Makes you want to pull your hair out: Treating trichotillomania
One of the saddest, but more treatable, causes of hair loss in patients is trichotillomania, the impulse control disorder in which a person repeatedly pulls out hair from their body for non-cosmetic reasons. While some people have never even heard of trichotillomania, according to the Trichotillomania Learning Center, as many as ten million Americans (or 4% of the U.S. population) suffer from the disorder.
According to the Diagnositic and Statistical Manual …
Makes you want to pull your hair out: Treating trichotillomania





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