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Me definitely me. But I think it's two things that contribute to this:

1. These friggin layers ugh!!!

2. Looking at all the beautiful heads on here with blunt cut mb/wsl hair...
 
I'm hair-exic too. :-(
I don't even like to look at it, and I think it's mostly because I thought I would be WL months ago.
After this month's length check I'm getting braids and leaving them in for at least 6 months (not the same set of braids).
 
I feel like my hair hasn't grown since my BC in August.

It looks a little bigger - but I feel like it's not any longer. :wallbash:
 
yea i suffer bad from this man. that's probably why i am always obsessing over my ends for length retention. lol @ the solange pic
 
Me too! I am approaching bsb and I feel like sl. I do think after a year of growing, I should be mbl (6 full inches), but I'll just keep plugging on with you all. We'll get there by n by.
 
OMG! I have this disorder really really badly. I feel like i am ear length, and i always think my fro looks anemic and could be bigger or more lush. I reach behind and pull my hair ALL THE TIME and try to figure out if its ending on a lower place on my back. On a good day, I will feel like I am SL, despite my measurement consistantly coming out to APL.

I feel as though my hair is just never growing fast enough, even though I have had colorist and stylist even ask me what I eat because they think my hair grows at an above average rate. The other night I went out to an old hangout of mine and several people did a double take because i have "so much more hair" than last year. A few weeks back I looked at my school ID picture, and realize the photo was taken a year ago, and my hair is undeniably longer now, but somehow I still feel like my hair is not growing fast enough, and that its just not long enough to be acceptable.

THEN when i am riding the subway or on the street, i STARE at everyones hair-- white black asian whatever, curly straight, and just look at their length, luster, health, thickness-- you name it. can we say creeper? On the other hand. I noticed that not a lot of women have hair longer than BSB, and most women are APL, putting me in the normal range, rather than the "short" range.

There's a part of me that knows I am being crazy, and my hair grows quickly and is so thick I could share with two other people and still be normal, but my mind just keeps going back to this psychotic inadequacy!

I am just plain old hair greedy. I just want more hair. There isn't even room on my head for more, and its growing just fine, but i want more anyway. smh
 
its funny, now that i gave myself a mini trim, i dont feel this way anymore. o/T but i realize that i hate wearing my hair out because its all over the place and it snags on zippers, clothes, other people, i was about to smack this B the other day when she snaged my hair by accident,i was heated. ima do buns this month. cant have no more snagging cuasing more feelings of anerexia.
 
boingboing said:
LMAO!!! Omg do we need to do a PSA on this hair disease or something? Lol

But I cannot lie I think I could be ankle length and still feel like its ear length.

Seeing so many long lush heads of hair can give you a "hair complex" on here!
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So true at the bolded. I thought I was the only one!
 
All I know is my ear length hair just won't grow I am so sad! HUH! :nono:
I freak out everytime I comb my hair and one strand comes out I am like oh boy back to eyebrow length!

Yes I got it bad!
 
Oh man. I really do suffer from hair anorexia... or hair dysmorphia as a mostly white board calls it. (They have it too!)

I flat ironed yesterday for a length check. Dh was like :shocked: Your hair is SO LONG!!!!! I was like :perplexed Whose hair are you looking at? B/c I just don't see it.

I actually felt kinda depressed about the state of my hair and had to bun it and put it away so I wouldn't be sad over how "short" it is :drunk: :drunk: :drunk:
 
I love this thread. I
didn't realize that I was Hair-rexic until I FINALLY made APL in December after transitioning & bc'ing in 2008. I thought I would be excited and at least somewhat satisfied. The day when I length-checked I took the picture and was like "so..." Then I thought, "now where's BSL, because this is basically neck length." :nono:

I'm approaching BSL now, and I can already tell that I'm going to think my hair is still too short when I get there. It's a really weird phenomenon. I'm glad I'm not alone.
 
I have this problem bad too, and i get upset that im depressed and frustrated over smthg as small as hair. its mostly b/c so many pple in NYC, especially the other races, have long lush hair and i see them pass me by EVERYDAY while i bun..

I also feel like my hair is super thin... my bffs hair just grows and grows into a big triangle shaped fan, getting thicker and wider, while mine grows into the opposite v shape. blunt ends kept me at APL for years upon years, so i've given up the dream lol
 
ChocoKitty said:
I'm there... I'm tired of paying so much attention to it. So I'm going to wear it blow dryer stretched and in curly braidout ponytails for a while... I may not straighten it until June for a length check and possible trim.
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This is where I'm at. I haven't worn my hair loose in about 3 months so I can ignore it. I think I'm armpit (who knows these days lol), but feel like chin length.
 
Shrinkage is definitely contributing to my Hair-rexia. It feels neck length curly. And even when I straighten it, it only seems like my hair is APL.

I do think looking at all the lovely hair on this site makes me biased against my own hair.
 
I dont feel my hair would be long until its at least mid-back, I feel my hair is super short right now I'm full shoulder length last time I straightend
 
Well I know I've got it bad, cuase I'll look @ other people with APL thick long hair and think OOOH their hair is long, but my near WL hair I think isn't long enough. Yeah I'm a hairnorexic, so where's the 12-step detox? :lol:
 
Yeah, I know what you mean OP. I'm about 3/4 of an inch from BSB and I feel shoulder length. I almost had a complete meltdown last week when SO said he liked long hair (implying that I didn't) to me over the phone. All I could think was I'm trying to make it long, but then just the other day when I wore my rollerset to see him he was like "OOOOO look that girl got long hair." I think he was just saying something to say it. Both his mom and sister have BSL and WSL hair. But honestly I think its just my hairrexia coming in to play. I didn't even say thank you to my SO for the complement I got it bad.
 
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I suffer hair-rexia in the sense of my thickness. I have really really fine hair, but in the self relaxing thread some people were saying it looked thick and when I went to a salon the lady said my hair was thick. I'm like ya'll must be talking about someone else's head. To me I have the thinnest head of hair and I hate it!
 
::raises hand::: I suffer from this as well... whenever I look at my hair it's just never long enough
 
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