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 7, 2013 | People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
I just got off the phone with a young woman (13 years old) and her mother. The young woman, let’s call her Angie, has been suffering from trich for a couple years but seeing great improvements with amino acid therapy. In the course of our conversation, I found out...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Dec 13, 2012 | People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
Timmy’s parents came to us after their third unsuccessful trial with psychotherapy to help him stop pulling out the hair on his head; they had also tried several rounds of medications with no results. Timmy was a 9 year old boy and had progressively pulled back from...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Nov 8, 2012 | Managing Trichotillomania, People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
We have talked a lot about the wide ranging effects that neurotransmitter function can have on various aspects of a person’s life (here is a short list of symptoms that are related to neurotransmitter imbalance). A recent client conversation highlighted this in...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Sep 20, 2012 | People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
Delaney came to us when she was 16 years old. She had started pulling when she was 11, just after she hit puberty. Originally, she started pulling at the temple area of her head, but it progressed to other areas of her head and her eyebrows. Her pulling became...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Aug 30, 2012 | Managing Trichotillomania, People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
A paradoxical reaction occurs when the opposite of what is expected happens during amino acid administration. This is the unfortunately situation where a person’s symptoms get worse after starting or increasing the daily amino acid dosing value. This is exactly what...
