Chaetophobia is a rare phobia which causes an irrational, abnormal and persistent fear of hair. The word is derived from Greek khaite which means ‘loose flowing hair’ and phobos meaning aversion or fear. Other names used for the phobia include Trichopathophobia where tricho is Greek for hair and patho for disease. Thus Trichopathophobia means extreme “fear of hair disease” which causes a person to be afraid of going bald or developing scalp or hair issues.
Another name for the fear of hair is Trichophobia which is the general fear of “loose hairs” seen on clothes, furniture, floor etc. Hypertrichophobia is the persistent and constant fear of hair and is more closely related to Chaetophobia.
While a vast majority of the population spends a lot of money and time in grooming and looking after their hair, Chaetophobic individuals want to have nothing to do with hair. Most are afraid of other people’s hair and, in some cases, even animal hair. Many Chaetophobes try to avoid people with thick, dense and curly or Afro style hair. Still others are only afraid of loose, stray hair and avoid places like barber shops or salons where there is greater possibility of encountering hair on floor. The phobics literally have a full blown panic attack at the sight of hair- often believing that they are “going to be harmed by it”. Many realize that their phobia is irrational; however they are completely unable to control it.
Some people do not let other people touch their hair (or they avoid touching other people’s hair) fearing that this might cause one to go bald. Still other phobics are known to panic at the sight white or grey hair, or even their own body hair.
Causes of Chaetophobia
Chaetophobic individuals believe “hair to be dirty”. Often the condition is related to the fear of germs; one feels that hair might cause them to get sick if they come in contact with it. Hair also tends to have oil, dandruff, lice, or sometimes fungal infections. This leads people with anxious mindsets to feel revolted or disgusted by it.
Hair loss could also trigger fear of hair phobia in men or women who are afraid of growing bald.
Other causes of Chaetophobia include a negative or traumatic incidence in one’s childhood involving a hairy person. The brain develops a mechanism of protecting itself by creating a conditioned response each time the phobic encounters a hairy person.
Often people suffering from skin conditions like seborrheic dermatitis may develop this phobia as their condition may lead to dandruff, itchiness of the scalp and flaking etc.
People, who are obsessed with hygiene and cleanliness, often bordering on obsessive compulsive disorder, are also more likely to suffer from Chaetophobia. They feel extreme disgust at seeing hair in unlikely places like food, clothing and so on.
Symptoms of fear of hair phobia
Chaetophobic individuals display various symptoms depending on the level of their phobia. However, all of them experience a range of emotional and physical symptoms which are listed below:
- Shivering, trembling at the sight of hair
- Feeling nauseated, queasy or suffering from various gastrointestinal conditions like diarrhea, cramps, vomiting etc.
- Many think about hair all the time- they may feel detached from reality, or feel as if they are going crazy.
- Some show avoidance behavior- avoiding people with lot of hair, or avoiding salons, barber shops etc. Often they refuse to cut or trim their hair for months, or might prevent others from touching their hair.
- Some tend to clean obsessively to ensure there is no hair lying around.
- Some are known to experience a full blown panic attack- accelerated heartbeat, rapid breathing, dizziness, etc.
Thus, it is evident that persons suffering from the fear of hair tend to face many difficulties in day-to-day life.
Treatment of fear of hair
Chaetophobia is a highly treatable phobia; the best way of overcoming it is through a combination of drugs and psychotherapy. Talking about one’s fear or revulsion about hair is also a proven method of overcoming the phobia.
Depending on the severity of the phobia, the therapist might prescribe anti-anxiety medications. However, these have some side-effects including drowsiness, etc. Hence, their long term use is strictly prohibited.
NLP or neuro linguistic programming is an effective remedy for treating Chaetophobia. This therapy was developed by Dr. John Grinder and Dr. Richard Brandler. It involves asking the phobic to describe the first event/memory which led to the phobia. S/he is then asked to “float out of the body” and dissociate oneself with the memory. S/he is made to believe that their older self is ‘watching a movie’ of their younger self experiencing the trauma but going on to a safer place where there is no fear. This reprogramming and dissociation therapy helps the phobic see new perspectives so that the nervous system no longer creates a “flight or fight” response.
Other than NLP, hypnotherapy, relaxation and self help techniques like Yoga and meditation can also help one overcome Chaetophobia.
