by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Feb 7, 2013 | People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
I just got off the phone with a young woman (13 years old) and her mother. The young woman, let’s call her Angie, has been suffering from trich for a couple years but seeing great improvements with amino acid therapy. In the course of our conversation, I found out...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jan 31, 2013 | People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
We’ve been working with people with trichotillomania from all over the world for many years now and have shared numerous stories of their journeys, successes and setbacks in this blog. I’d like to know more about you – the thousands of people that read this blog every...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jan 24, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
The holidays were supposed to be a time of good cheer, good friends and for many, a time to reaffirm our faith in a higher-power and to give thanks for all we have. It is also a time of high stress, expectation, disappointment, sweets, erratic sleep schedules, final...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jan 17, 2013 | People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
Trichotillomania affects a lot of kids; conservative estimates place it between 0.6% and 2.5% of children, although the actual number is probably much higher. More important than the prevalence of trichotillomania in our children is the impact that trichotillomania...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jan 10, 2013 | People with trichotillomania
Children with trichotillomania are fighting an uphill battle. They often experience overwhelming urges to pull their hair out no matter how badly they don’t want to. Friends and family members start to shun or ridicule them. Parents tell them to “just stop”. They may...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Dec 13, 2012 | People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
Timmy’s parents came to us after their third unsuccessful trial with psychotherapy to help him stop pulling out the hair on his head; they had also tried several rounds of medications with no results. Timmy was a 9 year old boy and had progressively pulled back from...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Dec 6, 2012 | People with trichotillomania
Trichotillomania is thought to occur in between 0.6% and 2.5% of children, although the numbers could be much higher as most people suffer from trichotillomania without ever being diagnosed. Trichotillomania in children is sometimes categorized as a short-term habit...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Nov 29, 2012 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania
We have had a number of clients lately that have come to us experiencing intense cravings for sweets along with the urges to pull associated with trichotillomania. Part of the reason is that we also run a weight management program that targets the specific underlying...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Nov 15, 2012 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania, Trichotillomania research
Many times, the urges to pull that are associated with trichotillomania can be completely eliminated in a very straightforward manner. We adjust a person’s amino acid levels based on their symptoms and they wake up one morning with no urge to pull. These cases are...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Nov 8, 2012 | Managing Trichotillomania, People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
We have talked a lot about the wide ranging effects that neurotransmitter function can have on various aspects of a person’s life (here is a short list of symptoms that are related to neurotransmitter imbalance). A recent client conversation highlighted this in...
