Eyelash Growth

[Jay1350]

Hello,  I am 23 years old and i have been pulling out my eyebrows and eyelash since i highschool, so i have been doing it for  about 10 years now.  So far, i have been very lucky that my eyebrows and eye lashes had came back fully.  However, i strated to pulled them out again.  I only do this when i am stess because of school.  I feel like a freak sometimes... now I have a few bare spots on my eyes and my eyebrows are light and thin.  Will they grow back???  I am so worried that i am at my limit now and they won't.  Anyways, i dunno how to stop sometimes and I am always looking in the mirror to see if they are coming back.  I started pulling them out in mid-Oct.  

Anyways will they come back and how long??
Is there anything i can do to help me stop thinking about them and stop pulling??

[Jay1350]

Yeah, i am going to after I am done school.  I hope they will come back.  Some are starting to, I just hope they will be full again.  So far they have always had come back.  

[Joan M Pernoud, MD]

I agree with Buttercup.

You are not "crazy" (out of touch with reality) but do need help. I would see a psychiatrist as they are the experts with medicines for these conditions.

[BUTTERCUP109]

You need to tell this to your doctor soon, you may have a form of obsessive compulsive disorder that can be helped with medication. Look up trichotillomania to learn more.