A Work in Progress – Update #3

by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jan 23, 2014 | People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania

I just spoke with Sabrina’s mom (for previous updates, see https://stoppullinghairout.com/2013/11/28/a-work-in-progress-update-2/); she is still mostly OCD and urge free. In fact, she hasn’t pulled at all in the last 3 months and rates her urges to pull a “0” on a...

A Child With Trich

by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jan 9, 2014 | People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania

Yesterday, I spoke with the mother of a young girl that started to aggressively pull her hair out after being treated for Lyme’s Disease. She also became very anxious at the same time. That was 8 months ago. Since that time, she had been admitted to a psychiatric...

A Work In Progress – Update #2

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...

Research and TLC

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...

A Work in Progress – An Update

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...

Substantially Decreased Pulling and Depression – Case of 12 year old boy

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...