Hair pulling to cope with stress?

[Rexie </3]

I pull my hair out a lot. Not as much from my scalp, though i do pull out strands some times, but mainly eye lashes, brows and arm hair. The eye brows one is funny cause i have a unibrow and i was undergoing a lot of stress this one time so i randomly started pulling out my unibrow and now I just do it subconsciously (as ridiculous as this sounds it is true). The arm hair one is far more serious as there are several huge bare patches on my arms cause of this and my skin is sensitive so this causes quite a bit of irritation. Sometimes, it even gets pretty painful.

It started as a coping mechanism, but now i do it without really thinking. Though, the hair pulling gets more intense when i'm having a mental breakdown or i am going through something very stressful. I have not really researched about it but is this unusual and am i stupid for having such a silly way to deal with stress?

 

[Wojaczek]

i have ripped out my eye lashes and still do sometimes idk but it feels good in a weird way

 

[Rexie </3]

i have ripped out my eye lashes and still do sometimes idk but it feels good in a weird way

It's the same for me too, though honestly sometimes for me that is followed by feeling shame especially if I've pulled out a huge chunk of hair.

 

[Wojaczek]

It's the same for me too, though honestly sometimes for me that is followed by feeling shame especially if I've pulled out a huge chunk of hair.

yeah it can look pretty stupid lol