to not pick my eyelashes anymore! And because of u my eyelashes are fully grown and I defeated the battle with trich! I finally feel beautiful now and I can finally look at people straight in the eye and not worry that they will notice. Thank you so much!!!! Idk where I would be without you! Love ya!!💋👀
I read the description about how parents should be supporting. I also pull my lashes from 6 years old (now I am 22) and the first 10 years my mom would always say how ugly I was, that everyone would be laughing at me, that no one would ever want to be friends with me etc. And even now that she just stopped talking about it, just thinking of the things ahe said makes me cry uncontrollably. I always thought that something was wrong with me...
The day I wrote this comment I realized there was a patch of eyelashes missing . I was in class and I was thinking “what’s a good saying that funny when I’m triching ?” And I came up with this .... “I’m going tricho-mode “ 💀
Thank you for sharing! I started when I was in 3rd grade, and I am currently 18 still suffering from this. I thought I was alone, but it feels good to know that I am definetly not alone!
I can’t believe that there are more people like me! I thought I was like the only person that did this to myself! I’ve been doing it ever since third grade, I’m a sophomore in high school now! I think the worse period of time with my disorder was middle school, especially sixth grade because I had no eyebrows whatsoever. I’d get made fun of and picked on and still do when my sixth grade yearbook picture comes up. Then it was more my eyebrows, but since eight grade it’s been more eyelashes. Now I’ve been able to grow out my eyebrows but unfortunately I have almost no eyelashes at all. I usually try to cover it up with eyeliner but sometimes I still get questions on why I have little to no eyelashes. I feel ugly and the exact opposite of feminine most of the time and I saw my disorder as self harm because I did it to myself. I’ve been a bit open about it to my friends and boyfriend but I’m still ashamed of it. I still hate when anyone looks me in the eye, even him. He says he doesn’t mind but the whole time I just think that I’m disgusting. I’ve gotten over the habit before but it came back just a bit over a year later, when everything had just grown back. I’ve gotten over the eyebrow pulling mostly but I still have strong daily urges to pull on my eyelashes. I hope I can get over it soon, and I hope anyone else that suffers from this can get over it too. But don’t do it for others, do it for yourself. Do it to increase your self confidence, not to pleasure others or prove the baddies wrong. Welp, my hand hurts a bit from typing so I guess I’ll catch y’all later! Have a nice day my lovelies!! 💓
I’m crying thank you for this video and bringing awareness . I felt like I was going crazy that I do this and no one else does ): I can’t stop pulling my lashes!! And if I don’t pull it feels like it’s on fire!!! I just start pulling subconsciously..
I miss your posts so much girl! Hope all is okay and if not my prayers are with you. Just wanted to tell u that i miss seeing your videos. I had no idea u suffered from this disorder too. Be strong and God bless!
Laura Marconi thank you so much I appreciate that all is fine with me I just AM taking a break from UA-cam due to laptop issues and video editing program issues I gotta get some kinks worked out but I'll be back to UA-cam soon thanks for the concern you're super sweet :-)
hey, it's official been 3 days since i've stopped ik that's not a lot but it is to me it's the longest i've went. last month i tried to stop then on january 11th i had a relasped then i quit. i started again last week i finally have control over myself. i just wanted to let yall know that YOU CAN DO THIS IT IS POSSIBLE 1). find what triggers you ex boredom always have something to do, mirrors stay away from mirrors it's a rlly big problem 2). KEEP YOUR HANDS busy!! i've been playing games like subway surfers and piano tiles to keep my hands moving lol it helps if you don't wanna play any games you could also read books or go for walks, meditate etc 3). believe in yourself it IS possible. 4). stop thinking about it the more you think abt it the more you want to do it 5). please don't make an account where you count the days download apps like quit that! so you don't have to be constantly reminded just check whenever you want 6). IT'S OKAY TO RELASPE 7). if you're like me and you have thoughts like " they'll never grow back so what's the point " they will use vaseline or castor oil and rub it on your eyelid every night & morning you've got this also i'm here if you ever need to talk
Began at about the same age, and progressed when I was put back into school. And I was stuck in a place where I felt ashamed. Then my parents divorced. And after that I moved three times. Even now I feel I can't do my regular activities, feel lazy in a sense but actually depressed. And going from one house to the other isn't fun whatsoever. I love seeing my family but dislike that we aren't tight, ya know? We were once close and now I feel like the puzzle wasn't held together right and it just crumbled in my hands. Yeah, things went from okay, to not so, to bad, to -not exactly hating everything---but just never wanting to do a thing. I am better but still have these moments from time to time. Pulling less and less, sometimes in large amounts. But still trying my best to resist. I use to completely haAte coloring or painting. I love to draw but imagine color there. But recently I've come to love painting, not yet coloring but we'll see lol, and I've painted so much and have had a day where I had the opportunity to sell my art. Didn't sell a single one, but really the point is it was so nice to have my art out there, being seen, thought about, and liked. It was calming and sweet. And shortly after, I got into writing a lot more and mahhn it was so amazing. I wrote so much and so often. Just writing about whatever was going on in my head. Venting, ranting, blah-ing.. haha, just whatever was on my mind, I wrote down. My point being, do things you enjoy, even though maybe you don't want to do a thing. If you want to wear makeup, then go for it. If you want to paint, write, draw, ride a bike, walk to the library and find a book you might not like but soon come to enjoy. Find something else to try that you may have disliked and see if you like it now. Do good things. Maybe...bring joy to someone you love. Or help someone and listen to them, come to know them. Hangout with friends and have a good time, set aside some of these trials for a moment and live happy even if it basically hurts or literally hurts. Just try. Do it. Try something new, love it, endure and believe you can overcome something you thought you were powerless to fight against. Find yourself again and be yourself. Set goals, work to achieve them, and succeed. Yeah it's a long road, but we have people to turn to really we do. It's so difficult to open up but it is worth the try. Do goods things and love it. Wear that crown, yall🍍
I've done it on and off since 1999 as a kid. It does return when I'm going through a stressful/tough time. For me, it's my hair that I pull, I'm actually surprised and was unaware that others pulled their brows or eyelashes (you learn something new everyday). What I miss the most is getting my hair cut at a hair salon or dyed. I'm tired of trimming my own hair or dying it. Last time I went to the hair dresser, she pointed out my bold spot and I felt soooo ashamed and embarrassed by my bold spots on my head that I'm too afraid to go and get my hair done. I buy wigs now and wear those for special outing occasions. I've been recently trying to wear a thick head band on my head that covers the bold spot area. The headband acts as a barrier between my fingers and hair, so when my fingers tap the band instead of my hair/head, I stop that urge of pulling.
so in relationships , they would never say anything , not that i knew of , they probably wondered but never asked and i would always try to say in my head i need to grow them back before they realize i have none so that they can be happy and i can also , i just never thought ab how i felt , bc ppl would always bash me so i would end up make goals to make them happy and not bash me anymore . the thing that triggered this whole thing was when i was 11 and i got exposed of doing something that wasn’t grown at all nor inappropriate.
