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 ...

If you find yourself feeling riddled with the compulsive urge to pull out your own hair to the point of balding, you might be thinking, "Why me? what is wrong with me? Am I the only person who does ...

Sept. 27, 2006 — -- An unusual disorder leaves its sufferers with bare eyebrows, bare eyelashes, a ragged scalp that even a wig might not cover, and a very damaged self-esteem. Trichotillomania, ...

A simple nutritional supplement could provide the first medical assistance for compulsive hair-pullers, who often pluck hair from the scalp, eyebrows and lashes to the point of baldness. The ...

Olivia Munn candidly shared about the compulsive hair-pulling disorder called trichotillomania. In a recent episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, the actress spoke about how the condition first ...

Trichotillomania is a mental health condition characterized by pulling hair from the body. It can be caused by stress or negative emotions and can lead to other health issues. Here, a dermatologist ...

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 ...

Trichotillomania is a chronic psychiatric disorder that causes people to repeatedly pull out their own hair. Not only does it result in alopecia with no other underlying causes but it can have ...

For those who live with it, the little known disorder can be shrouded in shame and steeped in stigma. Shedding light on ...

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 ...