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2. Trichotillomania - Wikipedia

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   Trichotillomania (TTM), also known as hair-pulling disorder or compulsive hair pulling, is a mental disorder characterized by a long-term urge that results in the pulling out of one's own hair. [2] [4] A brief positive feeling may occur as hair is removed. [5] Efforts to stop pulling hair typically fail.

3. 7 Common Causes of Hair Loss for Men (& How to Treat Them) - AOL

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   Trichotillomania, also called hair-pulling disorder, is a mental health condition in which a person habitually and compulsively pulls out their own hair. ... The specific medical treatment for ...

4. Why do some people pull out their hair? Trichotillomania ...

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   Trichotillomania — also known as hair-pulling disorder — is an impulse control disorder that “involves recurrent, irresistible urges to pull out hair from your scalp, eyebrows or other areas ...

5. How Common Is Teenage Hair Loss? - AOL

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   Then there’s trichotillomania, a mental disorder characterized by the frequent urge to pull hair from the scalp. Medications Certain medications can cause hair loss , including:

6. Aversion therapy - Wikipedia

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   Aversion therapy has been used in the context of subconscious or compulsive habits, such as chronic nailbiting, hair-pulling (trichotillomania), or skin-picking (commonly associated with forms of obsessive compulsive disorder as well as trichotillomania). In treating sexually deviant behavior, aversion therapy is implemented in the form of ...

7. Trichophagia - Wikipedia

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   Rarely, persons with trichophagia do not exclusively have trichotillomania and instead will eat the hair of others. [9] [5] Trichotillomania can be categorized as either "automatic", where the hair pulling is so habitual it is almost unconscious, or "focused", where the pulling is more deliberate, with the focused behavior thought to be more ...

8. Skin picking and hair pulling need to be part of the mental ...

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   Trichotillomania and dermatillomania, hair pulling and skin picking disorders, respectively, are often formed as coping mechanisms. these acts trick the brain into releasing dopamine and offer a ...

9. Decoupling for body-focused repetitive behaviors - Wikipedia

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   Decoupling [1] is a behavioral self-help intervention for body-focused and related behaviors such as trichotillomania, onychophagia (nail biting), skin picking and lip-cheek biting. The user is instructed to modify the original dysfunctional behavioral path by performing a counter-movement shortly before completing the self-injurious behavior ...