by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Apr 18, 2013 | Trichotillomania research
I have been asked this question countless times (and have posed it myself to many of my colleagues), so I wanted to address it in today’s post. In my mind, there are really two parts to this question: (1) why isn’t there more research on effective treatments for...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Apr 11, 2013 | People we helped stop pulling hair out
Doug was a 12 year old boy that had started pulling about 1.5 years before his mom found us. It started with pulling from the top of his head, but progressed over time to pulling out his eyebrows, then eyelashes, then the hair on top of his arms. Just before Doug...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Apr 4, 2013 | People with trichotillomania
In talking with a colleague the other day, I was struck with a realization that I found very interesting. We have found a significant portion of the people we see with trichotillomania exhibit traits of a ‘Type A personality’ including being high-achievers. This is...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Mar 28, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania
Teresa was sobbing into the phone as we talked. She was telling me about how she couldn’t stop pulling; how she often pulled and didn’t realize it until she saw the bald spots on her head getting larger and larger; how she was so sad because she felt like she was...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Mar 21, 2013 | Support for trichotillomania
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...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Mar 14, 2013 | How to stop hair pulling, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know that for most people trichotillomania the urges to pull are due to imbalance(s) in neurotransmitters. The solution, therefore, is to rebalance a person’s neurotransmitter levels. The exact methods used...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Mar 7, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
I spoke with the mother of a young girl with trich yesterday. This young woman, we’ll call her Beth, had been working with us for 9 months to try and eliminate her urges to pull. She had seen success within a couple months of starting amino acid therapy, but the urges...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Feb 28, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, Trichotillomania research
Fibromyalgia affects an estimated 6 million people in the US. The number of children and teens with fibromyalgia isn’t well documented, as the disorder is often misdiagnosed or overlooked in young people. People with fibromyalgia can have a wide range of symptoms, but...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Feb 21, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
I just got off the phone with the mother of one of the young women we are working with for trich and wanted to share her story. Carmen is 11 years old and started pulling in March 2012; she was completely bald before she started working with us and had tried many...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Feb 14, 2013 | People with trichotillomania, Trichotillomania research
I recently spoke to a mother that was at the end of her rope; her 12 year old daughter had been pulling for several years and they had been doing everything possible to try and cover up her bald patches and missing eyebrows so that other people – friends and family...
