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09/01/2008 02:24
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 i have a problem being obsessive about my hair. I start to not like it and then I act on it by cutting it and there has been a few times I have shaved it off. i just did that today by shaving it off. my mom is getting really tired of me doing this and its frustrating me and making me feel bad about myself. I have tried to throw the scissors away but then I go by new ones or I use my husbands sheers to cutt on it but today i shaved it off with his sheers because i didn;t like the way I cutt it. I wanted to go to a professional to have them cutt my hair but instead I decied to do everything myself and have been for the last two years now. I am so tired of feeling the way I do about my hair and I wan't to break this habbit so bad. I have tried numerous times to stop but then I start it up again. My husband is even getting frustrated with me and he's tried to hide the scissors and sheers from me but i either find them or he just sometimes gives into me and gives them to me but really he shouldn't be acting on my compulsions. it isn't up to him to help me it is up to me to control my issues. I am just looking for support on this issue. I do take paxil cr and buspar and I don't wan't to change medications because it does help some of my issues but not the hair issue. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to overcome this and really mean an end to my hair issue of cutting on it....

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09/19/2008 04:20
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 I shave my head about once a year. Now and then, i will skip a year. There have been quite a few times, where i have gone from long hair, to shaved, in an instant, as a means to feel better. Then my friend's are happy for me, when i shave it, because then i am not messing with it, anymore.

If my hair gets past a certain point, i end up messing with it all day. Then I get sad, a few days after cutting it, but love how it feels.

"Talkin' 'bout soulshine. It's better than sunshine. It's better than moonshine. Damn sure better than rain. Well, now people don't mind. We all feel this way sometimes. You got to let your soulshine. Shine 'til the break of day."- Warren Haynes

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09/20/2008 02:12
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 I am somewhat the same way about messing with my hair. If my hair get's to a certain point then I stand in the bathroom and mess with it untill it is the way i wan't it. I like to have my hair short because with me having naturally curly hair i don't have to curl it. I can just wet it down and brush it and go. When it start's to get long though that is when I find it a nuisance and then I start cutting on it. What I have found that I need to do I go to a professional and have it cutt the way it should be. Thank you for your support to my hair problem. I am a women and what I do know is someone women do shave their hair off but I rather have someone cutt my hair then me. I worked for this company one time and they had this thing where you could donate your hair for people with cancer and so they were shaving off everyone's hair who wanted to give their hair and there were a few women that had their hair shaved off but it grew back in tim. What I wondered at that time is how they could go out into society with their hair all gone but what i realize now is that it is self esteem that we have to learn to like ourselfs instead of letting other's judge us. It kind of reminds me with my hair not beign there what it is like for people that have cancer and have gone through kemo therapy.
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09/20/2008 02:29
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 I could be going through a big hair phase myself soon. My hair is starting to get long, in a pompadour, kind of form, and I just bought some Coconut Oil hairshine, which is a smell, i'm obsessed with as well. I see myself tugging at my hair a lot soon. It gets long kinky curly really fast. Then I start becoming obsessed with tying it up, and making braids, and attaching it to my head.

Then somewhere, maintaining it just becomes bothersome, and if i'm not having the best day.....off with the hair. Enough of which, could house 9 heads. I have extremely thick hair. I really should donate.

"Talkin' 'bout soulshine. It's better than sunshine. It's better than moonshine. Damn sure better than rain. Well, now people don't mind. We all feel this way sometimes. You got to let your soulshine. Shine 'til the break of day."- Warren Haynes

"Brains aint me forte." - Angus Young
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