Trichotillomania is a condition involving frequent urges to pull out one’s hair. Experts now consider it closely related to OCD due to the obsessive-compulsive nature of the disorder. Mental health ...

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 ...

Actress Olivia Munn has spoken publicly about her own struggle with trichotillomania, a rare psychiatric disorder. She was on the most recent episode of the Armchair Expert podcast, which was recently ...

Parents of children with trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder) often worry about visible hair loss, teasing at school, or how to help their child stop. But there is a lesser-known complication of ...

Trichotillomania is a chronic psychiatric disorder that causes people to repeatedly pull out their own hair. Not only does it result in alopecia with no other underlying causes but it can have ...

Female pattern hair loss affects about 12% of women by age 29, making it the most common cause of thinning in young women. Hormonal changes linked to PCOS, thyroid disorders, and birth control shifts ...