If you're pulling your hair out in large or small amounts.
Other symptoms include eating the follicle at the end of your hair [the white, wet cell], or eating the whole hair. (Although this isn't trichotillomania, it's trichophigea)
Pulling hair from eyelashes, eyebrows, head, legs, arms, pubic area, anywhere.
The mains ways to know if you have it are:
-Pulling is obvious behind a cover (make-up, wig, etc.) and bald/bare spots are evident
-Feeling of stress and a strong urge before pulling
-Short feeling of relief after pulling (unfortunately followed by a strong feeling of regret/grief)
-Fear of going out in public to pools or going to play sports because your "cover" could be taken off
-Uncontroleable urges, sometimes more when stressed or depressed.
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Some young children between the ages of 1-5 can have trichotillomania but almost always outgrow it. For people who have trichotillomania over a long period of time or who are lifetime sufferers, it usually begins at puberty. Trichotillomania is also most common in females.
To be honest I have no idea what the term for plucking at bedclothes is. However, people with trichotillomania can also have the "craving" to pull hair from pets, blankets, etc. I guess it would go under the same category for someone with trichotillomania but for someone who doesn't have the disorder I really don't know... Hope this helps!
Yes.
In short... no.
Trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder) http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/trichotillomania/DS00895
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Currently, psychologists think that it is caused by an emotional unbalance. People without trichotillomania are able to regulate their stress and boredom (overstimulation and understimulation) whereas people with trichotillomania seem to be incapable of balancing these out naturally. Therefore, they turn to pulling for the balace that they need. Hope this helps!
Hair pulling was first described in the literature in 1885, and the term trichotillomania was coined by the French dermatologist F. Henri Hallopeau in 1889.
yes it will but it will take some time. i have trichotillomania, it is embarrassing but i have to live through it. any questions just message me :) i will be happy to help with how to stop or anything.
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