by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Aug 8, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
We routinely have people come into the clinic wanting to address one or more disorders related to neurotransmitter imbalance including trichotillomania. When we explain our approach of using amino acid therapy, occasionally we will hear something like “I’ve tried...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jul 18, 2013 | Support for trichotillomania
We work with a lot of people with trichotillomania. A good number of them are children, so we are usually talking with one or both parents along with the child during our consultations. More often than not, we spend a lot more time speaking with mom throughout the...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jul 11, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
One of my clients and her mother just completed a seminar with Christina Pearson and mentioned our approach of using amino acid therapy to correct the underlying biochemical imbalances that leads to the urges to pull/pick in many people. For those of you that don’t...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jun 20, 2013 | How to stop hair pulling, Managing Trichotillomania
When we get a person’s neurotransmitter function optimized, the urges to pull are eliminated in well over 80% of the people we see (incidentally, the other 20% usually discontinue using the amino acids for some reason, so we don’t know how many of them could also...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jun 6, 2013 | People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
I had written about a client of ours named Sabrina several months ago (see A Work in Progress – Sabrina’s Story). We’ve been working with Sabrina for a couple years now for trichotillomania and OCD. Sabrina had shown dramatic improvements in OCD before the original...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | May 23, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, Trichotillomania research
I am often asked why we need to complete testing to help optimize neurotransmitter levels and if we need to do testing, how many tests will be necessary to achieve success. The answer to this question isn’t as straight forward as most people would like. Here’s why....
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | May 16, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, Trichotillomania causes
I have received several comments about the post on Addressing the cause of trichotillomania, most agreeing that this approach makes good sense and seems very straight forward. Why then is it so difficult for some people to obtain optimal neurotransmitter function?...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | May 9, 2013 | Trichotillomania causes
One of the hardest things for health care professionals to do is determine how to get their patients/clients well. This may seem like a redundant statement, but think about it. A person comes in with a multitude of symptoms and/or diagnoses and they are asking you to...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | May 2, 2013 | Trichotillomania causes, Trichotillomania research
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that neurotransmitter imbalance is the cause of most people’s urge to pull. Since neurotransmitter imbalance is the underlying cause, a common sense approach would be to (a) determine a person’s neurotransmitter...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Apr 25, 2013 | Trichotillomania research
The first part of this series addressed some of the possible reasons why there has been little research conducted on effective treatments for trichotillomania. In spite of having little research available, we have found that neurotransmitter imbalance is one of the...