I used to suffer from this badly and the way I got better was to be aware of it happening and to tackle the underlying anxiety causing me to pull hairs.
Have dealt with this since age 15 .... years of growing them to only then pull them ALL out again ... eyebrows and eyelashes ... I relate to all you have said ... it's a challenge !
I have this disorder too... when it first started I thought I was the only one who did this and it embarrassed me when I had no eyebrows and eyelashes and people would stare at me... when I told a doctor about it they said they have met others who did this so it made me feel a less stressful when I was not the only one...
I actually got diagnosed when I got a biopsy done on where my bald spot was. I was in denial about it and they got the biopsy to see if I had alopecia but saw that the pattern of baldness resembles the hair being ripped out rather than just falling out.
I love your video, it helps me to feel not so alone. I have been pulling my eyelashes and eyebrows for 15 or 16 years now. I have severe anxiety and panic 24/7 so I just can't stop the pulling no matter how hard I try or how much I hate myself for doing it. I can't wear fake lashes, they feel to uncomfortable on me. So I just have to walk around wearing eyeshadow and black liner hoping no one will notice or say anything. I don't pull out all my brows anymore, so I can just fill those in some and they look fine, but i do pull out all my eyelashes. They are getting harder and harder to grow back each time, it scares me that one day they will not come back. My husband is great and he doesn't care if I have lashes or not, he still thinks I am beautiful, but I still hate myself for doing it. I am in the process of growing them back from the most recent pull, but I am so scared that when they come back that won't be able to control myself for long and that I will pull them all again. It is a vicious cycle. I am so afraid my daughter is going to start doing this because she has seen me do it my whole life. I don't want that for her. I am trying so hard to beat this, and I hope one day I can. I hope you find a way to beat it as well!
FNALLY! I figured what it’s callled. It happened when I was 11. I got stress and I started pulling my eyelashes. I’m beating this now, I don’t pull my eyelashes but my eye lashes are still growing.
I have trich as well, but only pull out my eyebrows, my left brow more than the right. I can't explain the sick, gratifying feeling of it. I do feel pleasure every time I hear them come out or know I've managed to pull them out. I wish I would stop doing this. I usually stop when I've noticed it's been really bare. I have to paint my eyebrow/s in. My sister studied psychology and she did say there no known cause or treatment, but that it did happen in phases. It comes, then goes for a few months, then comes back again.
I went to high school for years with no eyelashes or eyebrows. Everyone laughed at me and at least one person left a negative comment about in my year book too
I feel like you’d look so good with a red lip or a grey/mauve 🤩 also I have been suffering from trich for a long time and I was pulling my hair out so much (especially during therapy... I would pull out a chunk and shove it between the couch cushions) that I shaved my head a few years back... that was the worst it got. I’m now trying to change my habit of pulling out my eyelashes and eyebrows bc I don’t want to have patches anymore. I’ve been using falsies so that I don’t pick at them and it’s been helping a lot, as for the eyebrows... idk I’ve been trying to figure that one out
When I was 11 , i pulled my eyelashes out and was bold for 12 years! Then I stopped for 15 years, but because of mascara, I started this bad habit again! I think I will give up on make up all together so that I dont pull them out any more!
I have suffered from this for 21 years ( I’m 26 now) I have plucked literally everywhere on my body and it has got so severe in recent years, I “pop” ingrown hairs on my leg to the point of bleeding, leaving probably thousands of scars on my legs. I have gone to therapy, medications, nothing helped. 😢
I thought I was really weird and thought i was the only one, it all started in elementary school during a test i got so stressed out I started pulling out my eyelashes and next thing I knew I had none, zero. My friends started to notice and i never knew how to explain it so I just told them my eyelashes just fell out one night while i was sleeping (idk how that was a better excuse) all the way threw middle school i started pulling on my eyebrows and that's when i realized i needed to s t o p. I'm in highschool now and i have finally started to stop my erges and my eyelashes are back! I've actually completely stopped biting my nails this year which is so exciting! I've not completely stopped pulling on my eyelashes but it's definitely dialed down. I'm so glad I'm not the only one.
After all this time i never thought id see so many people suffering from the same thing. Ive been doing this since i was 7 and now im a mom with 2 kids of my own at 19. Im so tired of putting on eyeliner just to make my lids not look so bald as well as the patches missing from my eyebrows. I hope this helps me.
If you rly want to stop u should wear medium length acrylic nails, my eyebrows and lashes sometimes completely disappear but I have been wearing these nails for 2 months now and they are almost back :)
My lashes grew back eventually, but I took vitamin E supplements, and ate tons of healthy food fruits, mostly apple, now they look almost normal, and I managed to put myself in control... I do have craving to temper with them but imideately I notice any eyelash pulled out or fallen out I concentrate on my behavior
I literally thought I was the only one who pulled my eyelashes out!!! This is made me feel so much better that I'm not alone ❤️ my eyelashes are completely bare on both sides but I've stopped pulling them out. I'm hoping they grow back because I've pulled them out so many times! I literally feel your struggle of having to go out everywhere with false eye lashes on and not forgetting glue just incase they fall off! I even get questions like 'why do you wear false eyelashes everyday' it's so annoying because nobody understands!
I have had tricotillinmainia since I was 6 and Now I'm 11. i've always been ashamed of it. in the past 20 minutes I just finished picking what I had been growing out for the past 3 months. I'm devastated. I've tried therapy, medication and short nails. it never works. I just want this to stop. I just want my eyelashes back.
