Trichotillomania

[TomPoo]

everything I read says it is a hair pulling compulsions that leads to hair loss.

Do all cases HAVE to be that severe??? or are there milder cases???

Also what is the main coarse of corrective action??? (for milder cases)

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[Sheeplovr]

main cure is grese up your hair if you cant get a grip then u cant pull it out

or start cuttign your self

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[Captain Rooster]

This condition can become very severe if left untreated. My friend literally had no eyebrows in college because of this disorder - he looked like the main character for Pink Floyd's "The Wall" after he shaved face "off." He just could not deal with the pressures and anxiety he was dealing with.

Never believe that there is a black and white answer to any psychological disorder. There are several levels of severity in most cases.

I would recommend the person involved to contact a physician and consider speaking with a psychologist. There are several drugs and non-drug therapies to help individuals deal with this issue.

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[JustJon]

sheepy cuts his hair with the flowbee

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[HordeKing1]

By definition, the hair pulling must result in noticable hair loss. The hair pulled may be from any part of the body.

Sometimes, trichtollomania is really OCD. It can be hard to make the diffrential diagnosis.

Tichtollomania is sometimes successfully treated with antidepressants. Cognitive behavioral therapy is another avenue of treatment.


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[The Chairman]

Trichotillomania (remember this post it may be a trivia question one day and it's not a fear of the number 13) is often associated with other OCDs. People experience relief after the act of pulling the hair or hairs. It can range for mild (I pull a beard hair every now and then)to extremely severe, where people look like they are bald in large spots. Like most OCD/Impulse control disorders, best treatment is SSRIs (Luvox, Paxil, etc.) with or without cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

If it is trichotillomania, perhaps a small dose of an SSRI or CBT, "but only your doctor will know for sure."

PS - Sheepie your post was hyterical.

PPS - KEVIS will NOT work for this.

PMS - is real. Very real.

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[ADF]

main cure is grese up your hair if you cant get a grip then u cant pull it out


No wonder them eye-talyuns always have dem luxurious locks.

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[Coco]

I know a lady who has trichotillomania. What I found truly interesting was that her father has the same thing and she didn't even know her father ever. (He left I think when she was 1.) It just leads to me to believe that a lot of these conditions really are nature and not nurture.

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[HordeKing1]

There is some genetic component but it is often only triggered following environmental stressors.

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[Coco]

triggered following environmental stressors.


I agree that environmental stressors act as a catalyst here, but, we all have ways of dealing with nervous energy due to stress (probably a million ways). Bodily reactions could be pacing, fidgeting, not sleeping, biting nails, etc. But, I think, very very few (probably , I would think 1 in 500 would pull their hair out). This is why I think a large portion of this is genetic. I just tend to believe that our neurological systems are a lot more complicated than we know.

Again, this lady did not know her father at all as a child. She had a relationship with him as an adult, and found he did the same thing.

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[Dewey]

Just pull on something else. It's more fun anyway.

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[ADF]

It's really annoying when you can't make yourself stop doing something. It's enough to make you pull your hair out.

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[HordeKing1]

PMS - is real. Very real.

The jury is still out. PMS responds better than anything else to placebos.

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