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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 ]

3. Body-focused repetitive behavior - Wikipedia

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   Cognitive behavioral therapy was cited as experimental evidence based therapy to treat trichotillomania and nail biting; [7] a systematic review found best evidence for habit reversal training and decoupling. [8] Another form of treatment that focuses on mindfulness, stimuli and rewards has proven effective in some people.

4. 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 ...

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. ... Sometimes your health care professional may recommend long-term use of the ...

6. Trichophagia - Wikipedia

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   The association between trichotillomania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and related body-focused repetitive behaviors has been of particular interest to researchers, with studies finding that those with both trichotillomania and obsessive-compulsive disorder have higher levels of anxiety and depression as opposed to those who only suffer from ...

7. Rapunzel syndrome - Wikipedia

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   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.