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Trichtitillomania is it a OCD
Is pulling your hair out a OCD disorder ? I think so because im obsessed with the urget to pull. My Physchiatrist recommends Congnitive Behavioral Therapy to reduce the urges. She also tried medications Buspar did not work because thats a anxiety med and i don't have anxiety.
Trichotillomania is an Impulse Control Disorder. I tried CBT but it was hard to be honest with my psychologist because I was embarrassed. Zoloft has really helped me, though.
I have had Trichtitillomania since I was 12. It all started when I was obsessed with having lice, I remember my doctor pulled one of my hairs out looking for eggs, so I started doing it and never stopped to this day. The reason I don't stop is because it gives me a pleasurable sensation, it has nothing to do with anxiety, I do it when I am happy too.
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Hi thanks for your interesting post. I am sorry to hear that you struggle with OCD, but by the sounds of things you are finding ways to cope. I understand compleley about the tapes in your head. When I become psychotic and delusional, my head is full of chatter too. Most of the time I know things in my head are not real. But sometimes my condition takes full control of my mind where I have to be hospitalized whether I am on meds or not. In the past I have become non complient with my meds, because i thought I was feeling fine. I realize now thats a big mistake to do that, and thats my disease taking control of my mind. With my pulling hair, I do not do it to hurt myself. I do not do it either to release emotional pain. For me its more like a uncontrolable urge and a very bad habit. Anyways , I wish you luck and all the best with your health and a long remission form OCD if possible.
When I try to avoid a compulsion I struggle not do another negative coping method. I'm learning to do more positive coping method, but its harder. I would not say that the hair pulling was the compulsion more like the need for pain to cope. Some time I would dig my nails in to my skin or even cut at worst I would bang my head, anything to cause pain.
At one stage I was diagnoised with borderline personality disorder but when I started to see a new phycologist I chanlaged this diagnoises on the grounds that meds alone were helping me with BP symptoms as I had given up seeing my last phycologist because I decame to depressed after a home invasion. Being treated as OCD, anxiety and PTSD is working far better than my last phycologist treating me from a BP therapy point of view. My OCD was just too ridged at the time when I seeing my first phycologist by the time I started seeing my new phycologist my med's and me had chalanged alot of my very ridgid obsessions. I still have a fue very ridge obsessions left but I'm trying real hard to brack threw the wall, i can picture my self on the other side of the thinking(wall) but I cant get threw. In other word I want to view life from a normal point of view and for the most part I'm fine but when I've had too many OCD triggers some of the OCD obsession just become very ridgid again and no one can tell me other wise and people or my self will just make them stronger if I feel backed in to a corner. Example:I recently had to choose to be a group in my cert 2 communities studies class and if people had not said "what group will you be in" every fue min I could have relaxed and made a choice and been done with it. but people just had to keep pushing me to make a choice asap. My compulsion are mental not visual. so by them asking every time almost reset me every time. a person with visual compulsion might start counting from the begining again or have to go back and check again. My issues is what I call tapes in my head. It's like when an OCD trigger hit the same thoughts start playing in my head over and over like a tape. If I get more anxious or stressed out or backed in to a corner the tape get worse go's for longer starts picking up new things to add to the obsession. the only way to get control of the spinning out of thoughts is to calm down and relax and distract my self and come back to it another time when I'm calm. because when my OCD is solid like a wall you could put a gun to my head and twll me to choose and i would say shoot me. thats how ridig they feel at there worst.
Take care.
At one stage I was diagnoised with borderline personality disorder but when I started to see a new phycologist I chanlaged this diagnoises on the grounds that meds alone were helping me with BP symptoms as I had given up seeing my last phycologist because I decame to depressed after a home invasion. Being treated as OCD, anxiety and PTSD is working far better than my last phycologist treating me from a BP therapy point of view. My OCD was just too ridged at the time when I seeing my first phycologist by the time I started seeing my new phycologist my med's and me had chalanged alot of my very ridgid obsessions. I still have a fue very ridge obsessions left but I'm trying real hard to brack threw the wall, i can picture my self on the other side of the thinking(wall) but I cant get threw. In other word I want to view life from a normal point of view and for the most part I'm fine but when I've had too many OCD triggers some of the OCD obsession just become very ridgid again and no one can tell me other wise and people or my self will just make them stronger if I feel backed in to a corner. Example:I recently had to choose to be a group in my cert 2 communities studies class and if people had not said "what group will you be in" every fue min I could have relaxed and made a choice and been done with it. but people just had to keep pushing me to make a choice asap. My compulsion are mental not visual. so by them asking every time almost reset me every time. a person with visual compulsion might start counting from the begining again or have to go back and check again. My issues is what I call tapes in my head. It's like when an OCD trigger hit the same thoughts start playing in my head over and over like a tape. If I get more anxious or stressed out or backed in to a corner the tape get worse go's for longer starts picking up new things to add to the obsession. the only way to get control of the spinning out of thoughts is to calm down and relax and distract my self and come back to it another time when I'm calm. because when my OCD is solid like a wall you could put a gun to my head and twll me to choose and i would say shoot me. thats how ridig they feel at there worst.
Take care.
Hi thanks for the reply to my post. I didn't quite understand what you meant. Are you transfering one compulsion to the other? Anyways I would like to share with you that my hair pulling has been in remission for three months now. I take a herbal medication called Inisitol. My hair pulling started about 6 years ago due to being delusional and believing bugs were in my hair. I also have Scizoeffective disorder. Thats like Schitzophrenic and Manic Depression together . You should check out this health forum online for Trich called Trich World . I am not allowed to post the link the web site here don't allow it.
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