Hair Pulling Disorder (2015 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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December 21, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | So Paulette, you have anxiety. |
| 0:02.0 | Uh, yeah, I do. |
| 0:04.0 | And do you ever pull your hair as a way of coping with your anxiety? |
| 0:07.5 | You bite your nails. |
| 0:08.5 | I bite my nails, I shake my leg. |
| 0:10.5 | I bite my own tongue like chew my tongue it's so gross and weird I don't know why |
| 0:17.2 | Isn't that gross you're blushing as you say I know because I it's weird to talk about how weird you are and tell people. |
| 0:23.1 | You're not telling anyone, you're just telling me. |
| 0:24.5 | Okay. |
| 0:25.7 | You and 40,000 people. |
| 0:28.8 | Can you imagine pulling your hair |
| 0:30.9 | in a similar way of biting your nails? |
| 0:32.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.5 | Well, I wanted to talk about that today |
| 0:35.0 | because a patron actually wrote in |
| 0:36.5 | and asked us to talk about it. |
| 0:38.4 | It's interesting that you think about anxiety |
| 0:40.8 | and all the way that it manifests itself, and people, my friends and my sister now is moving here and she was |
| 0:47.4 | just here and she's like it was up biting your nails grosso and I was like oh |
| 0:50.8 | God this is gonna be but I can't stop but it's so weird like why do I put my nail in my mouth and peel it off why do I why is that that's not any less weird it's like |
| 1:01.6 | destroying a part of your body destroying a part of your body, pulling a part of your body off itself. |
| 1:06.0 | Right. Well, let's get into that. Let's talk about it. And I want to explore possible reasons why you and other people might do that. |
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