I'm pretty sure mine started off being anxiety. I don't remember the moment or the day it started. think at 11 years I started. I wasn't able to grow it back until the age 23 I was great for 2 years and then got stressed. I really do think tho now it has to do a little with anxiety but mostly OCD. the lashes have to be perfect. same on both side, they have to curl and not clump. there's a lot of expectation now to be perfect. it sucks. I feel like I have to have mascara on 24/7. but I have successfully grew them back 3 times already so I know I can do it. thanks for making the video!!!
I was told I have this. I’ve been doing this since I was 9 and I’m embarrassed to work on it in therapy. I tried wearing fake nails which helped for two weeks but now I can’t afford them so I’m back to doing it. I want to stop because I have no eyelashes and I feel ugly sometimes
I'm 24 an I've suffered from it since I was like 7. when I was about 14 I realized that I looked rlly bad cuz I only had a few hairs on my face an that's why I no longer felt beautiful an feminine. I started drawing on my brows an putting on fake lashes everyday. I got used 2 decieving everyone with my looks. the only people who knew were my parents (who never seeked help for it) an my best friend. about 4 yrs ago I stopped putting on lashes cuz its a huge inconvenience an I had a newborn son. I'm just now able 2 apply mascara on my natural lashes (which are extremely sparse) an I'm still drawing my brows on but I'm allowing more hair 2 grow now. this is something that people laugh at an don't understand. this disorder put me in a dark place for a while. My biggest fear is becoming middle aged an my hair never grows back. But I plan on doing a lil therapy 2 help myself along. Thanks, ur story rlly inspired me 2 stop keeping it bottled up inside
I pull my eyelashes out whenever I'm sad, anxious, or stressed and never knew i had this...I feel better when i go it but then after i feel ugly and try to stop..I'm still trying to stop but sometimes I fail
I had a bare patch on my hair in 4th grade and my teacher embarassed in front of my whole class.I'm in 7th grade now and I have been dealing with this since I was 9. What triggered this was the death of my mom and sis when I was 3.
I’m 99.9999% sure I have trichotillomania, but I’m way too embarrassed to tell my mom to see a doctor or something. a large portion of my eyelashes on both of my eyes are gone, and when they grow back I pull them out with tweezers. I wear makeup to cover up the spots and just because I love makeup. I absolutely hate when people notice and ask me about the bald spots on my eyes, it’s very embarrassing so I say I have a disorder and there isn’t a cure for it.
My condition started when I was about 9 or 10 I'm now 13 it isn't that bad anymore. But i made my condition seem like a joke i would say to my friends "I have a quarter of an eyebrow" but i was really hurting on the inside and i broke down at school. Plus the situation got even worse when my uncle one of my bestfriends past away. To where i had almost no eyelashes and one part of each of my eyebrows. I feel so relieved that i know im not the only one that does this. So thank you for helping me not feel alone😰😰😭😭🤗🤗😇😇😷
I've been taking my lashes since 2018 and i though it was something normal because actually it make me feel good and i told the eye doctor that their falling alone till now I've never got diagnosed but i still like taking my lashes out and everyone believe that their falling alone and i don't put fake lashes I've never did
Thank you so much for this! I suffer from this, and because most other people don't have it, they don't understand why I can't just stop, despite me knowing what I'm doing. Tbh I had an urge to pull while just watching this video 😅 I've dealt with this issue every since 5th grade. When I first started, I barely had eyelashes, and little to no eyebrow. I had a rough middle school year. My mom seemed to not understand ( she still doesn't ) so she would always punish me whenever she didn't see hair come back or catches me doing it. Then when 7th grade came along, I was doing a lot better. More hair, less pulling, it was great. But then 8th grade came along and that was another really bad year for me which I think may be why I've started again. I'm a 9th grader now, and I'm back at messing with my hair, often times I try really hard to pluck hairs on my body only I could see that way others wouldn't notice bald spots. But sometimes I would watch videos of others puck hair to distract me from the urge of plucking my own. Even though I've gotten better, I still struggle with this. Watching this video made me feel less alone, especially reading the comments. Thank you all so much and thank you for making this video ❤
I literally do this. My anxiety makes it worse. I use to rip out all of them and now it’s just the top… unless it goes everywhere. 😔 I wish I wouldn’t do this!!!
I have trich too!!!!! I pull my eyelashes. I thought I was alone, because I've never seen anyone with it but me. Some people aren't understanding of it, why I do it, why I can't stop. I sometimes get made fun of :(((
Your eyelashes look AMAZING I wish mine looked like that your ok I promise try castor oil you can get it from Walmart just apply it to the affected area
I pick the lashes on my left eye. Have done for about 6 months and my mom always tells me to stop but I can’t!! Am glad to know there’s a name to this!! Is it worth going to the doctors about?
This is what happened with me. I still haven’t told anyone that I took 5em off myself....... now I want them to grow back but I moved and now I’m stressed
I myself have this disorder. I've been suffering from it since age 13...I really suffered the worst with it my senior year of high school...I still have urges, but they're not as bad as they were my teen years
Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. I suffer from it as well and it's been going on since i was a young kid... Like 8 or so. But now it's at an all time high and I've went and pluked out all my eyelashes.... I cant control myself and I hate it cause now i look so ugly and i wont go out.... idk how to stop it.
i dont know how to stop and it really bugs me and i sually do it in the summer but since school has started, i have no eyelashes o. either eyes it i dont talk face to face with any body anymore. I try and hide it but my friends are starting to notice and im afraid to tell them that i pull them out. Im so embarresed that i dont even tell my mom.
When i stare at screens i pull out my eyelashes and its so embarrassing i pulled out my eyebrows cause thy were so bushy and now im made fun of because i have uneven eyebrows. The eyelash part. I have this crusty thing that grows on my eyelids and i pull it off but then my eyelashes come off. Thats how it started and i want it so end as soon as possible
I don't feel so alone. I've had 3 boyfriends in my life and I did tell them and they all understud. Some nasty girl I knew called it out in front of a guy I was seeing and I just looked at her and I said he knows! It was bad when I was in school...I would try to pull the small ones that where growing out but because I could not get them i would scratch my eye line which made me have scabs. I think I was about 9 when it started and I still do it now at 32. I wish I could stop I really do.
