Hair-Pulling Disorder - Mental Health Disorders - Merck Manuals Consumer VersionPHILLIPS.KATHARINE
It is often disruptive, for instance unzipping a jacket the person had just put on or taking a drink out of the normally functioning hand, pulling the person's hair or pinching them. The hand can perform every day tasks, can grasp, snap, pinch and throw things. The only thing it can...
hair brushing, cleaning, and counting. Body-based repetitive behaviors, such as compulsive nail picking, skin picking, or hair pulling, are disorders involving impulse control, which are often treating usingcognitive behavioral therapy(CBT). Some obsessive–compulsive patients find relief with the new...
she had multiple tick bites as a youngster but no known illness. However, she did have some issues that stood out: At two years old she began screaming and pulling her hair out—a condition termed trichotillomania. This gradually morphed into generalizedanxietyand irritability...
While trichotillomania commonly co-occurs with conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, and post-traumatic disorder, many patients told researchers that their hair pullingcaused them more distressthan these associated mental illnesses. ...
Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders are characterized by preoccupation or obsessive thoughts that lead to repetitive actions or behaviors. Examples include hoarding disorder, trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder), body dysmorphic disorder, etc. ...
Impulse control disorders: examples include trichotillomania (pulling out one’s hair), self-harm (such as cutting), gambling addictions, and other behavioral disorders. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): a wide range of symptoms that impair one’s well-being immediately after, and even year...
(compulsive hair pulling), onychophagia (compulsive nail biting), and excoriation disorder (compulsive skin picking). Often interacting with anxiety, what begin as "bad habits" can escalate into sources of severe shame and emotional distress impairing their ability to function. Though estimated to...
Anxiety disorders –agoraphobia, specific phobia, and social anxiety disorder, panic attack, specific phobias, social anxiety disorder, hoarding disorder, hair-pulling disorder. • Substance/medication-induced obsessive–compulsive disorders. • Other obsessive compulsive and related disorders. • Dissoci...
Dronabinol, a cannabinoid agonist, reduces hair pulling in trichotillomania: a pilot study. Psychopharmacol- ogy (Berl) 218: 493–502. Grassi Zucconi G, Cipriani S, Balgkouranidou I, Scattoni R (2006). ''One night'' sleep deprivation stimulates hippocampal neurogenesis. Brain Res Bull 69: ...