Trichotillomania is a mental health disorder where a person compulsively pulls out or breaks their own hair. Here are some details about trichotillomania, including positive and negative aspects, ingredients, and materials:
Positive aspects:
- Treatment options have helped many people reduce their hair pulling or stop entirely.
- Good clinical practice relies on accurate assessment to obtain initial diagnoses, to gather information for treatment planning and to evaluate changes in symptoms.
Negative aspects:
- Trichotillomania is a long-term (chronic) disorder. Without treatment, symptoms can vary in severity over time.
- When it’s severe, trichotillomania often has extremely negative effects on a person’s happiness, well-being, and overall quality of life.
Ingredients or materials:
- Sometimes pulling hairs from pets or dolls or from materials, such as clothes or blankets, may be a sign of trichotillomania.
- Trichotillomania is defined as an obsessive-compulsive or related disorder in which patients recurrently pull out hair from any region of their body.
- Trichotillomania (TTM; hairpulling disorder) is characterized by recurrent pulling of ones hair resulting in hair loss.
