What is trichotillomani.
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Trichotillomania is an impulse control disorder characterized by an overwhelming urge to pull out one's own hair, often resulting in patches of baldness. The hair on the scalp is most often affected. The eyelashes, eyebrows, and beard are also affected often. In some cases, affected individuals chew and/or swallow (ingest) the hair they have pulled out (trichophagy). The exact cause of trichotillomania is unknown.
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The cause is supposed to be an obsessive compulsive sort of by-product, inner stress, not unlike biting one's fingernails.
Go to Web.md for more data.
If you are doing it, ONLY you can make yourself quit--only you can make yourself stop--there are no "patches" for it like smoking cessation!
Sorry!
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And here is web address - I hope this help you..
www.trich.org
Trichotillomania is an impulse control disorder characterized by an overwhelming urge to pull out one's own hair, often resulting in patches of baldness. The hair on the scalp is most often affected. The eyelashes, eyebrows, and beard are also affected often. In some cases, affected individuals chew and/or swallow (ingest) the hair they have pulled out (trichophagy). The exact cause of trichotillomania is unknown.
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