I’ve never been seen by an MD, nor have I been diagnosed with Chaetophobia. However, my fear of hair is real. I’m not the type to have a crazy panic attack at the sight of it and I’ve never avoided a barber shop. Though, seeing it makes me squeamish and makes my stomach turn. I get goosebumps when I see it and kind of freak out when it’s loose on me. I don’t mind attached hair, but I won’t touch it unless it’s my child’s or my husband’s. A lot of my own hair ends up in the shower drain, but my husband is always the one who has to get it up because I can’t stand to touch it. It grosses me out. I’m honestly not worried about getting a disease, but I am fully aware of how gross it is. Writing this honestly kind of freaks me out. When I have to come in contact with loose hair, I have to use a tissue to pick it up with. Just, ew. I really don’t like talking about how gross it is. That’s how gross it is.
I have never been to a dr about it. I’m looking this up because I have an extreme fear of hair! My daughter cleans out my hairbrush for me! You should see the look on my face when I brush my own hair. It’s long and it gets tangled around my fingers and I want to scream. Yes! I use a lot of tissue to get it off of my fingers. If I didn’t love my long hair I would cut it just so I don’t have to touch it. I am glad to know there are others out there with this phobia!
I’m not entirely sure if this is what I’ve got, but I just spent ten minutes trying to remove hair out of my drain – it’s gotten so bad I can’t take a shower without my feet having a bath, so there was really no avoiding it – and I feels like I’m going to vomit because I can’t stand shed hair at all. It’s gotten to where I can’t even shower more than three times per two weeks because I just don’t want to be near the loose hair I’ve shed in the shower. It’s not a fear, however, my relationship with shed hair is something of what you would feel for someone you used to date who’s now going out with an unintelligent nose-picker, or what you would feel for a carton of milk after taking a sip and finding out that it’s gone a bit rancid. I don’t feel like it’s unclean, really, as I know it’s only hair and it’s in the shower so it’s obviously very clean; it’s just that it’s nasty and I don’t like it at all.
The oddest part of this is that I don’t care at all about hair that’s still on people. I absolutely love running my fingers through people’s hair and having others play with mine. I’m even fine with body hair. But the moment it’s no longer attached to a living thing, it just becomes this other presence which makes everything all icky and hairy and ugh.
So what does this mean I’ve got, if it’s not really so much a phobia as a profound sense of disgust?
This is exactly how I feel about it, and after the anxiety attack today, I am finally confident enough to call it a phobia.
Someone left a clump of hair and who knows what on the edge of the bath today. I assume it was from the drain… But as soon as I saw it and knew what it was, I started gagging, heaving, and bawling…
Worst part is… It’s still sitting there… I can’t do anything about it without puking.
I’m the same with attached hair, too! I am fine touching it… Not as much when it’s wet and no facial or any other hair near my mouth, but it doesn’t freak me out or make me sick. I can get my haircut and everything… Fine there. I actually keep my hair short so I don’t have to deal with my own shedding as much. Lol
I feel the same way. It’s not a fear, it’s a disgust. I don’t mind hair on people but I have a horrible disgust with stray hairs – anyone else’s but mine though. It’s the same thing with dust, I just can’t stand it and I have horrible thoughts about it like it being in my mouth or food and I hate it it’s horrible!!
May anybody advise any useful approach to treat this disorder? The problem: my son-in-law can’t stand my cat. Actually, he likes the cat but has a bizarre fear of the cat’s shed hair. If hair is still ‘attached to the cat’ – it doesn’t bother him. But he starts cleaning everything around like a maniac if he finds on his clothes a few hair shed by my Blackie. And his father is the same. What to do?! Please help!
Man this article hit my problem right on the head, I vacuum my home 3-5 times a day to make sure theres no hair and I check my clothes thoroughly to make sure it has no hair. Although I hate all loose hair, grey and white hair is the worst, Ive been suffering from this problem for too long I need help!
I’m the same as the chain of posts earlier that described it as “disgust” rather than “fear,” gagging and being nauseous at the sight of loose hair, and being okay with hair that’s attached to a head. I just discovered something bizarre that’s helped me a ton: dying my hair!
I got my hair dyed bright green because I was going to meet a bunch of internet friends, and thought “look for the girl with green hair” would make it easy to find me. But since then, it’s been so much easier to deal with my hair! Suddenly I don’t mind wet loose hairs sticking to me when I shower, getting them twisted around my fingers, picking them out of my brush, etc., just because it’s bright green. Psychologically, it now seems less like “hair” and more like plastic Easter basket grass or tinsel. I never would have guessed!
