Tips to help you be Pull Free

We have compiled a long list of tips to stop hair pulling. This FREE list of tips to stop hair pulling has been made possible by users of this website, real people with trichotillomania who have provided these to us by completing our questionnaire. Trichotillomania advice from real people - you are the genuine trichotillomania experts!

Cooking	Having my hands occupied	Deep breathing for 30 seconds
Cycling	Stop 'n Grow on my nails	Practise mindfulness to be aware of my hands
Sewing, Rug making	Stress relief techniques	Phoning my buddy
Eating	Being involved and active	Sorting my sewing box while watching TV
Dancing	Plasters on my fingertips	Taking a hot bath
Writing	Silly Putty, slime or goo	Colouring or drawing
Wet hair	Going out somewhere public	Exposure to Sunlight
Squeezing a stress ball	Playing my hypnotherapy CD	Leave in conditioner
Distraction	Signing in to the chatroom	Playing with Beanies
Working out	Keeping a diary of how I feel	Forgive past mistakes
Going outside	Free acceptance of my condition	Watching trich videos on YouTube beckie0 <3
Rubicks cubes	Soft mascara that doesn't clump	Asking for what I want.
Wearing a hat	Getting physical with my partner	Going for a walk (free)
Eating bananas	Shaving my head! (extreme I know)	Reading trich blogs - trichsterknitster <3
Record keeping	My personal Trichnotherapy coach	Staying away from people who put me down
Stroking a pet	Pairing my socks while watching TV	Studying at the library rather than home
Wearing gloves	SkyTrichster's Trichster Tool Bag	Talking to other trichsters on the forums
Not being alone	Having my brows professionally shaped	Think about people who love me for who I am
Plenty of sleep	Spinner ring to fiddle with discretely	Eat sprouted seeds & stroke them on my lips
Playing good music and dancing or singing	Numbing cream on my eyebrows reduces my urges to pull them	Throwing away the tweezers or giving them to someone to hide
Crochet or knitting, tapestry or cross stitch	Stroking a soft paintbrush or makeup brush on my skin or lips	Covering mirrors in my house or putting positive statements on them
Thinking about an event I want to look good at	Writing down how many I pull and what happened just before I pulled	Cutting out sugar, glucose caffeine and popcorn helps me be pull free
Take a shower or run my head under the tap	Wearing clear lens glasses makes me realise when I go to touch my eyes	Covering my scalp with shampoo, lotion and hair conditioner (all mixed)
False fingernails makes gripping impossible	Getting a new hair cut, colour or style that I love and don't want to ruin	I only allow myself 30 mins of TV at a time. I can manage to stay pull free for 30 mins
Reading only in public - i.e. on a bench in a park.	making patterns with pins in a pin cushion, then pulling them out and starting over again.	Hand massage with oils: I don't want to get grease in my hair and it makes my fingers slippy!
Removing mascara with remover AS SOON as I get home	My best tip is to play games on a computer or phone it keeps you occupied and your fingers going	If I start picking at my mascara, I have to remove it immediately with lotion to stop me losing lashes
Getting up and doing something to take my mind off it	Claw thumb rings which are brilliant as when you put them on there is no way in the world you can pull	Hair Dryer: When my hair is freshly dyed, it is sleek and silky. No coarse bits for my hands to be attracted to.
Social networking like Facebook & Twitter	Using my head massager before bed seems to be helping me to have more peaceful sleeps and prevent pulling	Eating a pomegranate. It takes AGES and you can watch a whole film while picking at the seeds. Sunflower seeds also occupy the hands.
Getting up and moving about as soon as my hands go there	I keep my correspondence in a box by the television so I can write cheques, pay bills and write envelopes while watching.	Put a few pics of people with nice hair up in places I look at often so I can have something to aspire to
Writing down why I hate trich and why my life will be better without it	Painting my nails: I don't want to smudge it by pulling! I keep my nail polishes by the TV. Polishing my nails gives me time to refocus on something else and forget my urge
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