Does anyone have a similar problem where they pull their eyelashes but the hair doesn't come out? I do this because I feel like there's grit at the end of my eyelash so I instinctively go to pick it off but there is nothing actually there. It leads to my eyes feeling slightly sore because I'm constantly messing about with them.
I don't understand why, but it soothes me knowing somebody like her suffers from trich too.
I completely agree
Italia Perez Ikr my 4yearold cousin and eye havebit its just so soothing.
I've trichotillomania as well and I'm 14
Ayee J Same
Same
Thank you so much for sharing :) I'm trying to quit pulling lashes..its so annoying I want to stop lol
Charmagne McKinney You can do it.. willpower you got it
I have the same problem.
Kimberlee House it sucks..I haven't pulled for about a week now and I have been using Latisse so they are growing back I'm fast..I hopei dont end up pulling again lol
I stopped a year ago
I suffer with this too it sucks
Holy crap This is an actual thing😲
I've been struggling with this for such a long time
This is honestly incredible...I can finally stop this for good
I thought that too until my friend took off her fake lashes and told me she pulled her lashes too I was sort of so happy somebody understud me x
Same
I'm almost crying because there's another trich lash puller.
Same! Most people pull their hair and I never find anyone who does the same thing as me.
I am the same
I pull lashes too
@@cideliamarron3782 me too :(
I am 28 and have been pulling lashes since I was child. It stopped for a while but when I’m really stressed I pull. I also like to rub my nail against my lashes and feel my lashes and then pull 😔 it’s weird I hate it
anyone get urges to pull while watching this?
grace elliot I am.
Ugh me 😫
Not me 😂
grace elliot no!
grace elliot ikr?
I'm 14 years old and have been dealing with this condition since i was 8 years old. It's so nice to know that I'm not alone. My main problem area as well are my eyelashes. Middle School has been rough with all of this because random people will just come up to me and ask about what happened to my eyelashes and I don't know what to say. I take medicine and I've had therapists left and right. I still can't seem to stop. I've gone for months without pulling and yet I will still slip up. Your video helps me know that I'm not alone even though I feel like i am sometimes so thank you. I know this is kind of long but i just really wanted to share my thoughts as well. I love your channel and you!!!
Whenever you feel the urges stop what your doing and do something The
I have trich too (on my lashes) but sadly therapy doesn't help and my doctors refuse to give me meds 😭 I've had it since I was 9. I'm kinda weird tho because I'm not actually focusing it on it when I pull my lashes, it happens and I don't notice 😔
star girl same I’ve had it since I was 8 and it happened so quickly I had the app “Funimate” and when I started I had eyelashes about 7 videos later it was almost gone
I started when I was 7 and it's been a lot, I have rlly bad anxiety so I pull my eyelashes and when I was like 10 I would pull and pull so that a big patch was noticeable and it was super hard because they would grow back then I would pull them all over again, I haven't in awhile until tonight.
I want to give you a tip get long acrylic nails and everyday put Vasoline on your eyelashes and eventually they will grow eventually x
Angel’s ROBLOX that helped me! Now that I ain’t got no fake nails no more it‘s actually very hard to Not pull! But y‘all can manage that!
That was the same thing with me! I still struggle with it but now i know when its happening. One thing that really helped me was the bracelet Keen. Its pretty pricy but it made a HUGE different
My friend used to pull out her eyelashes too until a therapist suggested that she wear a rubber and on her wrist. When the urge came she snapped the rubber band on her wrist. After a few months of doing this therapy she was conditioned to not pull out any more.
There is no cure it probably came back
CreativeGirl415 you're right
@@SarahWolsky even for a little bit. Just stopping for a week is good, I'm going to try this
Lisa K Troy I tried that didn’t work for me
I'm gonna try this! Thank you!
I don't know if this is a slight case of trichotillomania, but I find that when I am taking a test in school, I am always pulling on my eyebrow. Like, really hard. The eyebrow hairs don't really like profusely come out or anything though. I have super thick and wirey eyebrows, so IDk why but pulling them just calms me down.
Kennedy Walsh It's just a nervous habit as long as you are not getting bald patches its all good :)
I really struggle with it. my parents say it's a bad habit but it feels like more.
do eyelashes grow back? I'm seriously loosing my eyelashes and its killing me. last night I had a dream that there were 3 eyelashes left so I came here remembering to look it up.
beebo's forehead yes the grow back i felt like i had this problem but i just watched the relief vids anyway they typically grow like your hair someone said half inch in a month
ren w-h just stop pulling I know your gonna hate hearing it but it’s true try not to pool too much because then the hair follicles damage
It does :)
Renzo Yes, eventually they will grow back, it takes a few months though.
4 months.
please dont take this comment the wrong way, but you are very lucky and you think that you have it very heavily, but you really dont. I have no hair on my face, and tons of big bald spots on my head. You are very lucky, and you should be blessed and thankful. Stay awesome love!
I pull my eyelashes and eyebrows... It is really bad and I have no eyelashes and barely any eyebrows and I don't wear makeup. I am going into the 6th grade and I just tell people that I have a disorder where I was born without eyelashes and eyebrows. Most of my friends know the real story but they don't really understand. I started pulling when I was 7 and I'm 11 now. My aunt came down to visit because she lives in a different state and she doesn't get to visit very often. She was putting her makeup on and I always liked to watch her and she was using tweezers to perfect her eyebrows and make them look nicer and I didn't think anything about it because I didn't really care. One night I was sitting on the couch with my brother and I was playing my iPod and I started pulling out my lashes and eyebrows but it wasn't because of my aunt. My mom and dad had been fighting and later got a divorce and it was always a struggle for me. Everyone in my family thinks it's from my aunt and it's not.
Michaela Caldwell
Michaela Caldwell omg girl I tell my friends that too! I'm so mad at my self for Pulling my eyelashes out and I try to not do it but omg I CANT stop... I'm trying soooo hard to stop because it's very embarrassing. But to make it look like I have eyelashes I put eyeliner on and it makes my eyes pop and look normal(ish) and it makes me feel a little better so I recommend that!!
Michaela Caldwell I used to do that
Michaela Caldwell SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME, one night when i was about 8 i had something in my eye so my mom said there was an eyelash in my eye, so i pulled it out and like it almost like was a trigger and i like started pulling out my lashes more often and it got out of hand.
Michaela Caldwell I have it and when ppl ask i just smirk and say i was in a bear attack.
