
Anonymous
3 years
Pulling Out Eyelashes
I’m a teenager who has been pulling my eyelashes since I was 4 y/o. I used to play or pull my eyelashes but I once discovered about plucking the eyelashes and I can’t stop doing that. Honestly, it is painful and satisfying at the same time. Unfortunately, it makes my eyelashes shortened and ugly. I also always accidentally poke my cornea. It’s either I do this for fun or my hands automatically do it and won’t stop. Should I take it seriously and go to the nearby clinic? Or there’s a way that I can do it by myself to stop this habit?

Dr Nur Syuhada binti Zulkifli,
3 years
Hello, thank you for your enquiry.
For your information, your symptoms or actions may because of habit, habit disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and others. It is rather common for human to develop certain habits subconsciously. You may try to control your action or habits by repetitive self-reminding, diverge your focus onto other subjects, replace the habits with some others such as exercise, drawing and so on.
You may share your problem with the people you trust to get their supports or refer this problem to your doctor for further advices and guidance.
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