by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Aug 22, 2013 | Managing Trichotillomania, People with trichotillomania
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed why taking only 5-HTP can create further neurotransmitter imbalances because of completion/inhibition in the production of neurotransmitters. This post will cover an additional issue that occurs during the degradation of...
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 | 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...
