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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Trichotillomania comes to mind if she's pulling out her eyebrow hairs due to being anxious - the onset generally occurs from 8/9 to 13/14 years old. [/quote]

This is what I was thinking. I do this, and I wish I could stop. For me, it started around age 9, when the hormones started raging. [/quote]

This is what it is.  Please get her help to nip it in the bud or it could become a lifelong habit, not limited to her eyebrows.  It is extremely difficult to stop once the habit becomes entrenched.[/quote]

Oh for pete's sake... trichotillomania is when one pulls out one's hair compulsively, not giving oneself spontaneous eyebrow haircuts. OP, please don't panic about this. YOU know your child, none of us do. Are her grades ok? Her appetite? Friend group relatively stable? Is she expressing totally new anxieties or fears out of the blue? Sounds like totally normal 9-year old behavior to me - I shaved off half my eyebrows around age 10 or 11 because I had a vague impression that that's what ladies did. Your daughter is almost definitely doing the same kinds of experimenting. [/quote]

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