It really felt embarrassing when peple ask me why i had no eyelashes at school. I still had depression till now.
Your description is so accurate. I totally relate and trich has taken its toll on my life in all areas. It was immensely hard to hide it and like you, very few people actually know that I've struggled with this for about 13 years. I also started with my lashes and moved onto eyebrows, but slowly it progresses to my hair. The struggle and inner battle has been the hardest thing I've had to go through in my entire life. The shame after pulling and then relapse, when you were doing so well! Im still struggling to have my hair grow back and it truly is discouraging seeing my bald spots every day. But, I hope to say I'm 100% free one day, but like you said it's all about will power. Thanks for sharing, it really helps to know I'm not the only one.
I also have it, I have been trying to grow them back. I am extremely ashamed of myself. I pick my eyelashes because it helps calm me. I feel my eyelashes and they feel hard, when I am stressed. I was pick free for 4 months before! Then I broke that streak last night. I was so ashamed I cried myself to sleep... I still have hope and won't stop trying! Dont give up! 😊
I've been pulling my top eyelid lashes for 15+ years. For some reason it feels so good but on the contrary I looked weird lol. I knew I was missing out on a significant beauty trait but it felt so good and they take so long to grow back fully. I've stopped now that I finally put my foot down and tell myself to not pull them. Good luck to the people trying to stop. If I can do it you can too!
Fellow sufferer. Mine was very bad when I was in my teens, but it did even itself out. I'm in my 50's and still get the urge when I'm stressed...which is all the time. Working from home during lockdown left me with all my eyelashes...but once I started commuting again flared. Sharing this was very brave - thank you for your honesty. You are not alone!
Thank you so much for sharing this video with all of us and being brave enough to do so. I am a heavy eyelash/eyebrow puller and I have absolutely no hair (besides the occasional one) on my eyes or brows. To see someone open up about their condition has left me in tears because I have been doing this since third grade and I am about to be a junior next year. I have tried to stop again and again but it never seems to work out for me. Only my best friend. my parents, and part of my family know the truth and I am scared if anyone else found out, I would lose all of my friends. Being in high school doesn't help with my anxiety and constant urge to pull. I can see that every time my dad looks at me all he sees is me with no eyelashes and all I want is to get better. But thank you again for showing me that I am not alone and there are many people out there who suffer from Trichotillomania.
I've had trich for almost 20 years (since I was 5) & I've recently been more open to learning about it & accepting it. I've quit a few times but of course to no avail... I know you're still working on yourself but please keep these videos coming pls
I don’t really know what triggers me to pick them but it just happens and while I’m doing it, I can’t stop. I never knew this was a thing until I looked up a video on how to stop.
Idk if you remember me but I commented on this video when I had thricotillomania I was going through the a hard time but since then when I watched this video I made a goal to not pick my eyelashes anymore! And because of u my eyelashes are fully grown and I defeated the battle with trich! I finally feel beautiful now and I can finally look at people straight in the eye and not worry that they will notice. Thank you so much!!!! Idk where I would be without you! Love ya!!💋👀
+Hannah Olsen Aweee it makes me so happy to hear you were able to fully grow your lashes.. keep up the good work💜💜
I read the description about how parents should be supporting. I also pull my lashes from 6 years old (now I am 22) and the first 10 years my mom would always say how ugly I was, that everyone would be laughing at me, that no one would ever want to be friends with me etc. And even now that she just stopped talking about it, just thinking of the things ahe said makes me cry uncontrollably. I always thought that something was wrong with me...
The day I wrote this comment I realized there was a patch of eyelashes missing . I was in class and I was thinking “what’s a good saying that funny when I’m triching ?” And I came up with this ....
“I’m going tricho-mode “ 💀
Thank you for sharing! I started when I was in 3rd grade, and I am currently 18 still suffering from this. I thought I was alone, but it feels good to know that I am definetly not alone!
I thought I was the only one.
Thank you for this video! It really helped me and others too!
I can’t believe that there are more people like me! I thought I was like the only person that did this to myself! I’ve been doing it ever since third grade, I’m a sophomore in high school now! I think the worse period of time with my disorder was middle school, especially sixth grade because I had no eyebrows whatsoever. I’d get made fun of and picked on and still do when my sixth grade yearbook picture comes up. Then it was more my eyebrows, but since eight grade it’s been more eyelashes. Now I’ve been able to grow out my eyebrows but unfortunately I have almost no eyelashes at all. I usually try to cover it up with eyeliner but sometimes I still get questions on why I have little to no eyelashes. I feel ugly and the exact opposite of feminine most of the time and I saw my disorder as self harm because I did it to myself. I’ve been a bit open about it to my friends and boyfriend but I’m still ashamed of it. I still hate when anyone looks me in the eye, even him. He says he doesn’t mind but the whole time I just think that I’m disgusting. I’ve gotten over the habit before but it came back just a bit over a year later, when everything had just grown back. I’ve gotten over the eyebrow pulling mostly but I still have strong daily urges to pull on my eyelashes. I hope I can get over it soon, and I hope anyone else that suffers from this can get over it too. But don’t do it for others, do it for yourself. Do it to increase your self confidence, not to pleasure others or prove the baddies wrong. Welp, my hand hurts a bit from typing so I guess I’ll catch y’all later! Have a nice day my lovelies!! 💓
Yep, I have extreme anxiety and extreme OCD..... this video is meant for me
I need help I did this and don't know what started it I have no hair on my left eye ugh!!
I don't either
Me too and it's very hard
Yes! I caught myself picking my eyelashes and found your video! I'm doing everything I can to stop
I’m crying thank you for this video and bringing awareness . I felt like I was going crazy that I do this and no one else does ): I can’t stop pulling my lashes!! And if I don’t pull it feels like it’s on fire!!! I just start pulling subconsciously..
I have this too
I miss your posts so much girl! Hope all is okay and if not my prayers are with you. Just wanted to tell u that i miss seeing your videos. I had no idea u suffered from this disorder too. Be strong and God bless!
