Guidelines for setting up a regional group of Trichotillomania Support Online.

Please advise us of meetings by using the feedback form so that they can be publicised on the website and sent out to people in your area via our newsletter. Meetings can be in any part of the world as long as the rules are adhered to.

If possible, wear a blue hairband, hat or bandana to enable people to identify you easily - even if you're an eyelash puller. If you're meeting in a public place, take a pale blue tablecloth or piece of fabric and lay it close to your meeting point for ease of identification. Some of our members prefer to take a bottle bag ... to symbolise party time and to help them be identified.

In public places please keep voice volume unobtrusive, to maintain discretion on behalf of those who do not yet want to disclose publicly. Support and nurture everyone and discourage criticism of self or others.

No members' email addresses or contact details may be distributed to anyone at all, including other trichotillomania websites.

No members of the press will be welcome at any meeting without the express written permission of everyone attending.

If cameras are taken to the meetings, no one may take a photograph of any other member without permission and no one will publish a photograph of any other member without written or emailed permission.The emphasis is always on positivity and the goal is always Growth. Pull free is possible, achievable and should always be strived for. There are other websites for people who want to accept pulling as a part of their life forever. Trichotillomania Support UK does NOT endorse the victim mentality or accept pulling or self harm as a permanent behaviour for any of its members.

Positivity and growth are our goals, so please end meetings on a positive statement and/or compliments to others.

Many people with trichotillomania have problems eating in public, so please try to have perhaps half of your meetings in a place unrelated to food.