Hello! I am fairly new to nocd and I was recently diagnosed with mild ocd. I’ve always subconsciously pulled my eyelashes out (not all but like 1-5 at a time) for as long as I can remember and thought it was a completely normal thing until pointed out. If this is something you also experience, what things can I do on top of therapy to hopefully nip this habit in the bud quicker because I love my lashes so much. Thank you :)
I didn’t know this was OCD, your very insightful. I do this with all my hairs tho just mostly eyebrow and eyelashes since they’re the easiest.
@Kat_Griffith I spoke with my therapist today and I believe it is categorized under other body focused behaviors, so definitely not something at the forefront of one’s mind when thinking about compulsions. I struggle with it a lot and I love makeup and stuff so much so I’d be really sad not to have any lashes left lol
@cashstella1 I’m VERY new to OCD so I feel the need to learn about it so I can understand it better so thanks for the info, I thought I just had weird happiest or something
@Kat_Griffith I too am very new so I get it! Weird habits def exist but this one might not be because it essentially is ripping out ur hair which isn’t good.
@cashstella1 Yay we’re the same, so sorry you have to deal with the horror :( but while we are on the topic do you know if excessive cracking is a compulsion. I believe it is for me because I put conditions on it almost every time (like if every finger or toe doesn’t crack I’ll sprain the ones that don’t, leading to grabbing my finger and TWISTING till it meets Jesus) but I have some friends that are suspecting they might have OCD and was wondering
@Kat_Griffith So I’m not like an expert so i can’t say for sure if it is or isn’t a compulsion BUT if the thought of not cracking all ur knuckles brings u any distress, it definitely sounds like something you should speak with a professional about.
fidget toys (specifically the wired finger massager rings) placed in key spots around the house have helped me. i still have pulling fits here and there but having an option to replace the compulsion does help. good luck!
@doriean thank you so much i’m zooming to amazon NOW
Idk if this is OCD per se, it feels more like perfectionism than anything. but I was wondering if anyone can relate. I’m a girl approaching the age of 20 and there are certain things I really want to be able to enjoy and pamper myself with, like getting my nails done, or getting a lash lift. But I’ve discovered that doing either brings me a lot of stress. For example, I just bought some nice press on nails last week and I put them on last night (which took me soooo long) and I’ve been so stressed about them since. I keep worrying that they’re going to fall off right away and I keep checking them and pushing on them to see, so much so that I worry I’m going to make them loose. I already had one looking like it was starting to lift, and instead of leaving it I pulled it off entirely cuz I’d rather start over and redo it than have it fall off, and now I’m worried my other nails are gonna fall off and that I should just pull them off now before they do. I keep pushing on one nail that feels loose to me. But it hasn’t lifted, but I’ve pushed it so much now that I want to rip it off. And another example, when I get a lash lift I worry so much because I start obsessing over the evenness of the curl on both sides. It always feels like one side is more curled than the other. Or that one side looks more fuller (more lashes) than the other and it makes me stressed. And I also obsess over those pesky lashes that just didn’t want to curl and I try pulling them out sometimes to make it look for even. It’s just little things like that which make these experiences unenjoyable for me, even tho I so badly want to enjoy them. I spent money on these nails and I want them to last and I’m so worried that I did them wrong and ruined it. I just don’t want them to fall off. But they’re caused me a lot of stress in the last 24hrs and I’ve been hyperfixating on them so much.
does anyone else struggle with this? specifically it is my eyebrows! i get a thought that one hair feels weird, and i’ll pull it out, but then i can’t stop because it triggers me to think another one feels weird. now, i barely have any hairs on either eyebrows. i keep trying to grow them back but it feels impossible to stop pulling the hairs sometimes. i’m excited to talk to my nocd therapist about this so i can start to regrow my eyebrows and not have this compulsion affect me so much!
Hey, my name is Mercy and I have a hair pulling disorder and I was wondering if anyone has some advice for stopping my habit. Thanks
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