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my trich: your eyelashes are too thick, you need to pull them
me: bruh what eyelashes
Hey but it’s like. Okay if they don’t. If you’ve ripped out your eyebrows one too many times and they stop growing back you’re still a) a really cool person and b) very fucking pretty.
To be clear I have pulled out my eyebrows multiple times and will likely do so again and i am actually so attractive and cool even when I don’t have eyebrows thanks for coming to my ted talk
Ps this applies to other bfrbs as well. If you have scars from ripping your skin up you’re still hot sorry i dont make the rules
every so often I see posts from millennials about how they’ve permanently fucked up their eyebrows from over plucking, and I thank god that mine grew back perfectly intact after everything I put them through
❗️Body-focused repetitive behaviors❗️
Hi, I just wanted to say that if you're suffering from bfrb... you are not weird, gross, or ugly. You're beautiful! Even if you may have bald spots or scabs on your skin. It doesn't matter what you look like, the only thing that matters is that you try your best not to judge/ blame yourself too much, and surround yourself with good people and positivity❤️❤️
I know how it feels, and I understand you.
Some cookies and juice for u, lovelies🍪🍪🧃
A Google Form to collect as much information on Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors, in this context picking, pulling, chewing, or scratching the parts of the body. Only people who suffer from these can take the form. Emails aren't collected and I'm not a mental health professional just someone who deals with a BFRB. If you want me to make changes to the form then just ask.
What does it feel like to have smooth fingers? To have smooth nails, maybe even long ones? To be 8 years old and not have to hide your toes in shame during gym/P.E class because they're chewed and incomplete and ugly? To not be scolded and called gross when you don't even notice what you're doing, told that you'll just grow out of it?
To try everything you can think of to stop it. Gloves, nail polish (even the kind that's disgusting, because even that will be ripped away), everything. And to have nothing work.
What does it feel like to not have the nails of your little toes grow in two? To not have a flappy little extra nail that gets caught on everything and hurts you? To not sometimes be missing such a large amount of skin on your big toe that you can't walk without wrapping it in bandages?
To let your scabs heal normally, to not have them last for months and months and months because you just keep picking at them everytime, to not have open bleeding spots on your arms, to not know the way they crunch in your mouth.
To not suffer with infections; on your toes, your back, hardly ever being aware of them because they're just par for the course?
What does it feel like to look at the newly-healed skin on your big toe, and see anything other than a snack?
I don't know. I don't think i'll ever know.
I'm ngl it's kinda alienating to see other ppl w bfrbs (especially dermatophagia) always speak about it so negatively.
Like. I get it. It sucks. It's caused huge problems in my life, i'm not denying the harm and distress it can and has brought.
But i unironically love it too. I love the texture and the taste of my skin. I love tearing off my nails with my teeth. I play around and stim with them.
I've tried all sorts of things with my skin. I like when i bite off super big chunks off my toes and let them dry out bc they're really fun to eat after that.
Tring to smooth out my nails after biting a big chunk off is like a fun game. Exploring my fingers to find places the skin has grown back enough to be bitten off again is entertaining.
Idk. I just. I used to feel like a freak for biting myself, and then i found out i have BFRBs, but now i feel like a freak for not wanting to 'recover'.
,,,does human skin count as one of my safefoods, i wonder