I’m so glad that you posted this comment, I do the same thing, I stopped for like a year and then I thought about doing it again and I won’t stop scatching at my head. Maybe it’s due to anxiety. I really don’t know, but I’m glad I’m not alone.
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How do you stop? It seems one of the best ways is to first find ways to prevent dandruff. After that, find how to manage stress. And if you get particularly engrossed in reading, I have found I sometimes stop scratching. I'm seventeen but I've done this since about nine, having several years where I don't notice and others? Like now, that I've been constantly. But it's less about scratching for me. I try to actively watch the flakes fall, and see which look grandest- i.e., largest, flakiest, the most three D detail, the flattest, the solidest, the most transparent. I get disappointed by ones one mm by 1 mm or smaller. Before, I got scabs and things by I managed by hair better, so don't really have em anymore. I guess this is an OCD behavior that mostly results from a dandruff problem. I feel I'm losing precious hair and am worried, as well. I'm a girl.
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I have OCD and anxiety, so picking it out of others' hair (like a monkey) is satisfying to me.
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hey, i found the best way to deal with this is to use a hair brush, instead of using your fingers to scratch. you get the same feeling but your nails in your fingers can damage your scalp and hair. using a hair brush is less dangerous.
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Yes, danced constantly
Slight anxiety
Definitely, especially when I’m taking a test and don’t know something
Yes, it feels satisfying
Not sad, but I pick at it for a while
Yes, danced constantly
Slight anxiety
Definitely, especially when I’m taking a test and don’t know something
Yes, it feels satisfying
Not sad, but I pick at it for a while
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Bro I’ve been doing this for a while. I shame myself once in a while because I know it is gross, but it feels so satisfying. I do it when I stress over a test or when I think about it... I just thought I was really different
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I work at the Halfway House Otley Road near Shipley in west Yorkshire in England , great food freshly cooked by myself .
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19yo female. I used to make scabs on my head on purpose to pick them when I was little. Then I moved onto just scratching my scalp and eating it from under my nails. I distinctly remember one time I put fine grain sand in my hair just so I could pick it out. I think I used this as a coping mechanism, but never outgrew it. Now I usually just rake my nails on my scalp in small sections to find what I call "seeds". I guess its the follicle that comes off in a tiny ball and I grind it in my front teeth. I do it out of boredom and in times of stress. I had no idea that it was a common thing and that it has a name. I havent told friends or family, but my parents have noticed it before and asked me about it. The only reason I am posting is so if someone comes along with the same guilty pleasure, then maybe they wont feel so isolated. Xx
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I work as a chef at the Halfway House, Otley Road in Baildon near Bradford in England, I shake my dandruff into customers food, nothing is better than knowing that part of me as been eaten by others, I know it is only my dead skin from my scalp but I get a buzz, if anyone on here fancies visiting the pub I work at and trying my food with my added "salt" please feel free.
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have enjoyed a lifetime of scratching and watching flakes gather up..hoping to find the "big one" someday....so cool to know Im not alone
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OMG I'm so glad I'm not alone. I've always done this for years !!! Since I was a little girl, I used to pick at my mom's scalp, sometimes at mine, and now I pick at my boyfriends. Its incredibly gratifying, but sometimes I hurt him. I feel bad, so I'll stop but then he likes it too, so he asks me to do it haha it's so gross. But I love doing it
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Haha yes, I pick at my boyfriend's scalp, because he enjoys it ( I have no idea why) and I'm embarrassed to say, but when I find a spot with a lot of dandruff I get a tiny bit of an adrenaline rush, like I get a little bit tingly in my fingers, and it makes me really want to scratch it.
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Lol I did used to do this, and I did it once to my mother when I was little, she was so pissed. But I didn't know how to explain that I just wanted to pick the salt out of her scalp because she didn't have dandruff to pick
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