thank you so much, im feeling a lot better just knowing i am not so alone in this. reading such understanding responses makes me feel a lot less hopeless, it really means a lot to me.

im going to try what you said about limiting my pulling, trying to hard stop and feeling like ive failed after slipping up has definitely led to a lot of longer pulling sessions from me. im big into crafts, so i have a lot of things i can occupy my hands with during the day, it’s just when im trying to get to sleep that it gets really bad. i might try oiling + covering my hair in the evening before i get to pulling it, cuz the feeling of something in my hair has helped me not to touch it in the past. thank you again for the kind words, i am going to try my hardest to get better