stoic
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I have spent several years suffering from constant hair and skin pulling.
It happened every time I wasn't in public, which prompted me to spend as little time as possible at home.
Peating greatly improved my condition, but I still ended up pulling during the night, while half-asleep.
The situation got progressively worse until I decided to try NAC — 500mg in the morning and 500mg in the evening.
In less than a week, my urges were almost completely gone.
I then sort of forgot about the problem until recently, when the issue returned as part of a very stressful work-related routine.
Unfortunately, I had forgotten about how effective NAC had been for me and spent a few months trying to contain the problem with lotions and stress reduction — all to no avail.
Then I tried NAC again, again at the 1g dose, although this time from a different brand. And again, my urges were gone in less than a week and have been since.
So to everyone who suffers from compulsive hair pulling: try NAC. It might not work for everyone, but for some people it can be a life saver.
It's true that it's not peat-approved and probably not safe to take long-term (as all supplements), but the fact that a cheap supplement can completely stop the issue, if only temporarily, is pretty amazing; especially considering that most doctors would gladly put their patients on useless, dangerous, toxic SSRIs for this kind of issue.
I hope this can encourage other sufferers to stop relying on the medical complex, do their own research and take matters into their own hands. It really pays off.
It happened every time I wasn't in public, which prompted me to spend as little time as possible at home.
Peating greatly improved my condition, but I still ended up pulling during the night, while half-asleep.
The situation got progressively worse until I decided to try NAC — 500mg in the morning and 500mg in the evening.
In less than a week, my urges were almost completely gone.
I then sort of forgot about the problem until recently, when the issue returned as part of a very stressful work-related routine.
Unfortunately, I had forgotten about how effective NAC had been for me and spent a few months trying to contain the problem with lotions and stress reduction — all to no avail.
Then I tried NAC again, again at the 1g dose, although this time from a different brand. And again, my urges were gone in less than a week and have been since.
So to everyone who suffers from compulsive hair pulling: try NAC. It might not work for everyone, but for some people it can be a life saver.
It's true that it's not peat-approved and probably not safe to take long-term (as all supplements), but the fact that a cheap supplement can completely stop the issue, if only temporarily, is pretty amazing; especially considering that most doctors would gladly put their patients on useless, dangerous, toxic SSRIs for this kind of issue.
I hope this can encourage other sufferers to stop relying on the medical complex, do their own research and take matters into their own hands. It really pays off.
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