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milf.lover

Updated 1y ago

Struggling with Trichotillomania: Seeking Advice

I'm 6 days pull free but it's so hard. How do you stop? Is there medicine you can take?

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AmberSpark

2y

Luvox (generic name Fluvoxamine) is used for OCD. I've heard of some success with it in the TTM community.
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Heatherbee

2y

I take fluvoxamine and I love it for anxiety. It makes a world of a difference. But it doesn't actually help with the hair pulling for me, even if I up the dose. I've tried a lot of medications and the only medication I've tried that helps with the trichotillomania is mirtazapine. It took me from about 100 hairs per day down to zero today and one yesterday.
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eee2342

2y

I take luvox for my OCD also but all it does is make me so angry. All I do is yell at my boyfriend about the small things that he is OCD about because it interferes with my OCD.
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Heatherbee

2y

man I'm sorry, you might want to ask to try a different medication. There are other ones for OCD if that one's not really helping. Sometimes you have to try a few before you find one you like.
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trocket13

2y

not medicine but i know that there are certain kinds of therapies that can help like habit reversal therapy

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