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Deep breathing for 30 seconds |
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Practise mindfulness to be aware of my hands |
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Phoning my buddy |
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Being involved and active |
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Sorting my sewing box while watching TV |
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Plasters on my fingertips |
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Silly Putty, slime or goo |
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Going out somewhere public |
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Keeping a diary of how I feel |
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Free acceptance of my condition |
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Watching trich videos on YouTube beckie0 <3 |
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Soft mascara that doesn't clump |
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Getting physical with my partner |
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Shaving my head! (extreme I know) |
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My personal Trichnotherapy coach |
Staying away from people who put me down |
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Pairing my socks while watching TV |
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Studying at the library rather than home |
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Talking to other trichsters on the forums |
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Having my brows professionally shaped |
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Think about people who love me for who I am |
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Spinner ring to fiddle with discretely |
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Eat sprouted seeds & stroke them on my lips |
Playing good music and dancing or singing |
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Numbing cream on my eyebrows reduces my urges to pull them |
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Throwing away the tweezers or giving them to someone to hide |
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Crochet or knitting, tapestry or cross stitch |
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Stroking a soft paintbrush or makeup brush on my skin or lips |
Covering mirrors in my house or putting positive statements on them |
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Thinking about an event I want to look good at |
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Writing down how many I pull and what happened just before I pulled |
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Cutting out sugar, glucose caffeine and popcorn helps me be pull free |
Take a shower or run my head under the tap |
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Wearing clear lens glasses makes me realise when I go to touch my eyes |
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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 |
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Reading only in public - i.e. on a bench in a park. |
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making patterns with pins in a pin cushion, then pulling them out and starting over again. |
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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 |
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My best tip is to play games on a computer or phone it keeps you occupied and your fingers going |
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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 |
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Claw thumb rings which are brilliant as when you put them on there is no way in the world you can pull |
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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
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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 |
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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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