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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.
Rapunzel syndrome is an extremely rare intestinal condition in humans resulting from ingesting hair (trichophagia). [1] [2] The syndrome is named after the long-haired girl Rapunzel in the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Trichophagia is sometimes associated with the hair-pulling disorder trichotillomania. [3]
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]
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There have been many different theories regarding the causes of excoriation disorder, including biological and environmental factors. [10]A common hypothesis is that excoriation disorder is often a coping mechanism to deal with elevated levels of turmoil, boredom, anxiety, or stress within the individual, and that the individual has an impaired stress response.
Another shared, "I have trichotillomania and I deal with hair pulling all the time. Shout out to others who are struggling." In May, Siwa spoke to The View about her decision to cut off her hair.
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy, also called transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis, transthyretin amyloidosis abbreviated also as ATTR (hereditary form), or Corino de Andrade's disease, [1] is an autosomal dominant [2] neurodegenerative disease.
Tetra-amelia syndrome (tetra-+ amelia), also called autosomal recessive tetraamelia, [1] is an extremely rare autosomal recessive [2] congenital disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs.