Dear Dina:

Thinking about it further, this anxiety symptom of pulling hair out is similar to my symptoms of TICS (Tourette Syndrome) and the COMPULSIONS of OCD, both of which I have a long, long history with. If you would like, Dina, to explore further here with me, this symptom of yours, how it operates, how it feels, what is behind it and following it … please let me know and we can go back and forth about it.

Of course it is best that you attend psychotherapy with a competent, experienced, caring, hard working and dedicated psychotherapist. I am not a psychotherapist. So what I am offering is on a I help you-you help me context. If we did communicate about fear and its symptom here, we would have to be gentle as fear is most powerful. We will have to do it in small portions so not to be overwhelmed and in our own pace.

anita

* Nan, same offer is open to you. And by the way, I watched most of The Bridges of Madison County again, taking notes, and the theme of fear goes through the movie from the beginning! This is an idea you can take or not, start a Bridges of Madison County thread.