What is the importance of family history when it comes to healing trichotillomania?
I believe that it’s important to explore your family history. Not for the purpose of blaming anyone, but to heal the perceptions which led you to become and remain a hair puller.
In an ideal world every person is a fully connected being–the internal voices are so well-integrated that whatever aspect of a person is best suited to handle any given situation arises to deal with it. In that world your inner voices would be connected in a constantly flowing and fluid dance.
But, the inner hair puller world (and the inner world of most people) does not match that ideal. For hair pullers, like other compulsion or addiction sufferers and those in present and past emotional pain, it’s likely that just one or two voices/aspects are in power. These “top dogs” quell and squash the rest of you into compliance.
My Trichotillomania Tribe is the expression of a vision — one where those with trichotillomania learn that they need not carry shame or stigma for compulsive hair pulling because it is not a statement of low worth, but instead speaks of your great value, sensitivity, loving nature, intelligence, and perception.
Our mission is to:
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