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 | 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 | 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 | Oct 11, 2012 | How to stop hair pulling, Managing Trichotillomania
“I can’t stop pulling my eyebrows out.” This was a desperate plea from a recent client that felt helpless to do anything about it. We hear many versions of this cry for help from hundreds of people when they first come to us. Some have been diagnosed with...
