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 ...

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.

These include pulling, picking, biting, or scraping one's hair, skin, or nails. The disorders include trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling), dermatillomania (compulsive skin picking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dealing with trichotillomania, a disorder that causes a compulsive need to pull out hair, made middle school a difficult time for Amy Schumer. The comedian and actress, 40, shared last month that ...