Within the past month, I have spent hours upon hours pulling out one hair after another. Although I’ve landed at a healthier mindset when it come to my hair pulling and subsequent hair loss, I’d be lying if I told you it’s been easy looking at all my new bald spots.

This weekend at The TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB)’s annual conference, I pulled out an eyelash in a room filled with other hair pullers…

The fourth and final part in a series about what it was like to parent a child with trichotillomania (a hair-pulling disorder). This week is all about forgiving and accepting yourself for your trichotillomania.

The third part in a series about what it was like to parent a child with trichotillomania. This week is all about treating trichotillomania - what worked and what didn't.

The second part in a series about what it was like to parent a child with trichotillomania. This week is all about lessons learned as a parent of a child with special needs, and how my mom's parenting styling has evolved over the years.

This is the first part in a series about raising a child with trichotillomania, a hair-pulling disorder. This video is all about first impressions to trichotillomania, and realizing your child has a mental illness.

Growing up with trichotillomania, I was convinced that people would not like me if I told them about my hair-pulling disorder. 

Nail biting, skin picking, and hair pulling. What do they all have in common? 

How do you tell someone you pull out your hair? This week, I’m breaking down some tips that have helped me over the years share my trichotillomania with others.

Many trichsters, myself included, use New Year’s resolutions, birthday wishes, and shooting stars as moments of hope to tell ourselves, “I’m going to stop pulling my hair out.”

It’s October. For those of us who use the New Year to set our intention for the changes we want to make in our lives, October can feel like a funny time…

For years, I was in a cycle of negative self-talk. I wanted nothing more than to go cold turkey; I thought the only way I could be happy was to stop pulling out my hair…

Growing up with trichotillomania, I had no idea so many women were unhappy with their hair. Call it naïveté or maybe even jealousy, but I couldn't imagine that women who didn't suffer from trich or alopecia had anything to complain about. 

I was in New York last weekend packing up everything I’d left behind. I was on high alert for hair pulling going into the trip. I usually pull more every time I go home.

I'd had a hair-pulling episode. I’d like to tell you that I have them once in a blue moon, but I’d be lying. The truth is I have one about once a week, and they can last hours.

This week, I'm breaking down some of the most common questions and statements that people with trichotillomania do not like to hear.

I wanted nothing more than to go cold turkey with my pulling. With every hair I pulled I thought to myself, "this will be the last hair ever I pull." Twenty years of trichotillomania later, I can definitively say that there has been no "last hair."

Giving thanks isn't just reserved for the fourth Thursday in November anymore. Gratitude should be a part of your daily life.

I can’t give you the secret tip to stop pulling, because I haven’t found one yet. I can help you change the way you view your trich, so your disorder isn’t a point of shame and embarrassment.

This week's blog is the second in a two-part series about staring at people who look "different." People with trichotillomania (or any hair loss) are often on the receiving end of those uncomfortable glances.