Be carefull what you read


When I first discovered that there was a name for this passtime of mine I bought all the books I could to try and help myself stop.

Unfortunately, I never finished reading any of the books because they were so damn depressing, enough to make you pull your hair out!

Do I really need to read about people saying trich destroyed their life and they can't go out or have relationships??? Is this really the support I need to stop???

NO!

Although, it did make me realise that my pulling wasn't so extreme.

None of the books were objective, they all had this undertone that hair-pulling is a nasty disorder sent by the devil and you must dedicate your life to exorcising it out of you! Sadly, I believed it for a while, and it made me feel terrible which, ironically, lead to me pulling more.

So far, I haven't found anywhere that doesn't have this negative and judgemental view of hair-pulling and hair pullers, and I just wish that someone had told me years ago that there are other views and not to take any book as gospel, nomatter how much psychiatry experience the author has!!


Please let me know if you have found anywhere or anyone who doesn't see hair-pulling as the enemy but as just part of who we are, I'm wondering if I'm the only one???