Note – This will be my last post here for a while. It is almost Christmas and then I am going away for the first two weeks of January. There may be some scheduled posts, but if not I will be back in the middle of Janurary! Since Christmas is fast approaching I was wondering [...]
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Does Childhood Trauma Cause Trichotillomania?
There are many theories behind the causes of trichotillomania, and I believe that there are different causes for different people. For me, I don’t know exactly why but having a hair braid led to me fiddling with my hair a lot, which led to me pulling. However, psychoanalytic theories suggest that trichotillomania may be a [...]
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My name's Penny, and I started OnTrich (a trichotillomania blog) to try and raise awareness about hair pulling, and also as a way to help me deal with my own pulling. I'm a 23 year old girl from the UK and I've been pulling for 13 years. Get in touch if you want to chat or need any help - I love meeting people here.
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