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PULLING MY HAIR OUT!

Bethany Stewart, 21, from Inverclyde, Scotland

Pulling out single strands from my head, I sat comfortably on the sofa.

For as long as I could remember, I’d pick at my hair every single day.

Most of the time, I didn’t even realise that I had been doing it.

Tracing my fingers along the gaps in my long, thin hair, I wish I could have controlled it. ‘Stop pulling it out,’ my twin sister Hollie, 21, and brother John, 25, would nag constantly.

With long, thick hair, Hollie struggled to understand me.

‘I can’t help it,’ I’d remind her.

My mum Tracey, 45, and dad Robert, 52, told me that when I was younger, I only ever did it now and again – not all the time.

I’d spot plenty of patches

So, nobody really

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