I get asked this question a lot. I believe there are a couple reasons, although I won’t claim to know the exact cause.
First, not many people discuss trichotillomania with their medical professional. Doctors need to be up on the treatments and therapies that work for the illnesses and disorders they see the most. If they don’t know much about trichotillomania, all they can do is rely on the “standard of care” that is dictated to them by some outside authority. Unfortunately, the “standard of care” for trichotillomania is extremely outdated and doesn’t provide much in the way of relief.
A second reason is that most medical doctors are taught to use specific tools to correct the problems they see. These tools include medications, surgery and in some cases, physical or psychological measures. Unfortunately, if a problem doesn’t respond well to one of these measures – if the tool doesn’t fit the job – a medical doctor doesn’t have much else they can do. Since trichotillomania doesn’t respond well to the tools they have available to them, many medical doctors simply have to throw up their hands and admit that they don’t have anything else to offer. Most of them also don’t have much in the way of time or energy to research other possible options, as they have a lot to do and a lot of people to see.
But some do. There are a small but growing number of medical doctors and other health care professionals that are becoming aware of amino acid therapy and how it may be applied to improve the quality of their patients’ lives. Training is available across the country through a company called NeuroResearch, which was started by Marty Hinz, MD, one of the fore-runners in neurotransmitter-based disorders and treatment, and it is geared toward busy medical professionals.
If your doctor isn’t aware of amino acid therapy, send them to the NeuroResearch website and ask them to look into it. Even if they don’t do it right away, it can plant a seed that may grow in the future.
I believe that slowly but surely, more and more health care providers will become aware of the huge potential that amino acid therapy can play in their practice with the results that countless thousands and perhaps millions of people’s lives will be benefited in the future once it does.
