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Trich or Demodex Mites?
OCD & Related Behaviors / by tealWater7555
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 July 25th
...See more TW: hair pulling, trichotillomania Hey, New to 7cups and the OCD 7cups community. I (26F) have a question before I head into my 2nd therapy session.  Has anyone else recently starting pulling hair? I have anxiety but I have never pulled or eaten my hair before. In January, I noticed pimples on my face had tiny hairs poking out. I tried to tweeze them out and instead pulled out a few hair splinters. Over time, I observed the hair splinters were broken full length hairs under my skin. This phenomenon has been witnessed by friends/family which reassures me. I'm not hallucinating this sensation/experience.    However, this event has led to months of madness. Through my research, I decided I had a demodex mite outbreak and starting treating the acne. The recommendations online did help my problem. We are now in July and I am still struggling.  I have an obsession over the full length hairs that cross my face and twist around each other forming pimples. I can not determine if this is an unhealthy obsession that requires a re-evaluation of my anxiety as OCD or if I just need to go to the dermatologist haha  
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