Here's a list of FREE tips to stop hair pulling, which people with trichotillomania have provided to us by completing our online questionnaire
| Exposure to Sunlight | Playing my CD | Free Acceptance of my condition |
| Cutting out sugar, glucose caffeine and popcorn helps me be pull free. | Getting up and doing something to take my mind off it | Covering my scalp with shampoo, lotion and hair conditioner (all mixed) |
| Playing with Beanies | Keeping a diary | Getting lots of sleep |
| squeezing a stress ball | Wearing a hat | working out |
| Having false fingernails makes gripping impossible | Not being alone | Taking a long hot shower |
| Rug making | Eating | Dancing |
| Silly Putty | Wet hair | Wearing gloves |
| Stop 'n Grow | Colouring or drawing | tapestry or cross stitch |
| talking to other trichsters | ![]() |
throwing away the tweezers |
| knitting | Being involved and active | |
| Having my hands occupied | sewing | |
| wearing plasters on my fingertips | crochet | |
| cooking | sex | distraction |
| Going for a walk (free) | Playing good music and dancing or singing, | Going out somewhere public |
| Cycling | taking a hot bath | studying at the library rather than home |
| plenty of sleep | Eating bananas | taking potassium supplements |
| Staying away from people who put me down | I keep my correspondence in a box by the television so I can write cheques, pay bills and write envelopes while watching. | Eating a pomegranate. It takes AGES and you can watch a whole film while picking at the seeds. Sunflower seeds also occupy the hands. |
| Pairing my socks while watching TV | Reading only in public - i.e. on a bench in a park. | Sorting my sewing box while watching TV |
| I only allow myself 30 mins of TV at a time. I can manage to stay pull free for 30 mins | Stroking a pet | Asking for what I want. |
| making patterns with pins in a pin cushion, then pulling them out and starting over again. | I keep my nail polishes by the TV. Polishing my nails gives me time to refocus on something else and forget my urge to pull. | YOUR TIP GOES HERE! |

