u/Melodic_Journalist75

My hair is on my mind almost 24/7; it's stressing me to the point of panic attacks sometimes. It's been a year since I grew my hair back after a big chop, and I've been in immense fear of having to cut it again or of damaging it so it won't grow. I'm constantly looking at it in the mirror, and if it looks wrong to me or a bit frizzy, I just have to brush it until it's straight, or else my heart races and I can't do anything at all. And the constant brushing makes me anxious that I'm damaging it, so I stress more. I can't even tie it up or put it in a bun because I have to look at it, I have to know it's here with me. I feel like I'm going insane. I spend hours every day just looking at my hair, fixing it, but no amount of fixing or touching can ever satisfy me, only making me more anxious, scared about hair breakage or split ends ( that I didn't even have?), yet I can't stop myself from doing all of this.