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

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   For others it is a subconscious response to feelings of fear, stress and/or anxiety.” Still others pull out hair because they are bored, frustrated or impatient, according to research published ...

4. Can Stress Actually Cause Female Hair Loss? - AOL

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   Another type of stress-related hair loss is a hair-pulling disorder known as trichotillomania. It can also be triggered by anxiety and stress, causing some individuals to pull their hair out.

5. Women share what it's like living with trichotillomania: 'I ...

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   In her heightened state of anxiety, Hamlow says she didn't even realize she was pulling out her hair until her mom noticed the shorter patches. Chloe Hamlow didn't realize how severe her hair ...

6. Trichophagia - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. 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.

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. 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 ...