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Originally Posted by Xnguela
I pluck rather compulsively... can't help it. In 6th grade, my mother informed me I had a unibrow and people might talk, so I've been paranoid ever since. Actually, that became a really fucked up compulsion of mine, as then for a while I'd pluck parts of my eyelashes, and then I accidently plucked them off, and I plucked the hair on my knuckles, and anywhere else I thought was too small to shave but needed less hair...
I know. Weird, right? Oh well! I hear Dr. Phil's going to be doing a show about teens who compulsively get rid of their own hair... so maybe it's not that unheard of, after all!
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This is an actual thing. I did a fair amount of research on it when I was in high school- it's called
trichotillomania.