Stop Hair Pulling - Discover How Many Are Cured by This Simple Treatment
There are a good number of people who can't stop hair pulling.
If you are one of the two to four percent of the population who is unable to stop pulling hair then you may suffer from a hair pulling disorder known as trichotillomania.
Trichotillomania is a known hair pulling habit and there are treatments available which when fully utilized have proven to be fairly effective in helping you to stop it.
Unfortunately at this time there is no trichotillomania cure.
There are no drugs which will immediately cure this hair pulling disease.
Most research into this inability to stop hair pulling has indicated that this is not a condition caused by any genetic anomalies.
Some scientists do believe it is caused genetically but no evidence has been brought forth to effectively prove this.
Most researchers believe it is a type of nervous habit and therefore the best method of beating it is to utilize a type of therapy known as habit reversal therapy.
This type in therapy is used for many types of habits.
With trichotillomania it aims to stop hair pulling by effectively determining the cause of this habit and then training patients to proactively find new methods of dealing with these circumstances.
When followed carefully patients have been enormously successful in their endeavors to stop trichotillomania.
If you are one of the two to four percent of the population who is unable to stop pulling hair then you may suffer from a hair pulling disorder known as trichotillomania.
- This OCD hair pulling condition is a common cause of people being unable to end their hair pulling disorder.
- People who suffer from this condition often feel uncomfortable with their inability to end trichotillomania and also suffer from a degree of embarrassment over the bald spots which invariably form as a result of being unable to stop trichotillomania.
Trichotillomania is a known hair pulling habit and there are treatments available which when fully utilized have proven to be fairly effective in helping you to stop it.
Unfortunately at this time there is no trichotillomania cure.
There are no drugs which will immediately cure this hair pulling disease.
Most research into this inability to stop hair pulling has indicated that this is not a condition caused by any genetic anomalies.
Some scientists do believe it is caused genetically but no evidence has been brought forth to effectively prove this.
Most researchers believe it is a type of nervous habit and therefore the best method of beating it is to utilize a type of therapy known as habit reversal therapy.
This type in therapy is used for many types of habits.
With trichotillomania it aims to stop hair pulling by effectively determining the cause of this habit and then training patients to proactively find new methods of dealing with these circumstances.
When followed carefully patients have been enormously successful in their endeavors to stop trichotillomania.
- Some studies have indicated a certain degree of success using several different types of antidepressants.
These success levels have been largely inconsistent leading many top researchers specializing in trichotillomania to believe that this hair pulling disorder has little or nothing to do with depression.
Most of these specialists believe that the antidepressants only work effectively on those who do not suffer from trichotillomania but are instead practicing a type of self mutilation as a result of being depressed. - Some successful studies indicate the use of antidepressants such as Fluoxetine (Prozac) can in fact aid patients in overcoming this habit more rapidly when used in conjunction with habit reversal therapy.