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Questions And Answers About Trichotillomania
- By Adam Szmerling
- Published 01/25/2010
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You may have never heard the term before, but you may know someone who suffers. You may even suffer from the disorder yourself. In either case, you definitely will want to get your questions answered. What is known to many as an obsessive disorder is actually called Trichotillomania or TTM.
Get your questions answered, because if you suffer, you need to know that there is help and a cure available. If you know someone who suffers, you may be able to pass on the knowledge to him or her. No one should have to continue to suffer from the disorder and the life altering issues that come along with it.
What is Trichotillomania? A specialized disorder that centers around an obsessive habit yet is not obsessive disorder, TTM is the compulsive habit of pulling, plucking, or cutting hair in a centralized place on the body. This means that a sufferer may pull out or pluck hairs from their scalp, their eyebrows, their beard or even their body to an extreme point. TTM sufferers will have visible signs in the form of bald spots on the focus area.
Do people who suffer know that they are pulling out their own hair? Quite possibly, the most difficult issue of TTM is that the sufferer is not even aware of what they are doing until it is already done. Just as some people idly twirl their hair or spin a ring on their hand, a person who suffers from Trichotillomania will idly pull their own hair out.
Is there a cure for TTM? Yes, the illness can be cured through a combination of counseling session types. The key is to locate the cause or the trigger that leads to a person pulling their hair. The trigger could be any number of things and can vary from person to person, but can be located through hypnotherapy.
Often, a combination of hypnotherapy, mindfulness practices, and other types of therapies will be used to slowly cure the person of TTM.
How can I receive these treatments? If you live in the right area, you can take part in one on one sessions, but do not worry if you live elsewhere. You could also choose online, downloadable sessions or even over the telephone sessions for your TTM problems.
Sufferers of TTM can suffer from other problems as they face the anxiety, fear and embarrassment of their disorder. However, there is help and there is a cure to the problem in order to provide the help a sufferer needs.
Get your questions answered, because if you suffer, you need to know that there is help and a cure available. If you know someone who suffers, you may be able to pass on the knowledge to him or her. No one should have to continue to suffer from the disorder and the life altering issues that come along with it.
What is Trichotillomania? A specialized disorder that centers around an obsessive habit yet is not obsessive disorder, TTM is the compulsive habit of pulling, plucking, or cutting hair in a centralized place on the body. This means that a sufferer may pull out or pluck hairs from their scalp, their eyebrows, their beard or even their body to an extreme point. TTM sufferers will have visible signs in the form of bald spots on the focus area.
Do people who suffer know that they are pulling out their own hair? Quite possibly, the most difficult issue of TTM is that the sufferer is not even aware of what they are doing until it is already done. Just as some people idly twirl their hair or spin a ring on their hand, a person who suffers from Trichotillomania will idly pull their own hair out.
Is there a cure for TTM? Yes, the illness can be cured through a combination of counseling session types. The key is to locate the cause or the trigger that leads to a person pulling their hair. The trigger could be any number of things and can vary from person to person, but can be located through hypnotherapy.
Often, a combination of hypnotherapy, mindfulness practices, and other types of therapies will be used to slowly cure the person of TTM.
How can I receive these treatments? If you live in the right area, you can take part in one on one sessions, but do not worry if you live elsewhere. You could also choose online, downloadable sessions or even over the telephone sessions for your TTM problems.
Sufferers of TTM can suffer from other problems as they face the anxiety, fear and embarrassment of their disorder. However, there is help and there is a cure to the problem in order to provide the help a sufferer needs.
Adam Szmerling
Learn more about what hypnotherapy and NLP can do for you at Brighton Bay Psychotherapy where we can help you with various problems, including: Trichotillomania, panic attacks, phobias, and more
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