Some people with trichotillomania decide to shave their heads to prevent the urge to pull their hair. Although references to hair-pulling can be found as far back as ancient Egypt, the hair-pulling ...

When I was a sophomore in college, I became wholly consumed with plucking my eyebrows…and not in the way I’d been in the ‘90s when I wanted pin-thin brows like Drew Barrymore and Shannen Doherty. This ...

When I was 14, I started at a highly selective high school. Always a lover of math, I happily enrolled in Algebra II+, an accelerated honors class where my inevitable drowning quickly became obvious.

Trichotillomania (TTM) is sometimes related to certain mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression. While it may also start for other reasons, it is often cyclical. Treatments focus on ...

For Yvonne, it began with a single stray eyebrow hair. She was 14 when the girls in class started to tweeze their brows into fashionable arches. She remembers plucking that first wayward hair. The ...

Amy Schumer has spoken out about her struggle with Trichotillomania – a disorder which compels its sufferers to pull out their own hair. People with trich, as the condition is more commonly referred ...

Sufferers of trichotillomania pull out their own hair, strand by strand. March 27, 2008— -- Would you be brave enough to enter a beauty pageant if you had a debilitating secret? If the top of ...

Trichotillomania has been called "the most common disorder you've never heard of." Characterized by compulsive hair pulling, trich affects up to 4% of the population—it's four times more common in ...

A trichotillomania sufferer who has been pulling out her hair since she was a baby has shared her methods for combatting the disorder after her experience went viral on TikTok. Lucia Frances, 26, ...

Sitting at her desk, Katie Neiman runs her fingers through her bright blonde bob. She looks like any other successful businesswoman going about her day. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT However, ...