Comments on: Danger! Eating Hair Can Kill You

By: gridlock

gridlock — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:39:42 +0000

Nature has a way of weeding out the insane and stupid.
The cruelest action is to save these creatures from their own self-destruction motivations.
Oh and the proper common word is Bezoar (you might have heard it from the Harry Potter distraction dreck series).

By: Can't undo what's done

Can't undo what's done — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:41:22 +0000

Well, I am also a hair addict. I am 18 and I have been through anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. I have never seen my nails grow over my fingertips, and I have an addiction to pulling my hair and biting the tips of it. Before I suffered from a low self-esteem, which was caused by mother’s treatment. After family problems ceased I kept doing this. It is weird because I am very social, in a few days I’ll be leaving home to go study at a top-knotch university, and well I consider myself good looking, so I do not know why I keep doing this. I would like to add that I am a very nervous person and knowing that I can’t puke all of the little pieces of hair that have already gotten into my system is nerveracking and such nerves make me pull my hair even more.

By: wowtrichsad:(

wowtrichsad:( — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:29:28 +0000

I have this as well….I didn’t do it as a child but it all started after my pareants got a divorce…idk I seen a physc but he didn’t help at all!!!! It was a waste of money….I’ve been doing it for about 2-3 years or so….I hope we all find a cure someday! <3 all my trich bros and sistas

By: Kas

Kas — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:49:48 +0000

While I could agree that eating hair is similar to smoking in the sense that there is an urge to do something that you may not want / shouldn’t do. I have to say that you can’t really compare the difficulty of quitting either one as being similar or different. It is better compared to nail biting addiction, I smoke and compulsively bite my nails. The difference is that if I decide that I won’t bite my nails it is hard, when I want to do it I think about it and have to work very hard to distract myself from it I sometimes don’t notice until I have already done it. When I try to quit smoking (a chemical addiction not mental compulsion) when I have a nicotine craving my blood pressure goes way up, I sweat, and I get very irritated. Not the keep to myself kind of irritated the kind where you try extremely hard to control yourself but end up acting like a butt head to people despite the restraint. And when you smoke a cigarette it is very deliberate unlike nail biting, when I have a cigarette I feel the nicotine craving physically then deliberately satisfy it.

By: Hair addict

Hair addict — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:31:27 +0000

And i dn wanna go to the dr its embaressing;/