Trichotillomania treatment by CBT and a neuro-psychiatrist!

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Yey! By the end of the month I'll be given CBT for my trichotillomania at a reduced cost as part of an educational programme for the psychologist who did my AS-eval. Some American psychiatrist who specializes in trich is supervising the whole thing. There's hardly any experts on this at all so I'm thrilled. The SSRI and SNRI may have helped with my anxiety, but did nothing for the hair pulling. I feel really fortunate. Maybe it'll help me deal with my tics too. (Also have mild Tourette's )

I know there's a few fellow hair-pullers here, so I'll keep you updated with any progress I make. Hopefully this particular CBT will be taught to plenty of psychologists.

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as a psychologist and an aspie, this is something i actually enjoy helping people with - heck, i like doing all of the anxiety CBT treatments because they are so methodical keep at it and you will find your way through and around!

the cure for trichotillomania (this is how i cured myself) is dunking ur head in very ice cold water repeatedly NO JOKE!! !!

Please do keep me updated, I suffer from trichtillomania and have failed at stopping, I've kept it to a minimum but I have a few bald spots in my eyebrows...

My shrink put me on Luvox for the hair-pulling, but it just made me REALLY irritable.
I mostly manage to sublimate my hair-pulling to leg hairs, so it's not that bad.. well, it takes up a lot of time, but they're hairs I don't want anyways.

Trichotillomania has really affected my eye-contact. I don't really have natural eye-contact with people, because I'm always trying to look straight at them to avoid them seeing I have no eyelashes. I never let people watch me from the side and I try to wear bangs so my eyes don't show when my head is down. It's a real pain. Nowadays I've decided not to care so much, there aren't any evil teen-witches around me anymore, but my mannerisms are still programmed to deflect attention from my eyelashes. And I can never go outside without make-up, it gives me a panic-attack. That probably stems from cruel remarks by girls as I was growing up.

Anyhow, I notice that in the brief periods I have eyelashes I'm much more comfortable looking down than up at people. I want lashes so I don't have to worry about where my eyes are at. But it's ridiculously difficult to stop. A few years ago I was at a support site for hair-pullers and someone described resisting the urge like having á fly crawling over your lower lip without shooing it away....