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pull diary

well, I made it through most of my day without pulling my hair out… up until the verrry end when I suddenly found myself doing it while I was stressing out over some school stuff…

I’d caught myself doing it a few more times, idly, whilst sitting at my comp earlier in the evening, but I’d been able to stop it from happening..  guess the school stuff was too much  -.-

I think it was somewhere around 15.   maybe only 6 follicles.

I’ve actually been pulling quite a lot this week, and I’m kinda bummed out about it, but… ehh… more on that next time… this is just a short little note to myself..

I’m going to try and keep better track of the amount of pulling, starting now, so this is a new category of posts..

gross

it’s awful.
I took pictures today. the spot started off being the size of a dime, within the week it had turned into what it is now. it happened, as it usually does, very fuckin’ rapidly.

spot pic 1
pic 2

this is what happens every time I try to grow my hair out in the last several years. I don’t even know how many times I’ve tried to grow it - I’ve lost count.

although it looks disgusting and freaks me out… I can’t stop. I’m even pulling right now. I’m already back under the spell … the satisfying feel of the pull.. the sound it makes … seeing how many fat follicles I’ve gotten with each pull. biting them between my teeth when I get a good one. pulling to get more good ones, and being annoyed when there aren’t any …

my fingertips are sore; my scalp is too. it’s red from the abuse. I’ve been sitting, hunched over at my LED light each night feeling like a cancer patient going for some kind of radiation… then applying “do gro” cream to the spot …

the same ritual I’ve done for 2+ years now, it’s so awful … I feel so weird while going through the motions.. and let’s not forget the time consumption..

my room is surrounded by wigs, I have so many of them now. there’s fake hair EVERYWHERE.

yet I can’t stop, now that my hair is long enough to pull. I did notice that I have been able to stop myself a bit more than usual lately, by trying to remind myself that no matter HOW good it feels, the feeling is NOT worth the misery for so many months afterward.

I don’t know what I’m going to do to hide this =( the BF is going to see it soon, there’s no way he won’t… it’s really hard to hide since my hair is so short, there’s nothing to cover it. and I can’t wear a wig to bed… or a hat! =( I mean, the spot is even big enough now that if he rubs his hand over my head, he’ll FEEL it, even if it’s totally dark in the room.

I’m frantically searching for some way to make my own extensions ….to cover the spot and also keep my fingers from getting at my hair… but my hair isnt even really long enough to put clips into yet, ones that will stay, anyway. =( how do men hide it?? I think I’m going to try and find out what guys do… because my hair is as short as most guy’s hair is , right now…

*sigh* … I rubbed the spot just now, since it’s sore … the fresh bald spots always feel so weird, almost like… rubbery… the skin is just so bare and raw feeling… its like rubber…

it won’t be long now before there are spots of this size in other places, too … its the same pattern that happens time and time again…

I wonder… maybe, if I got some fake plastic nails … long ones on my thumb and index finger… if I’d be unable to get a good grip then…

hmm… might have to look into it…

man… I really hope some new solutions for trich sufferers come out in the next few years… it’s starting to become well-enough known about now that I’m sure there have to be people working on things…

ow =/

vacation was nice, but unfortunately it wasn’t so nice to my head.   I guess I was a bit absent-minded and bored, because it was worse than it’s been in quite a long time… =(   I have a gigantic spot coming up the right side of my head now, behind my ear.  impossible to hide despite the light color of my hair now.     left side of head behind ear now has a spot about half the size of the other… and of course one a bit larger than a quarter right smack in the middle of my crown.    the same spots as always……   it hurts quite a lot now, too.  my inded finger and thumb are sore from all the pulling I’ve done in the last week.   it had to have been several hundred hairs, maybe close to a thousand.   ugh.  how awful….   I’ve been enjoying biting off all the fat follicles as well.  I’m right back in there in that mindset now…..  must make appt my with hypnotherapist asap, now that I’m back.  hoping to get that scheduled this week.   shouldn’t wait so long in between appointments… (its been almost 3 months now I think)  …at the very least I think I need to go once a month…….

still, hopefully I can get back in control….  hoping to get some more extensions put in for awhile, but still haven’t found anyone in my area that does what I’m looking for…..

well… guess that’s it……  I’m pretty bummed out, but hey… the cycle continues… guess I’ll be spending a lot more time in front of my l.e.d light now…….  been biting some of the nails of my right hand, too…. in fact, my index finger is particularly sore now since I bit that one really far down… and have been putting all that pressure on it w/the pulling as well…

mehh.. well.. least I’ve been able to leave my eyebrows alone for the time being ;/

ugh

today’s a bad day…
hurricane outside is preventing me from going out and doing what I needed to do today…
so instead I sit here with my laptop, writing a paper for school, and pulling my hair. must have pulled at least 50 strands by now. biting the follicles when they’re there… always have to check for those of course.
trying to get a grip on it. it’s just so absentminded sometimes that it’s hard to even notice I’m doing it until it’s been a half hour…..

follicle obsession

Even though I haven’t been pulling much, I CANNOT stop thinking about the damn follicles.   I want to bite into one so badly I almost want to go grab a pair of tweezers so that I can pull the extremely short hairs…

I just keep envisioning a fat, juicy white follicle at the end of the hair tip…

I can’t stop thinking about it!! =/

*sigh*