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 | 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 | 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 | 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 25, 2013 | Trichotillomania research
The first part of this series addressed some of the possible reasons why there has been little research conducted on effective treatments for trichotillomania. In spite of having little research available, we have found that neurotransmitter imbalance is one of the...