For those who aren’t in a job or social situation where it would be inappropriate, I definitely recommend getting your hair dyed a fantasy color—green, purple, pink, etc.—to see if that helps.
It reminds me of snakes, and if it falls down the back of my shirt I’m afraid it will make me itch
My phobia is strictly body hair-related, or hair so thick that it has the appearance of body hair (such as beards). This also includes head hair.
Although, I don’t avoid barber shops or salons. Body hair just makes a person appear sweaty and nasty to me.
Whenever seeing an extremely hairy person, my mind automatically thinks “body odor” and the person looks slimy to me. Often around a hairy person I would hold my breath until I or the other person simply left the room.
I honestly never knew this was actually a thing. Ever since I was a kid I’ve been extremely disgusted by loose detached human hairs, especially if they’re in clumps, wet or near my food. I’ve had so much anxiety in some instances that I’ve cried and vomited. People think I’m joking and they think it’s funny. I know it’s weird but I’m dead serious when I react.
I hate washing my hair, I hate bathrooms and refuse to shower in anyone elses bathroom other than my own. It’s annoying because hair is something I can’t escape, will I ever get over it??
To be honest, I don’t know why people are afraid of hair. Not only am I not disgusted by loose hair, I actually really like playing with it. And when my classmates see me playing with my loose hair, they just look disgusted and I never know why. Which is why I googled up why people are disgusted by loose hair so much.
Dead hair is revolting! How do you live?
“Many realize that their phobia is irrational; however they are completely unable to control it.” Some people are stricken with irrational fears they have no control over. There doesn’t have to be why, necessarily.
i just get so disgusted and irritated when wet loose hair is on me after a shower! i want to vomit
Same here, if it’s on me, or my sponge or lands on me I feel like this. In some cases I haven’t brushed or washed my hair for weeks. I haven’t had it cut for a year
I felt like it was coming out of me if i rubbed a certain area and thought it returned into my body. Lost a few family members because they laughed at me and called me crazy. Ended a 8 year relationship cause i thought i was crazy! I had just gotten out of 6 months intensive outpatient therapy. Started counseling last week, scared of taking meds because i have had addiction issues. I have stuffed feelings sense childhood! Like opening a can of worms and thrown back into a bad environment. Im doing better now in a better environment but it hurts so much to lose people you love that you reached out for help to and they laughed at you. So hurt, phobia came first when my mom went into a nursing home.
I get extremely anxious about loose hair, especially seeing loose hair in clumps like as in the drain of the bathtub. That is the absolute worst. I have long dark brown hair and for me it is horrible taking a shower because I literally am afraid to see any loose hair in the drain. I actually need to have my mom every week take it out of the drain because I am too grossed out to look at it and get it out myself.
My big fear comes in at the fact that one day I will have to do this on my own when there is no one else to do it for me and I am terrified of being so disgusted by the hair that I don’t want to have to do it. Is there any way that I can clean the drain out and not be so grossed out by it or not have to see it as much?
Tried to read the comments, but it was making me want to gag and vomit. Ever since a little kid, I couldn’t stand hair as it would fall on my arm or something. Seeing hair on my clothing and seeing hair in the bathroom sink in the shower is just gross. Cleaning out my hairbrush is the most terrifying experience having to touch it and makes me gag. I really should have won an award this year when I had snaked my bathroom sink drain. That was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever had to do snaking that drain. I won’t describe what came out of the drain, because I’m sure that would make you want to vomit. I can’t stand seeing hair on other people’s clothes. When hair falls on my arm I just shiver from head to toe, it’s gross. Hair near my food or in my food ruins me for the rest of the meal and a couple days later I still can’t get that image out of my head. I can’t stand American cooking shows, they need their hair up in hair nets and hats. I don’t know how they can do cooking shows with their hair completely down, gross! I’m a professional chef and I’m very meticulous to make sure my hair is up and nothing’s peeking out. The ex would shave and leave a pile of his hair on the floor in the bathroom, yuk, so disturbing. I can’t stand behind people in church who have hair all over their clothing. One lady had hair all over the back of her shirt, I had to get up and leave and take a washroom break and do my best not to make eye contact with it or gag when I got back. And when I put the hair from my hairbrush in the garbage can, I have to cover it so I don’t make eye contact with it afterwards.
