Trichotillomania Help Article in Aug 2010 of Going Bonkers?
Check out Abby’s latest article on Trichotillomania in Going Bonkers August 2010 issue.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
Most hair pullers are bright, insightful, highly sensitive and intuitive souls constantly straddling two worlds; the world of a functioning, successful individual and the secret world of their seemingly never-ending urges to pull “just one more hair”. The extraordinarily successful businesswoman may be negotiating a multi-million dollar deal with you while her mind is split between what you’re seeing and the inner realm of her urges. She wants to sit on her hands to keep them from reaching to her head. She wants to force herself to stop her crazy desires, but she’s unable.
The vast majority are female children and adults; often hiding behind makeup, wigs, weaves, hats and false eyelashes. They love to pull and hate it all at the same time. The sensations associated with hair pulling feel great to a hair puller but the aftereffects wreak havoc on their self-esteem and ultimately sever them from themselves, harshly damaging their self-relationship.
Relentless habits like hair pulling are self-harming addictions and like all bad habits, compulsions and addictions, on some level they help the sufferer to better tolerate his or her unconscious inner conflicts.
Abby also provides eight great tips on helping you with your compulsive hair-pulling.
Check it out today!
August 7th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Abby? I am not sure that I am leaving this message with you, but I am so glad that I found you. I feel almost like I have come in contact with Christ himself. It is so nice to know that there is some one that I can talk with honestly about this. There is so much shame associated with it. I want your book and your classes, but not sure that I want to give away money to Trichotillomania. I will feel like the disease has beat me again in that way perhaps, but I do want the book. I want to talk with you in person. I am a 36 year old single mom. Thank you.