THE Number One place to begin is the Trichotillomania Learning Center www.trich.org. It was created in 1991 by Christina Pearson, herself a hair puller and skin and picker. It offers support, lists of professionals trained in treating trich, lists of support groups, free publications, news updates, a national conference, as well as other resources to people with these conditions. It also sponsors research and training for these understudied conditions. Check out the website. Sign up for free information. Strongly consider membership.
There are a number of articles at trich.org/treatment/resources-articles.html.
There are additional articles by Fred Penzel, PhD, a pioneer therapist and author at westsuffolkpsych.homestead.com/Articles.html.
To find trained providers, go to trich.org/treatment/treatment-provider.html.
There are a handful or so books written for people with these conditions. One good one is Help for Hair Pullers by Kuethen, Stein, and Christenson.
An excellent article on medications is Medications for Trichotillomania and Pathologic Skin Picking by Jon Grant, MD trich.org/treatment/article-medications-grant.html. It also briefly touches on the promising use of N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC), an amino acid and Inositol, a B-vitamin and an isomer of glucose. For more information and a brief video on Grant's research on NAC trich.org/tlc/news.html.
For those people who either don't have access to professionals trained to work with trichotillomania or don't want to see a therapist, there are two self-help websites, stoppulling.com and stoppicking.com. These sites were developed by Drs. Mouton-Odum, Stanley, and Keuthen, all recognized leaders in the treatment of Body Focused Disorders. Monthly subscriptions for this assessment and behavioral website are $29.95/mo. They state that it is NOT intended as a substitute for therapy.
A very moving documentary about trichotillomania is Bad Hair Life, available on DVD. This was done by Jennifer Raikes, who has a long history of her own hair pulling. It presents intimate portraits of adults and children at different stages of coping with hair-pulling.
Trichotillomania is an increasingly treatable condition. DON'T GIVE UP!
Mike Miller, PhD
http://drmikemiller.com/trichotillomaniachronicskinpicking.html
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