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Trichotillomania can go into remission-like states where the individual may not experience the urge to "pull" for days, weeks, months, or even years. [13] Individuals with trichotillomania exhibit hair of differing lengths; some are broken hairs with blunt ends, some new growth with tapered ends, some broken mid-shaft, or some uneven stubble.
People with trichotillomania have a compulsion to pull out hair from their scalp, eyebrows or other areas of the body. (Getty Images) (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Trichotillomania is the compulsion to pull out one's own hair; if an individual consumes it after ripping it out as well, it is known as trichophagia. Pica comes from the Latin word for "magpie" and involves the craving of non-food items such as cloth, wool, hair, or even small metallic objects.
While trichotillomania typically starts between the ages of 10 and 13, some younger kids also partake in hair-pulling. Model Anna Gantt tells Yahoo Life that she was diagnosed with ...
Trichophagia is most closely associated with trichotillomania, the pulling out of one's own hair, and thus any symptoms of trichotillomania could be predictive of trichophagia and must be ruled out. Rarely, persons with trichophagia do not exclusively have trichotillomania and instead will eat the hair of others. [9] [5]
Trichotillomania: history of pulling hair or evidence of traumatic follicles [8] Pull Test. This test is performed to estimate the severity of hair loss and refine the differential diagnosis. A clinician grabs sections of hair and observes for active hair loss.
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