Trichotillomania, a mental health condition, involves a strong urge to pull hair, often stemming from anxiety or compulsive ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Dena Rabinowitz, PhD: Trichotillomania is compulsive hair pulling. Where people pull out their hair either from their head, their face, or anywhere on their ...

Compulsive behaviors are actions that are engaged ... These include nail-biting, hair-pulling and skin-picking. In some cases, BFRBs are engaged in to decrease anxiety. These behaviors rarely ...

Having battled with trichotillomania for more than a decade, one writer tells Stylist about the debilitating, compulsive hair pulling disorder and why fellow sufferers shouldn’t stay silent.

There are a variety of conditions that have obsessive compulsive disorder qualities that are quite similar to ... People may spend several hours picking at their hair or skin. Sophie Schneider, Ph.D., ...

found low self-esteem to be associated with frequency of hair-pulling, among a number of other factors unrelated to hair-pulling, [22] such as degree of depression, level of anxiety, or level of ...

The rare syndrome recently came into notice after an eight-year-old, Aditi in Bangalore was treated for trichobezoar, a ...