by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Dec 26, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania, Trichotillomania causes
From time-to-time I am asked a question along these lines of – ‘Why can’t I just take neurotransmitters to optimize my neurotransmitter levels?’ On the surface, this seems like a very straightforward approach – something is missing, so you replace it with that...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Dec 12, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania, Trichotillomania causes
We see a lot of people with trichotillomania; in fact, we get referrals from all over the world from doctors and other health care professionals that are looking for ways to get their patients well. Every one of these referrals have the tell-tale symptoms of...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Nov 28, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
I have given a couple updates over the past year about a client of ours with trichotillomania named Sabrina (see A Work in Progress – An Update and A Work in Progress – Sabrina’s Story. I have spoken with Sabrina’s mom several times over the past several months and...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Nov 14, 2013 | How to stop hair pulling, Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
I just got off the phone with a gentleman from the East Coast, we’ll call him Wayne. Wayne has been pulling out or at his hair for the past 32 years. He also suffers from chronic depression that has ebbed and flowed over his entire life, but that has gotten worse and...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Oct 31, 2013 | How to stop hair pulling, Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
Once a person understands how and why amino acid therapy works, the next question is often “How much amino acid will I need to get better?” The truth is we don’t know, at least not until we get started. Each person with neurotransmitter imbalance comes in with unique...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Oct 17, 2013 | How to stop hair pulling, Managing Trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania, Trichotillomania causes
We get referrals from all over the world for people looking to eliminate the urge to pull or pick associated with trichotillomania. One of the first questions is something along the lines of “How will this therapy (amino acid therapy) help me?” Here’s a great...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Oct 3, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
We get questions similar to this all the time, both in the clinic, via email and on numerous blogs that we participate in. It seems like such a simple question, and we have been conditioned to think that a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach works most of the time. The...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Sep 19, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania
I get asked this question a lot, and rightly so. As a father of two young children, I want to know with a high level of certainty that anything they put into their mouths will be good for them and at the very least, not harm them in any way. That is one of the reasons...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Sep 5, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania
Part 1 of this series described how taking only 5-HTP can exacerbate neurotransmitter imbalance because of issues during the production of neurotransmitters. Part 2 described a similar problem that can occur during the degradation of neurotransmitters. The upshot is...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Aug 22, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed why taking only 5-HTP can create further neurotransmitter imbalances because of completion/inhibition in the production of neurotransmitters. This post will cover an additional issue that occurs during the degradation of...