Laura Marconi thank you so much I appreciate that all is fine with me I just AM taking a break from UA-cam due to laptop issues and video editing program issues I gotta get some kinks worked out but I'll be back to UA-cam soon thanks for the concern you're super sweet :-)
I am a boy and I suffer from this.....
hey, it's official been 3 days since i've stopped ik that's not a lot but it is to me it's the longest i've went. last month i tried to stop then on january 11th i had a relasped then i quit. i started again last week i finally have control over myself. i just wanted to let yall know that YOU CAN DO THIS IT IS POSSIBLE 1). find what triggers you ex boredom always have something to do, mirrors stay away from mirrors it's a rlly big problem
2). KEEP YOUR HANDS busy!! i've been playing games like subway surfers and piano tiles to keep my hands moving lol it helps if you don't wanna play any games you could also read books or go for walks, meditate etc
3). believe in yourself it IS possible.
4). stop thinking about it the more you think abt it the more you want to do it
5). please don't make an account where you count the days download apps like quit that! so you don't have to be constantly reminded just check whenever you want
6). IT'S OKAY TO RELASPE
7). if you're like me and you have thoughts like " they'll never grow back so what's the point " they will use vaseline or castor oil and rub it on your eyelid every night & morning you've got this also i'm here if you ever need to talk
I have lived with trichotillomania for 25 years I am 35 years old now and am currently in therapy to treat my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Began at about the same age, and progressed when I was put back into school. And I was stuck in a place where I felt ashamed. Then my parents divorced. And after that I moved three times. Even now I feel I can't do my regular activities, feel lazy in a sense but actually depressed. And going from one house to the other isn't fun whatsoever. I love seeing my family but dislike that we aren't tight, ya know? We were once close and now I feel like the puzzle wasn't held together right and it just crumbled in my hands. Yeah, things went from okay, to not so, to bad, to -not exactly hating everything---but just never wanting to do a thing. I am better but still have these moments from time to time. Pulling less and less, sometimes in large amounts. But still trying my best to resist. I use to completely haAte coloring or painting. I love to draw but imagine color there. But recently I've come to love painting, not yet coloring but we'll see lol, and I've painted so much and have had a day where I had the opportunity to sell my art. Didn't sell a single one, but really the point is it was so nice to have my art out there, being seen, thought about, and liked. It was calming and sweet. And shortly after, I got into writing a lot more and mahhn it was so amazing. I wrote so much and so often. Just writing about whatever was going on in my head. Venting, ranting, blah-ing.. haha, just whatever was on my mind, I wrote down. My point being, do things you enjoy, even though maybe you don't want to do a thing. If you want to wear makeup, then go for it. If you want to paint, write, draw, ride a bike, walk to the library and find a book you might not like but soon come to enjoy. Find something else to try that you may have disliked and see if you like it now. Do good things. Maybe...bring joy to someone you love. Or help someone and listen to them, come to know them. Hangout with friends and have a good time, set aside some of these trials for a moment and live happy even if it basically hurts or literally hurts. Just try. Do it. Try something new, love it, endure and believe you can overcome something you thought you were powerless to fight against. Find yourself again and be yourself. Set goals, work to achieve them, and succeed. Yeah it's a long road, but we have people to turn to really we do. It's so difficult to open up but it is worth the try. Do goods things and love it. Wear that crown, yall🍍
i pull my eyelashes and i have used the same story with the fake eyelashes and i still struggle with everything but i send love to you!
I didn't realize so many people are affected by Trich. I am so glad i'm not the only one.
I've done it on and off since 1999 as a kid. It does return when I'm going through a stressful/tough time. For me, it's my hair that I pull, I'm actually surprised and was unaware that others pulled their brows or eyelashes (you learn something new everyday). What I miss the most is getting my hair cut at a hair salon or dyed. I'm tired of trimming my own hair or dying it. Last time I went to the hair dresser, she pointed out my bold spot and I felt soooo ashamed and embarrassed by my bold spots on my head that I'm too afraid to go and get my hair done. I buy wigs now and wear those for special outing occasions. I've been recently trying to wear a thick head band on my head that covers the bold spot area. The headband acts as a barrier between my fingers and hair, so when my fingers tap the band instead of my hair/head, I stop that urge of pulling.
so in relationships , they would never say anything , not that i knew of , they probably wondered but never asked and i would always try to say in my head i need to grow them back before they realize i have none so that they can be happy and i can also , i just never thought ab how i felt , bc ppl would always bash me so i would end up make goals to make them happy and not bash me anymore . the thing that triggered this whole thing was when i was 11 and i got exposed of doing something that wasn’t grown at all nor inappropriate.
I used to suffer from this badly and the way I got better was to be aware of it happening and to tackle the underlying anxiety causing me to pull hairs.
Have dealt with this since age 15 .... years of growing them to only then pull them ALL out again ... eyebrows and eyelashes ... I relate to all you have said ... it's a challenge !
I have been pulling my lashes for years! It feels so good. I'm glad I'm not alone.
I have this disorder too... when it first started I thought I was the only one who did this and it embarrassed me when I had no eyebrows and eyelashes and people would stare at me... when I told a doctor about it they said they have met others who did this so it made me feel a less stressful when I was not the only one...
Man I feel you all the way. I pull eye lashes, and almost everywhere else. I’m tired of it though I want to stop.
I actually got diagnosed when I got a biopsy done on where my bald spot was. I was in denial about it and they got the biopsy to see if I had alopecia but saw that the pattern of baldness resembles the hair being ripped out rather than just falling out.
This video melted my heart.. I'm so glad that you opened up. I'm a new subbie and I fully support you. We're with you every step of the day
Stina Baby21 Awe your comment is so sweet thank you xoxo
I love your video, it helps me to feel not so alone. I have been pulling my eyelashes and eyebrows for 15 or 16 years now. I have severe anxiety and panic 24/7 so I just can't stop the pulling no matter how hard I try or how much I hate myself for doing it. I can't wear fake lashes, they feel to uncomfortable on me. So I just have to walk around wearing eyeshadow and black liner hoping no one will notice or say anything. I don't pull out all my brows anymore, so I can just fill those in some and they look fine, but i do pull out all my eyelashes. They are getting harder and harder to grow back each time, it scares me that one day they will not come back. My husband is great and he doesn't care if I have lashes or not, he still thinks I am beautiful, but I still hate myself for doing it. I am in the process of growing them back from the most recent pull, but I am so scared that when they come back that won't be able to control myself for long and that I will pull them all again. It is a vicious cycle. I am so afraid my daughter is going to start doing this because she has seen me do it my whole life. I don't want that for her. I am trying so hard to beat this, and I hope one day I can. I hope you find a way to beat it as well!
