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I've never done this before..but there was this girl in my Spanish 2 class and she was sitting next to me, and i noticed that she started pulling pieces of her hair out and she'd look at them then put it in her mouth. She never took em out afterwards, it was gross. Is that normal? Cause i don't find it normal..
It is a common form of OCD in which a person pulls out his/her hair and often times will eat it. This girl in your class needs to talk to someone about this immediately because it will all build up in her digestive system and cause life threatening health problems. You should speak to a teacher about her hair eating and hopefully the teacher will tell her parents and her parents will get her help.
it is not normal but it does have a name. It is all part of an impulse control disorder called Tricotillophagia, that is the hair eating part. It is more rare habit but part of the disorder that affects 1% of people, mostly more obvious in women, called Trichotillomania.
It is VERY important you help this girl get help. The reason is that it usually affects people most as they are teenagers, as hormones change in their bodies. If she can get help on healing from this disorder at the teen years she can have some hope of not being affected with it for the rest of her life.
It is basically a type of addiction. Actually similar to OCD but slightly different. Impulse control disorders are slightly different. The other well known Impulse control disorders that you hear about are Kleptomania, Pyromania, and Gambling Addiction.
Ok, go do the best thing and be genuinely concerned by this behavior and privately but persistently help her get help.