Some children may use hair pulling as a coping mechanism during stressful times. When this action becomes compulsive, it may be trichotillomania. While many children play with their hair, consistent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People with trichotillomania have a compulsion to pull out hair from their scalp, eyebrows or other areas of the body. (Getty ...

Ahleah Paul has been dealing with trichotillomania since she was in middle school. (Courtesy of Ahleah Paul) Earlier this year, comedian Amy Schumer revealed a "big secret" she has been struggling ...

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 ...

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A comedian who used to make jokes about her hair-pulling condition while performing stand-up has said female audience members regularly disclosed having the disorder too. Jo from Stoke-on-Trent, who ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half the people participating in a study of hair-pullers got help for their compulsion from an over-the-counter supplement called N-acetylcysteine, researchers said on ...

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