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Talk to another person with hair pulling.* Wet down your hair. This will make it really hard to pull out your hair since it will be slippery.* Learn what your body needs instead of pulling. Is your body tired, hungry, sleepy, and excited, etc? Then tell yourself out loud what you need and go do it.** Stimulate your senses.
For some people, trichotillomania may be mild and can be managed. For others, the automatic or deliberate urge to pull out hair is too much to handle emotionally. Some treatment options may help reduce hair pulling or stop it entirely.
Try a physical reminder to make yourself stop. If you’re pulling your hair unintentionally, you may need a physical reminder to make yourself stop the activity. For a physical barrier, consider wearing ankle weights on the arm that pulls, or a rubber glove, to discourage pulling.
You learn how to recognize situations where you're likely to pull out your hair and how to substitute other behaviors instead. For example, you might clench your fists to help stop the urge. One form of habit reversal training, called decoupling, involves quickly redirecting your hand from your hair to another location when you feel the urge to ...
If you have TTM or know someone who does, it’s important to remember this is a medical condition and that hair pulling is very difficult to control or stop on your own. But with treatment, it’s possible to limit how often you pull your hair or stop pulling it.
Hair pulling is a habit that manifests itself from anxiety. Learning to understand the condition and how to treat it put me in control. Here is my story.
Once you identify the major factors, or "triggers" that lead to pulling, you can then develop a menu of strategies to 1) meet your body's needs in other ways, 2) find other ways to respond to thoughts, emotions, and internal cues that trigger pulling behavior, 3) develop techniques for modifying the environment so that you will not be so ...