I’m there with you. I hate all body hair, it makes me sick. It’s so gross I get nauseous just thinking about it.
I thought I was the only one who hated stray hairs in my shirt, arm, bed or wherever they always fall out. As if it almost hurts my skin for a stray hair to touch it.
You’re telling my story. The worst for me is when hair gets woven into my clothing. I gag if I have to pull hairs out of the inside of my clothing ESPECIALLY if I’m wearing it. I’ve thrown out so many hoodies and fleece jackets. Decided yesterday the fleece sheets need to go when I woke up with loose hair stuck all on my pillowcase. I shudder when loose hairs slide down my back in the shower and I’ve experienced your personal hell with the shower drains more than once. Always makes me vomit. Sadly I’m a single mom of 3 long haired daughters. My drains are a nightmare. I’m thinking about therapy, it’s getting so bad.
My boyfriend who has this I think. He doesn’t like hair balls. He doesn’t like the hair on my hair bands. I have to throw them out. We were both Corpsman (medical) and he has this and throw up bothers him. Just crazy cause we have been around blood and much worse.
My boyfriend who has this I think. He doesn’t like hair balls. He doesn’t like the hair on my hair bands. I have to throw them out. We were both Corpsman (medical) and he has this and throw up bothers him. Just crazy cause we have been around blood and much worse.
I’m not afraid of hair but more disgusted by body hair when I see it on counter tops, it makes me gag and I need tissues to wipe it off. My husband has so many body hairs now and I’m so grossed out by it, especially when he trims his body hair in the bathroom and never really clean it completely. Also I became very disgusted with dog hairs. I can’t stand it anymore, I want to cry, but I would brake my daughters heart giving that dog away. When I see my husband’s socks with all those dog hairs on it I want to vomit. I’m getting desperate. I might have to talk to my doc about this.
I really get this – I’d love to have a dog but I couldn’t cope with the hair.
My fear is worst though of *sprouting* hair. It makes me want to cry just thinking about it. I also fear sprouting vegetables and every newly growing grass. I broke up from a partner in part because I was so scared of the beard he was growing that I was mean to him. I really struggle with talking to men with beards. Writing this down it seems crazy but the fear is real!
I do have an anxiety disorder and addiction issues as well, but I’m in recovery from the addictions. I wish I could recover from this fear.
Hi Marlene
I hear you and hope things have improved.
I have cleaning OCD, and it’s very hard for me to tolerate another human’s hair on me or my belongings. I hate it and have to clean or disinfect it.
In fact, I spent like 20 min washing my left hand just because I felt so grossed out by accidentally touching a strand of someone’s hair that had attached itself to my newly washed shorts.. yuk. Convincing strangers/housemates about the need to be clean (or checking there is no hair on their clothing before putting it into the washer etc.) is a tall order these days (even now, most people barely if at all wash their hands), most people just don’t care at all.
This is just my 2 cents.
It’s kind of funny to think that I actually chose this phobia for an ELA assignment just because I love my hair. So, do any of you get disgusted at looking at other people’s hair? Or are you ok at looking at that? Why is it that some people are afraid or disgusted at loose hair and not on someone’s head? Do some of you get disgusted or afraid? I would like to get answers on these if possible, but if not it’s ok. You guys will get over it soon.
I’m okay with the hairs being on mine or someone else’s head. It’s when they are loose off of the person at all. Like in a room on a floor, stepping on hair in the bathroom after I get out of the shower, my own hair falling out as I shower and it is sliding on me. All of these things freak me out and make showering difficult (especially at other peoples houses or on vacation) because your hair naturally falls out. Now with all of that being said, I’m not sure why I’m this way and came to the internet to see if I can find answers for myself. Also, be careful in your word choices. “You guys will get over it soon” seems to be very insensitive. It may seem small and minor to you, but for me, it’s a very big and real thing that I deal with every day. Hair is harmless and can’t kill me, but in my head, I am absolutely revolted by loose hair.
I have the same problems. It affects my life in so many ways. People think it’s so easy to overcome (like I really want to be scared of loose hair). Being a woman and having this phobia is the worst of the worst. I have a sticky lint roller. It’s been a godsend to me through this. I don’t know how it even happened. I used to straighten my hair and blow dry it with no problems. It’s only loose hair, but any loose hair, even of animals. I would do anything to overcome this, but I’m petrified of it.
