Trichotillomania is an impulse control or brain disease similar to OCD or addiction where the person pulls out their own hair. The hair can be located anywhere. Trichotillamania may be caused by trauma, rape, physical violence, torture, child abuse, and very severe emotional abuse. It may be minor and easily managed or severe. This disease can overwhelm the person. It is very important for the person with this disease to eliminate or minimize exposure to any severely negative people in their life that are abusive or exploitative. It is an emotional disorder that usually needs several therapies in order to be managed successfully. There are many alternative therapies which are untried for this illness, but these may successful due to the large emotional component of the illness. Trichotillomania seems similar to addiction, OCD, and a bad habit. Quieting the mind should be one of the goals of any therapy. Alternative therapies that quiet the mind include Yoga, scalp acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, Emotional Freedom Technique(EFT), botanical extracts, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS),and orthomolecular medicine.[]
True enough, such brands of therapy have been conjured up long before we had the education in this condition that we do today, but trichotillomania in adults has become a past memory for a vast many. It used to be (and even presently this still persists to some degree) that "trich" was treated just the same way as an obsessive compulsive disorder ("OCD"). Utilizing the same drugs to treat OCD, these were used to treat trichotilllomania in adults and in children, using antidepressant drugs with serotonergic properties (such as with Cloropramine, also called Anafranil).
It is important for this person to sleep well and eat a well balanced diet without nitrates, amines, and food dyes. This person should avoid genetically modified foods, food additives, MSG, tumeric, and drink plenty of pure water to stay fully hydrated. The diet should allow Swiss method decaffeinated coffee or organic coffee and tea. This person should consider trying the Rotation Diet where each food may be eaten once during a four-day period. It is also a good idea to identify and reduce exposure to all allergens. You may want to consider some form of allergy treatment. Convention allergy treatments with shots is one alternative. NAET is a non-painful alternative that incorporates chiropractic and acupuncture with a special diet to treat allergens. This person needs consider a form of regular exercise like the walking, gym, biking, Bikram yoga, hiking, and dancing.
Boredom, stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and pain are what make trying to stop pulling out eyelashes very difficult. Sufferers worry about what other people think which worsens the problem and only builds on the emotional anguish. By realizing the emotional triggers that start you pulling eyelashes, you can learn to work on curing yourself.Accepting that you have a problem is a major step to stop pulling eyelashes. No one thinks any less of you for doing it, so confide in friends and family. The longer you hide from your problem of, the longer it will take to treat. With acceptance, you will start to feel better emotionally which in the end will help you physically stop pulling out eyelashes.
The development of a universal trichotillomania treatment that works for anyone has had some recent breakthroughs, using more archetypical psychological methods which have an effect on everyone. Putting these methods to use and applying these techniques with diligence, sufferers everywhere have been completely curing themselves of this condition and regaining higher quality of life. These techniques are a simple and well structured plan of trichotillomania treatment which usually takes less than ten minutes to implement with effects which last life long.For a trichotillomania treatment to be effective, you need to attack the cause. There's no miracle cure-all pill to take care of this problem, and that is due to the condition not stemming from a biochemical root. There exist some medications which are engineered to change certain behavioral activities however this merely produces a temporary fix, if indeed a functional fix at all, for the situation. One should well note that this only produces an effect while you continue to take the medications, only seeming to postpone the condition, not improving it. Obviously, this wouldn't the most prudent course of trichotillomania treatment.
Other techniques of trichotillomania treatment use different types of psychological training methods, which reports show that these actually prove to work rather well... although each of the specific types of psychological methods tend to work better for some than others. However, since this condition has its cause not in biological chemistry, but is rather psychologically rooted, manifesting as behavioral responses triggered by emotional stresses, it is through psychological techniques of trichotillomania treatment that we can more effectually attack this condition at its source.Developing a universal "one size fits all" trichotillomania treatment that works for everyone has had some rather interesting recent breakthroughs, using a more archetypical approach to psychological methods which can have a permanent effect on everyone. Utilizing these methods and diligently applying these techniques, those everywhere who suffer from this condition have been completely eliminating themselves of this condition and getting their life back. Such techniques and methods are simple, well structured plans of trichotillomania treatment which can be immediately implemented with effects that start to happen within mere minutes and last life long.
While SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) provide generally mixed results on their own, researchers usually recommend using these in conjunction with neuroleptic drugs (antipsychotics) in very low doses as a medical means of trichotillomania therapy. Due to the low success rates of medications as a stand alone form of therapy, these are usually combined with behavioral therapy. Psychoanalysis tends to focus on childhood experiences and unresolved conflicts or issues during early developmental stages of the person's life.
This is one of the first methods of trichotillomania treatment: to discover the triggers for your hair pulling. For many this could be stress, and for others it might simply be boredom. There is also evidence that diet may have an effect. Keep a journal and write down what you were doing, thinking or feeling before you started to pull. While this is related to knowing your triggers, this also means learning how to deal with them. Relaxation is a great way to take your mind of pulling and to learn to accept yourself how you are. This could be done through hypnosis, meditation, soothing music - try as many ways as possible to find out what works for you.You might think that this doesn't count as a cure, but the truth is there is no miracle trichotillomania treatment or cure. No matter what you read, the best thing you can do for yourself is to stop looking for a miracle cure and to spend time working on yourself instead. It takes time, but through talking to others online and in real life, you will realise that trich doesn't make you strange - it is just a part of you that doesn't have to define you.There is no cure for trich, and the best trichotillomania treatment means learning what works best for you and accepting it. This doesn't mean giving in, but it means getting the support you need to live your life however you want to live it.
