March 17, 2018 • This writer has struggled with
compulsive hair pulling and skin picking since she was young.
While researching the relationship between Bipolar Disorder and Celiac Disease, I came across information about the relationship between Celiac Disease and Trichotillomania, or
compulsive hair pulling.
Dena Rabinowitz, PhD: Trichotillomania is
compulsive hair pulling.
Not exact matches
I began to wonder if he had trichotillomania, an obsessive -
compulsive condition in which patients
pull out their
hair.
She works with clients who have issues like alopecia or
compulsive hair -
pulling, as well as cancer patients.
The most common
compulsive behaviors in cats are wool sucking or fabric eating (a form of pica) and excessive licking,
hair chewing or
hair pulling (called psychogenic alopecia).
However, an exclusively indoor life may be restrictive and is possibly a factor leading to
compulsive behaviors such as wool sucking (when the cat sucks, chews or ingests fabric) or psychogenic alopecia (when the cat
pulls his own
hair out).
Barbering is a
compulsive, repetitive grooming by pets that
pulls out (barbers)
hair and creates bald patches.
A veterinary visit is especially important for housesoiling, aggression,
compulsive behavior (e.g. tail - chasing) or self - destructive behavior (e.g.
hair -
pulling) before considering behavioral consulting.
He is interested in the phenomenology, etiology, and treatment of anxiety and obsessive -
compulsive spectrum disorders, including OCD,
hair -
pulling disorder (trichotillomania), and tic disorders.