by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jun 10, 2014 | How to stop hair pulling, People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
It’s so wonderful to hear positive outcomes from our clients. Here’s is one story: I’ve been on a program with the NPHC for almost a year. After following Dr. Oler’s recommendations, I have almost no urges to pull and my hair has almost all grown back;...
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 | 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...
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 | 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...
