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 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...
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...