+Shannon Riffle Sending you lots of love ❤️❤️❤️
I love the feeling when it comes out. I wish I can stop
FNALLY! I figured what it’s callled. It happened when I was 11. I got stress and I started pulling my eyelashes. I’m beating this now, I don’t pull my eyelashes but my eye lashes are still growing.
I have trich as well, but only pull out my eyebrows, my left brow more than the right. I can't explain the sick, gratifying feeling of it. I do feel pleasure every time I hear them come out or know I've managed to pull them out. I wish I would stop doing this. I usually stop when I've noticed it's been really bare. I have to paint my eyebrow/s in. My sister studied psychology and she did say there no known cause or treatment, but that it did happen in phases. It comes, then goes for a few months, then comes back again.
I can’t stop plucking them out I’m trying to stop
I went to high school for years with no eyelashes or eyebrows. Everyone laughed at me and at least one person left a negative comment about in my year book too
I feel like you’d look so good with a red lip or a grey/mauve 🤩 also I have been suffering from trich for a long time and I was pulling my hair out so much (especially during therapy... I would pull out a chunk and shove it between the couch cushions) that I shaved my head a few years back... that was the worst it got. I’m now trying to change my habit of pulling out my eyelashes and eyebrows bc I don’t want to have patches anymore. I’ve been using falsies so that I don’t pick at them and it’s been helping a lot, as for the eyebrows... idk I’ve been trying to figure that one out
I suffer from this way worse. I pulled out every single lash on my eye, and all my eyebrows.
When I was 11 , i pulled my eyelashes out and was bold for 12 years! Then I stopped for 15 years, but because of mascara, I started this bad habit again!
I think I will give up on make up all together so that I dont pull them out any more!
I have suffered from this for 21 years ( I’m 26 now) I have plucked literally everywhere on my body and it has got so severe in recent years, I “pop” ingrown hairs on my leg to the point of bleeding, leaving probably thousands of scars on my legs. I have gone to therapy, medications, nothing helped. 😢
I thought I was really weird and thought i was the only one, it all started in elementary school during a test i got so stressed out I started pulling out my eyelashes and next thing I knew I had none, zero. My friends started to notice and i never knew how to explain it so I just told them my eyelashes just fell out one night while i was sleeping (idk how that was a better excuse) all the way threw middle school i started pulling on my eyebrows and that's when i realized i needed to s t o p. I'm in highschool now and i have finally started to stop my erges and my eyelashes are back! I've actually completely stopped biting my nails this year which is so exciting! I've not completely stopped pulling on my eyelashes but it's definitely dialed down. I'm so glad I'm not the only one.
After all this time i never thought id see so many people suffering from the same thing. Ive been doing this since i was 7 and now im a mom with 2 kids of my own at 19. Im so tired of putting on eyeliner just to make my lids not look so bald as well as the patches missing from my eyebrows. I hope this helps me.
If you rly want to stop u should wear medium length acrylic nails, my eyebrows and lashes sometimes completely disappear but I have been wearing these nails for 2 months now and they are almost back :)
My lashes grew back eventually, but I took vitamin E supplements, and ate tons of healthy food fruits, mostly apple, now they look almost normal, and I managed to put myself in control... I do have craving to temper with them but imideately I notice any eyelash pulled out or fallen out I concentrate on my behavior
I've been doing this for 5 years I'm 14 now, u said yours was major?? All mine are gone! 😭 send help
I literally thought I was the only one who pulled my eyelashes out!!! This is made me feel so much better that I'm not alone ❤️ my eyelashes are completely bare on both sides but I've stopped pulling them out. I'm hoping they grow back because I've pulled them out so many times! I literally feel your struggle of having to go out everywhere with false eye lashes on and not forgetting glue just incase they fall off! I even get questions like 'why do you wear false eyelashes everyday' it's so annoying because nobody understands!
I have had tricotillinmainia since I was 6 and Now I'm 11. i've always been ashamed of it. in the past 20 minutes I just finished picking what I had been growing out for the past 3 months. I'm devastated. I've tried therapy, medication and short nails. it never works. I just want this to stop. I just want my eyelashes back.
I suffer from it as well.I HAVE NONE @ALL...ITS EMBARRASSING BECAUSE SOMEONE WILL SAY"where is ur lashes.
I stopped pulling my lashes. The only reason why I used to is because it HURT. And I thought I was lonely. Luckily, we are FAMILY!
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I still pull my lashes because they hurt
I haven't told my parents about me pulling out my eyelashes and eyebrows but they've mentioned it before. I don't know how to tell my parents
Whoa! There's a name for this?! I started in 4th grade and I'm currently 38....currently on a regimen to grow back eyelashes.
I'm pretty sure mine started off being anxiety. I don't remember the moment or the day it started.
think at 11 years I started. I wasn't able to grow it back until the age 23 I was great for 2 years and then got stressed. I really do think tho now it has to do a little with anxiety but mostly OCD. the lashes have to be perfect. same on both side, they have to curl and not clump. there's a lot of expectation now to be perfect. it sucks. I feel like I have to have mascara on 24/7. but I have successfully grew them back 3 times already so I know I can do it.
thanks for making the video!!!
I was told I have this. I’ve been doing this since I was 9 and I’m embarrassed to work on it in therapy. I tried wearing fake nails which helped for two weeks but now I can’t afford them so I’m back to doing it. I want to stop because I have no eyelashes and I feel ugly sometimes
I'm 12 right now I CANT STOP I plucked half my eyelashes on my eyes. I have school Not this week but the next. I need to grow my eyelashes back ASAP.
