by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Oct 3, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
We get questions similar to this all the time, both in the clinic, via email and on numerous blogs that we participate in. It seems like such a simple question, and we have been conditioned to think that a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach works most of the time. The...
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 | 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...