Saying “you guys will get over it soon” is such an ignorant comment. It’s the fastest way to anger or even trigger someone with this or any fear or disorder into more trauma and anxiety. That’s the worst thing to say to anyone that has an addiction, habit, disorder, and so forth, especially when you don’t know anything about it or have never experienced it yourself. You may not have meant it as a judgment, but it is a straight-out insult to someone that is going through it. Just because you don’t understand behavior or feelings others have doesn’t make you the expert or give you the right to belittle it and act like it’s a bad or wrong thing to do. Educate yourself more before you speak about a certain subject or just don’t say anything at all. There are already enough people in this world who learn to have more understanding, compassion, acceptance towards all, and patience. Try to put yourself in others’ shoes before you place your own personal opinions onto others.
The worst is going out to eat, being so excited for the food, being so starving by the time you get it, and there is hair in the first bite. I vomit every time and can no longer eat whatever it is forever. I can no longer eat some of my favorite dishes because even years later, my gag reflex is so strong. My mom thought it was funny or something because she fed me a hair with every meal for a week straight, which only resulted in me throwing up on the table more than once. Also, don’t get me started on bathrooms. Why do people take clumps of hair and leave them on the tub wall? Disgusting. My phobia seems to be centered around long, black hair.
I get it! I get so disgusted with hair in food. In fact, if somebody invites me over for dinner, I size them up to see if they are shedders. If I see that they are wearing something like sweaters that attach a lot of hair or they are in the process of losing hair, I won’t eat dinner at their homes. I cannot eat food at my mom’s house because she has a sweater that collects all kinds of hair on the front, and as she’s making pies or dishes of some sort, I am sure to find hair, which makes me throw up.
I used to love eating jumbo jack hamburgers at Jack-in-the-Box until I ordered one at the restaurant and was so hungry coming home from work. I took a bite out of it, and I felt the hair tickling my lips on the first bite. I pulled the hamburger away and threw the hamburger out the window. I was disgusted and couldn’t stop spitting as much out as possible and felt sick after for about an hour. My mom once made scrambled eggs for me, and I took a bite of the eggs with a fork, noticing that more eggs were attached 3 inches away from my bite. Needless to say, scrambled eggs became one of the most unappealing food items for breakfast for a long time. I was the skinniest kid in the family, and can you guess why? Also, nothing worse than swimming in a pool to find hairs woven between your fingertips webbing your fingers. I could go on and on. I don’t like it when a hair is in my car on the floor, and I see it blowing around. It always seems to end up in my face or my mouth.
Well, this is really interesting! I looked up this topic because I struggle with loose shed hair. Like many others, I am fine with hair attached to the head, but the moment it’s loose, I am freaked out. I just left one gym club because there were too many hairs everywhere. I’m at a new swimming club now, which is much cleaner, but I was totally freaked out when I saw a clump of hairs near me in the pool recently, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
When I was a child with long hair, I can remember sucking my own hair. My mom used to say stop that as the hair will choke your windpipe, and I wonder if that’s where this stems from?
When I was a kid, we bathed once a week on a Sunday. For two weeks, I ran the water but couldn’t get in because of hairs in the water. Mom went crazy at me for wasting water.
Loose hair disgusts and revolts me. I have to use a tissue to move it. The absolute worst is in a public shower or pool, and I walk with my toes curled because I am convinced I am walking on hairs, and I can feel them on my feet. When we were camping, I have showered wearing my wellies.
Hairs in plugs and drains are disgusting, and I feel nauseous at the thought, and I can never touch them. When I’m swimming, and a hair lands on my arm or leg, it totally freaks me out, and I’m always looking for them in the water.
I have a cat who I totally adore and I love dogs. Cat hairs don’t bother me too much, they just annoy me when loose, but I hated dog hairs in my house.
The absolute worst is having a wet (unattached) strain of hair on my skin, even my own. Total freak out.