I'm 24 an I've suffered from it since I was like 7. when I was about 14 I realized that I looked rlly bad cuz I only had a few hairs on my face an that's why I no longer felt beautiful an feminine. I started drawing on my brows an putting on fake lashes everyday. I got used 2 decieving everyone with my looks. the only people who knew were my parents (who never seeked help for it) an my best friend. about 4 yrs ago I stopped putting on lashes cuz its a huge inconvenience an I had a newborn son. I'm just now able 2 apply mascara on my natural lashes (which are extremely sparse) an I'm still drawing my brows on but I'm allowing more hair 2 grow now. this is something that people laugh at an don't understand. this disorder put me in a dark place for a while. My biggest fear is becoming middle aged an my hair never grows back. But I plan on doing a lil therapy 2 help myself along. Thanks, ur story rlly inspired me 2 stop keeping it bottled up inside
I pull my eyelashes out whenever I'm sad, anxious, or stressed and never knew i had this...I feel better when i go it but then after i feel ugly and try to stop..I'm still trying to stop but sometimes I fail
I had a bare patch on my hair in 4th grade and my teacher embarassed in front of my whole class.I'm in 7th grade now and I have been dealing with this since I was 9. What triggered this was the death of my mom and sis when I was 3.
I suffer with trich as well. I've had this for about 7 years now and i've never have worn fake eyelashes ever. I only use foundation.
I’m 99.9999% sure I have trichotillomania, but I’m way too embarrassed to tell my mom to see a doctor or something. a large portion of my eyelashes on both of my eyes are gone, and when they grow back I pull them out with tweezers. I wear makeup to cover up the spots and just because I love makeup. I absolutely hate when people notice and ask me about the bald spots on my eyes, it’s very embarrassing so I say I have a disorder and there isn’t a cure for it.
My condition started when I was about 9 or 10 I'm now 13 it isn't that bad anymore. But i made my condition seem like a joke i would say to my friends "I have a quarter of an eyebrow" but i was really hurting on the inside and i broke down at school.
Plus the situation got even worse when my uncle one of my bestfriends past away. To where i had almost no eyelashes and one part of each of my eyebrows. I feel so relieved that i know im not the only one that does this. So thank you for helping me not feel alone😰😰😭😭🤗🤗😇😇😷
I basically have no eyelashes its really embarrassing when people ask what happened and some people are really mean about it
I've been taking my lashes since 2018 and i though it was something normal because actually it make me feel good and i told the eye doctor that their falling alone till now I've never got diagnosed but i still like taking my lashes out and everyone believe that their falling alone and i don't put fake lashes I've never did
Thank you so much, I literally just ripped out half my eyelashes with an eyelash curler, and I'm crying, I don't know what to do
Thank you soo much for sharing!! I suffer as well and have been since elementary school💗
Thank you so much for this! I suffer from this, and because most other people don't have it, they don't understand why I can't just stop, despite me knowing what I'm doing. Tbh I had an urge to pull while just watching this video 😅 I've dealt with this issue every since 5th grade. When I first started, I barely had eyelashes, and little to no eyebrow. I had a rough middle school year. My mom seemed to not understand ( she still doesn't ) so she would always punish me whenever she didn't see hair come back or catches me doing it. Then when 7th grade came along, I was doing a lot better. More hair, less pulling, it was great. But then 8th grade came along and that was another really bad year for me which I think may be why I've started again. I'm a 9th grader now, and I'm back at messing with my hair, often times I try really hard to pluck hairs on my body only I could see that way others wouldn't notice bald spots. But sometimes I would watch videos of others puck hair to distract me from the urge of plucking my own. Even though I've gotten better, I still struggle with this. Watching this video made me feel less alone, especially reading the comments. Thank you all so much and thank you for making this video ❤
I pluck my eyelashes to the point where there are tiny eyelash stubs, I try to stop, but no luck.....
I literally do this. My anxiety makes it worse. I use to rip out all of them and now it’s just the top… unless it goes everywhere.
😔 I wish I wouldn’t do this!!!
I have trich too!!!!! I pull my eyelashes. I thought I was alone, because I've never seen anyone with it but me. Some people aren't understanding of it, why I do it, why I can't stop. I sometimes get made fun of :(((
Your eyelashes look AMAZING I wish mine looked like that your ok I promise try castor oil you can get it from Walmart just apply it to the affected area
I pick the lashes on my left eye. Have done for about 6 months and my mom always tells me to stop but I can’t!! Am glad to know there’s a name to this!! Is it worth going to the doctors about?
This is what happened with me. I still haven’t told anyone that I took 5em off myself....... now I want them to grow back but I moved and now I’m stressed
I myself have this disorder. I've been suffering from it since age 13...I really suffered the worst with it my senior year of high school...I still have urges, but they're not as bad as they were my teen years
Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. I suffer from it as well and it's been going on since i was a young kid... Like 8 or so. But now it's at an all time high and I've went and pluked out all my eyelashes.... I cant control myself and I hate it cause now i look so ugly and i wont go out.... idk how to stop it.
i dont know how to stop and it really bugs me and i sually do it in the summer but since school has started, i have no eyelashes o. either eyes it i dont talk face to face with any body anymore. I try and hide it but my friends are starting to notice and im afraid to tell them that i pull them out. Im so embarresed that i dont even tell my mom.
I have had this forever but I have never known what this was called
When i stare at screens i pull out my eyelashes and its so embarrassing i pulled out my eyebrows cause thy were so bushy and now im made fun of because i have uneven eyebrows. The eyelash part. I have this crusty thing that grows on my eyelids and i pull it off but then my eyelashes come off. Thats how it started and i want it so end as soon as possible
I wish these would stop being on my reccomended, great video but when I see the word it makes me want to pull
I recommend cbd oil it really helps with the hair pulling
I pull my eyelashes when I'm stressed out I only stop when my eyelids feel raw and it starts to hurt
I suffer from this too and I thought I was the only one in the whole world-
I honestly do it for no reason at all, and I kinda enjoy looking at it and blowing it away..... What is wrong with me?
I have a O.C.D and I can’t stop and I have been doing this since 2nd grade, and I wear fake eyelashes very little. But I’m tying to fix it.
Thank you for sharing. I've started pulling my lashes again and I want to stop.
I don't feel so alone. I've had 3 boyfriends in my life and I did tell them and they all understud. Some nasty girl I knew called it out in front of a guy I was seeing and I just looked at her and I said he knows! It was bad when I was in school...I would try to pull the small ones that where growing out but because I could not get them i would scratch my eye line which made me have scabs. I think I was about 9 when it started and I still do it now at 32. I wish I could stop I really do.
Does anyone have a similar problem where they pull their eyelashes but the hair doesn't come out? I do this because I feel like there's grit at the end of my eyelash so I instinctively go to pick it off but there is nothing actually there. It leads to my eyes feeling slightly sore because I'm constantly messing about with them.