by Stop Pulling Hair Out | May 9, 2013 | Trichotillomania causes
One of the hardest things for health care professionals to do is determine how to get their patients/clients well. This may seem like a redundant statement, but think about it. A person comes in with a multitude of symptoms and/or diagnoses and they are asking you to...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | May 2, 2013 | Trichotillomania causes, Trichotillomania research
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that neurotransmitter imbalance is the cause of most people’s urge to pull. Since neurotransmitter imbalance is the underlying cause, a common sense approach would be to (a) determine a person’s neurotransmitter...
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...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Apr 18, 2013 | Trichotillomania research
I have been asked this question countless times (and have posed it myself to many of my colleagues), so I wanted to address it in today’s post. In my mind, there are really two parts to this question: (1) why isn’t there more research on effective treatments for...
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...
