Teenagers (and occasionally younger children) can develop a habit of pulling their hair from their scalp, eyebrows, or eyelashes. This habit is known medically as trichotillomania and sometimes called ...

Trichotillomania (TTM) is sometimes related to certain mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression. While it may also start for other reasons, it is often cyclical. Treatments focus on ...

Trichotillomania is a condition involving frequent urges to pull out one’s hair. Experts now consider it closely related to OCD due to the obsessive-compulsive nature of the disorder. Mental health ...

FARGO - When Sandra Bodek was a little girl, she plucked the eyelashes from her dolls. By the time she was 9, she was plucking her own. Her hair-pulling moved to her scalp around age 10. Bodek, 36, of ...

Many kids are infatuated with hair from a young age. Babies tug on their mom's tresses for a reaction, and toddlers yank on their friends' hair during playground disputes. It's an expected part of ...

For many, this is a psychological issue that goes undiagnosed. Often passed off as a bad habit, trichotillomania can cause severe physical and psychological damage if untreated. Whether you or someone ...

Trichotillomania is a disorder that affects 1-2% of the population, a majority of them female. The main feature is the recurrent compulsion to pull out one’s hair. Hair is pulled from any area of the ...

Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, dementia with Lewy bodies and other forms of dementia sometimes develop repetitive behaviors such as hair pulling. This condition is ...