Trichotillomania - Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

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Trichotillomania - Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

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What is Trichotillomania?

• Trichotillomania, also known as a hair-pulling
  disorder, is a mental disorder that involves
  recurrent, irresistible urges to pull out hair
  from your scalp, eyebrows, or other areas of your
  body, despite trying to stop.
• Hair pulling from the scalp usually leaves patchy
  bald spots, which cause significant distress and
  could interfere with social or work functioning.
  People with trichotillomania might go to great
  lengths to disguise the loss of hair.
• For some people, trichotillomania might be mild
  and usually manageable. For others, the
  compulsive urge to pull their hair is
  overwhelming. Some treatment options have helped
  many people lessen their hair pulling or stop
  completely.

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Symptoms of Trichotillomania

• Repeatedly pulling your hair out, generally from
  your scalp, eyebrows, or eyelashes, but sometimes
  from other body areas, and sites might vary over
  time
• An increasing sense of tension prior to pulling,
  or when you try to resist pulling
• A sensation of pleasure or relief after the hair
  is pulled
• Noticeable hair loss, like shortened hair or
  thinned or bald areas on the scalp or other areas
  of your body, including sparse or missing
  eyelashes or eyebrows
• Preference for certain types of hair, rituals
  that accompany hair pulling, or patterns of hair
  pulling
• Biting, chewing, or eating pulled-out hair
• Playing with pulled-out hair or rubbing it
  through your lips or face
• Repeatedly trying to stop pulling out your hair
  or trying to do it less frequently without success

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• Diagnosis of Trichotillomania
• An evaluation to determine if you have
  trichotillomania might include
• Examining how much hair loss you have
• Asking questions and discussing your hair loss
  issues with you
• Removing other possible causes of hair pulling or
  hair loss through testing determined by your
  doctor
• Identifying any physical or mental health
  problems that might be related to hair pulling
• Using the diagnostic criteria in the Diagnostic
  and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
  (DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric
  Association (APA)
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