True enough, such brands of therapy have been conjured up long before we had the education in this condition that we do today, but trichotillomania in adults has become a past memory for a vast many. It used to be (and even presently this still persists to some degree) that "trich" was treated just the same way as an obsessive compulsive disorder ("OCD"). Utilizing the same drugs to treat OCD, these were used to treat trichotilllomania in adults and in children, using antidepressant drugs with serotonergic properties (such as with Cloropramine, also called Anafranil).
It is important for this person to sleep well and eat a well balanced diet without nitrates, amines, and food dyes. This person should avoid genetically modified foods, food additives, MSG, tumeric, and drink plenty of pure water to stay fully hydrated. The diet should allow Swiss method decaffeinated coffee or organic coffee and tea. This person should consider trying the Rotation Diet where each food may be eaten once during a four-day period. It is also a good idea to identify and reduce exposure to all allergens. You may want to consider some form of allergy treatment. Convention allergy treatments with shots is one alternative. NAET is a non-painful alternative that incorporates chiropractic and acupuncture with a special diet to treat allergens. This person needs consider a form of regular exercise like the walking, gym, biking, Bikram yoga, hiking, and dancing.
Boredom, stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and pain are what make trying to stop pulling out eyelashes very difficult. Sufferers worry about what other people think which worsens the problem and only builds on the emotional anguish. By realizing the emotional triggers that start you pulling eyelashes, you can learn to work on curing yourself.Accepting that you have a problem is a major step to stop pulling eyelashes. No one thinks any less of you for doing it, so confide in friends and family. The longer you hide from your problem of, the longer it will take to treat. With acceptance, you will start to feel better emotionally which in the end will help you physically stop pulling out eyelashes.
The development of a universal trichotillomania treatment that works for anyone has had some recent breakthroughs, using more archetypical psychological methods which have an effect on everyone. Putting these methods to use and applying these techniques with diligence, sufferers everywhere have been completely curing themselves of this condition and regaining higher quality of life. These techniques are a simple and well structured plan of trichotillomania treatment which usually takes less than ten minutes to implement with effects which last life long.For a trichotillomania treatment to be effective, you need to attack the cause. There's no miracle cure-all pill to take care of this problem, and that is due to the condition not stemming from a biochemical root. There exist some medications which are engineered to change certain behavioral activities however this merely produces a temporary fix, if indeed a functional fix at all, for the situation. One should well note that this only produces an effect while you continue to take the medications, only seeming to postpone the condition, not improving it. Obviously, this wouldn't the most prudent course of trichotillomania treatment.
Other techniques of trichotillomania treatment use different types of psychological training methods, which reports show that these actually prove to work rather well... although each of the specific types of psychological methods tend to work better for some than others. However, since this condition has its cause not in biological chemistry, but is rather psychologically rooted, manifesting as behavioral responses triggered by emotional stresses, it is through psychological techniques of trichotillomania treatment that we can more effectually attack this condition at its source.Developing a universal "one size fits all" trichotillomania treatment that works for everyone has had some rather interesting recent breakthroughs, using a more archetypical approach to psychological methods which can have a permanent effect on everyone. Utilizing these methods and diligently applying these techniques, those everywhere who suffer from this condition have been completely eliminating themselves of this condition and getting their life back. Such techniques and methods are simple, well structured plans of trichotillomania treatment which can be immediately implemented with effects that start to happen within mere minutes and last life long.
While SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) provide generally mixed results on their own, researchers usually recommend using these in conjunction with neuroleptic drugs (antipsychotics) in very low doses as a medical means of trichotillomania therapy. Due to the low success rates of medications as a stand alone form of therapy, these are usually combined with behavioral therapy. Psychoanalysis tends to focus on childhood experiences and unresolved conflicts or issues during early developmental stages of the person's life.
This is one of the first methods of trichotillomania treatment: to discover the triggers for your hair pulling. For many this could be stress, and for others it might simply be boredom. There is also evidence that diet may have an effect. Keep a journal and write down what you were doing, thinking or feeling before you started to pull. While this is related to knowing your triggers, this also means learning how to deal with them. Relaxation is a great way to take your mind of pulling and to learn to accept yourself how you are. This could be done through hypnosis, meditation, soothing music - try as many ways as possible to find out what works for you.You might think that this doesn't count as a cure, but the truth is there is no miracle trichotillomania treatment or cure. No matter what you read, the best thing you can do for yourself is to stop looking for a miracle cure and to spend time working on yourself instead. It takes time, but through talking to others online and in real life, you will realise that trich doesn't make you strange - it is just a part of you that doesn't have to define you.There is no cure for trich, and the best trichotillomania treatment means learning what works best for you and accepting it. This doesn't mean giving in, but it means getting the support you need to live your life however you want to live it.
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