I have had this since I was a child. It all started when I choked on a hair, and my mum took it out of my throat. I was choking, turning pink, and vomiting, and she saved me from it. Ever since then, I have hated loose hair. I have thick hair, which disgusts me when it sheds, so I try different things. For instance, I wash my hair upside down and only once a week. I cannot wash my hair and have it on my back. It will go on my legs, feet, or worse places, so I wash it upside down. I don’t mind cleaning out the hairbrush as much now, but this was one thing I couldn’t do when I was younger. Even now, I only clean the hairbrush when I absolutely have to. It’s worse when you have thick long hair. I hate seeing hair in my clothes. So disgusting how they’re just sitting there. Over the years, I have taught myself to handle hair situations like the plughole. I use an old toothbrush, flush the hair quickly, and throw away the toothbrush. My hair is mostly up, and I hate it down because it always finds a way to go into my face or mouth. If my hair starts shedding, I brush it more often. My eldest always tells me she wants her hair up and not down, and I wonder if she has the same fear. I used to hate dry and wet loose hair, but since I became a mom, I have had girls and had to comb their hair. After combing, I quickly remove all the loose hairs that fall. I wash my hands a lot after. Over the years, it has become less extreme because, being on my own with no parents or relatives, I had to force myself to deal with these things. I hate wet hair the most and hairs in food, which brought me here in the first place. I accidentally swallowed one in my porridge, and I have been panicking. I feel sick, and my stomach is churning. Even though I didn’t choke on it this time, it’s the thought of it even entering my body that I fear the most, and I just want it out. That’s not my only phobia. I also fear spiders and dogs. I recently tried to face my fears by petting a dog but wiped my hand constantly because of the trichophobia. I felt like the fur was all over my hands. My eldest wanted a puppy, so I was trying. I got her a Lucy dog instead because I couldn’t do it. I also thought maybe a cat, but the thought of the shedding hair makes me feel sick. I wish I could let them have a pet, but I can’t. I feel so bad. Excuse me while I vomit, though.
I’m not sure I even have this, but every time I find hair clumped up in the shower, in the toilet, or in any wet area, it makes me so disgusted and sick. Another horrible thing that has happened more than once is hair in my food. Usually, it’s easy to remove, but the thought of it is sickening. The WORST case, though, is when the hair is stuck in bread. It’s one of the most disgusting and uncomfortable experiences to bite into my breakfast sandwich and nearly choke on a strand of hair that connects the swallowed bite and the rest of the sandwich. It makes me sick just thinking about how many times that has happened. In any other case, I’m fine with hair, though I do find hairbrushes uncomfortable when filled with hair.
I believe I have hypertrichophobia. I absolutely cannot stand loose hair or animal fur. I will throw up so fast. I cannot clean drains, hairbrushes, or combs out. The fear I feel when loose hair is wet and near me is off the charts. I do not want it on my things or my bed and pillows, especially not my clothes. I believe I also have germophobia. I bleach everything. I put bleach in my dishwasher. I do not feel ok if I don’t. If I’m at someone else’s home, no matter who, I wash every dish or utensil I use. Even if it’s clean looking, I don’t like dirty nasty things. I don’t walk barefoot ever as long as I can help it. I will not shower or use a bathroom without cleaning at least the top of the toilet but usually the whole toilet. Mostly I have to clean it because of a fear of coming in contact with anything on its surface, like hair, and really I usually just focus on hair being on anything at any time that I am around. The older I get, the worse I am. My kids thought it was funny for a long time, but now they have to do some things for me because I have an irrational fear of losing hair, even my own, which is long and black and thick as hell. I know it’s irrational, but I cannot make myself not be scared or sickened, disgusted by it. The mere thought of nasty loose hair will make me vomit. And if it’s wet, forget it. I’m out.
I found a hair in my bread today and literally vomited. I have had this fear/phobia my whole life, and it’s always been centered around hair getting in my food; if I see it in my food, I will panic and vomit. If I feel it in my mouth, I will panic and vomit so fast you don’t even know. If I just think about it, I will start gagging and have to think intensely about something else, so I don’t vomit. I can’t eat at restaurants because of this, and I can’t eat at friends’ places, and now I can’t even trust store-bought bread anymore. I’ve even had long periods where I couldn’t eat because I was so scared and lost lots of weight. It really limits my life, and I don’t know how to get rid of this fear because it’s so severe. It’s getting worse, too, because I never minded hair anywhere else in my home, but now it’s gotten to the point where I must remove all hair everywhere before I can eat. It’s hell sometimes.
I am so disgusted by hair on food that if I come into an encounter like that, I most likely won’t be able to eat the food again. Like if it’s a chicken nugget with hair by a certain brand, I won’t be able to eat that brand of chicken again because my mind associates that chicken with the thought of the hair.