Shaving your head with trichotillomania | my experience

Hello!

For so long I had thought shaving my head would solve the problem- i’d have no hair to pull and the fact it would air it out should make it heal better right?

Well … not exactly

My other tricho posts; my fight with trichotillomania / trichotillomania awareness

I ended up shaving my head completely by mistake. Despite having talked about it before, I had actually meant to put a no.7 guard on it. Not being the two sharpest tool in the shed, we never realised the guard wasn’t on.. shaving at a no. 0 instead. Upon realisation it was too late, having one side completely naked head- it would’ve been wierder to leave it as is rather than shave everything.

Prior to that, i only had two little scabs on the back of my head mid-skull that I had been constantly scratching.

I have a condition where my hair like to grow more than one hair within the same fullicule, which results in it bothering me, itching, etc. Just as like last time that I shaved my head (on a no.2 however), alot of these had sprawn, which makes the pulling on these mendatory. As it’s double with ingrowns and creations of pimples and fullicules infection.

To triple it, the left side of my head has been thermal burned- from my bang to behind my ear. While the tender flesh will simply turn red in occasions like while tacking alcohol or cold, the fuzzy scalp part that’d been burnt bother me from time to time, despite the burn happening little over a year ago.

You know where this is going.. this makes the tricho even worst as i’m constantly pulling at the tiny hair as it grows. Not only am I pulling while trying to sleep and while reading, but also when chillin’ on the couch and while driving or on my break at work. Wondering if i’m not doing it in my sleep even, as I wakeup with slight discomfort on my acrilic nails,

Having had almost completely stopped with the help of acrilic manicure .. i’m now back at the starting point.

The healing of the skin are easier however; as in this state I can better apply of ointment & cream while with long hair it never gets in the right placement and all your head get oily and disgusting. It also doesn’t scab, just leaving bare skin behind.

All in all, wouldn’t recommend. While this was a mistake, I had been thinking of doing this.. and I sure won’t be doing it again 😅 it’ll be a process until it’s all grown again and to stop my tricho intensity flare up