What Is National Trichotillomania Awareness Week?
National Trichotillomania Awareness Week runs from 1-8 October 2008 and is a way to spread the message of trichotillomania and work together to provide support for those suffering with the condition.
Trichotillomania is the impulse control disorder that causes people to compulsively pull out their own hair. This hair is pulled from all areas of the body, and can cause sufferers emotional distress. Sufferers may feel ashamed that they cannot stop themselves, they may think they are the only ones doing it, and may look at themselves as ugly when bald patches start to develop.
Trichotillomania Awareness Week is a way of getting the message out so that more people have heard of the condition, and that sufferers will never feel alone.
Trichotillomania is the impulse control disorder that causes people to compulsively pull out their own hair. This hair is pulled from all areas of the body, and can cause sufferers emotional distress. Sufferers may feel ashamed that they cannot stop themselves, they may think they are the only ones doing it, and may look at themselves as ugly when bald patches start to develop.
Trichotillomania Awareness Week is a way of getting the message out so that more people have heard of the condition, and that sufferers will never feel alone.
Trichotillomana Awareness Week Table of Contents
- What Happens During the National Trichotillomania Awareness Week?
- Trichotillomania Weblog
- Blog About the National Trichotillomania Awareness Week
- Blogs on the National Trichotillomania Awareness Week
- Why The Trichotillomania Awareness Week is So Important
- The Most Important Thing About Trichotillomania Awareness Week...
- The Trichotillomania Learning Center
- Trichotillomania Youtube Videos
- Helpful Trichotillomania Links
- Blogs About Trichotillomania
- Your Feedback
- Trichotillomania on Wikipedia
What Happens During the National Trichotillomania Awareness Week?
The Trichotillomania Learning Center (TLC) is a non-profit trichotillomania organization putting on events across the USA. These include demonstrations of treatments, management of the condition and more. If you do not live in the USA then you can get involved in your own way. If you do not know much about the condition, now is your chance to read some more. There are loads of trichotillomania blogs and websites for information on the condition.If you have a friend who has trichotillomania (trich), then find some ways to help them. View my lens on 'How to Help Others With Trichotillomania' for more information. Or if you have trich yourself, use this time to set some goals for yourself. Be 'pull free' for the entire week, or start participating in discussion forums to get support. Whatever you do, choose something that helps you!
See my blog links and other resources below to find information and support on the topic.
Trichotillomania Weblog
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byBlog About the National Trichotillomania Awareness Week
A great way to get involved in the National Trichotillomania Awareness Week is to blog about it. You can blog about anything - what the condition is, if you have ever heard of it, how you have helped others who have the condition, or how you have dealt with the condition yourself. Blogging is a great way to spread the word, and the more people that blog about it the more people that can learn about trichotillomania. See below for some blog links, or use your own blog and you will be added to the blog feed automatically if your blog contains the 'trichotillomania awareness' keywords! Blogs on the National Trichotillomania Awareness Week
- The Names: Trichotillomania to be Hair Pulling Disorder ...
- I have been successful in requesting that my Governor issue a Proclamation each year designating Oct 1 ? 7 as Trichotillomania Awareness Week in MA. I'd be a lot less comfortable asking that he declare it Hair Pulling Disorder Week. ...
- Raising money for Trichotillomania Resources « Christina's Blog
- I have spent the last two decades of my life with my nose close up against the grindstone of working to raise awareness, develop resources, and provide access to effective treatment for people struggling with trichotillomania. ...
- Trichotillomania now an NIMH “Disorder of Interest” « Christina's Blog
- But it is that awareness bit. It is important. I know what I have and what I need to do to live my life with it. But so many people are still hiding and scared and that just isn't okay with me anymore. So my goal is to put myself out ...
- Appropriate Grooming when I have Trichotillomania… « Christina's Blog
- Simply because with a loving, low-key and practical approach, practiced over time with awareness, the truth is we DO change, and CAN reduce our behavior, until it is only engaged in appropriate grooming! ...
Why The Trichotillomania Awareness Week is So Important
- It teaches people about what trichotillomania means. Educational events and more media attention to the condition hels to spread the world to people who have never heard of it.
- It teaches those suffering from the condition that they are not alone. They may never even have heard of the condition before, so it will be a great help to know what it is.
- It helps bring sufferers together to support each other. Emotional support is a huge factor in controlling this condition.
- Events and activities teach others how to be supportive of all impulse control conditions. We need to support everyone, not just with trichotillomania, but all conditions that lead the sufferer to feel weird or ugly.
- Each year more and more people can become involved. It is a relatively new tradition, so it can only get better every year.
The Most Important Thing About Trichotillomania Awareness Week...
...is that it spreads the word about the condition that many people have never heard of, including many who suffer in silence.
The Trichotillomania Learning Center
Organization supporting the National Trichotillomania Awareness Week
The National Trichotillomania Awareness Week is supported by the Trichotillomania Learning Center (TLC), a non-profit organization that is dedicating to supporting those with the hair pulling disorder and any other impulsive disorders such as skin picking (dermatillomania) which can provide similar psychological effects in sufferers.The TLC website is extremely popular and a great source of information about the condition. Click on the link to learn more and get support for the condition.
Helpful Trichotillomania Links
For support and advice on the condition
- All Join Hands - Home Page
- This special week will consist of local events hosted by TLC members in their communities. TLC will provide you with a
- Trich.org
- TLC - Trichotillomania Learning Center homepage
- Trichotillomania Blog
- Trichotillomania Blog - Personal stories from those with experience of trichotillomania - pulling out hair.
- Pulling hair or lashes? Put that all in the past, Come join our community where PULL FREE Lasts.
- Stop hair or lash pulling, help and tips, rewards for being pull free. Positivity. This site does not support the victim mentality. YOU CAN DO IT!
- Trichotillomania UK - Homepage
- Trichotillomania UK - Homepage
- Trichotillomania - Hair Pulling Facts, Symptoms and Solutions
- Uncontrollable hair pulling explained - what the symptoms are, what triggers it, and what can be done to stop it.
- BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Obsessions - Gallery
- Trichotillomania case study - Liz
- Trichotillomania - UK
- Online trich support in the UK
Blogs About Trichotillomania
- Trichotillomania Blog
- Trichotillomania Blog - Personal stories from those with experience of trichotillomania - pulling out hair.
- pulling out hair
- pulling out hair - stopping the uncontrollable urge
- All Join Hands Blog
- Blog on Trichotillomana Awareness Week
- The Trichotillomania Blog
- The Trichotillomania Blog features personal stories, news, commentary, and links to web resources about trichotillomania.
- It’s Trichy
- Trying to kick Trich (Trichotillomania) (with a subtle tribute to Run DMC)
Your Feedback
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Trichotillomania on Wikipedia
Trichotillomania (TTM, also known as "Trichotillosis"James, William; Berger, Timothy; Elston, Dirk (2005). Andrews Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology. (10th ed.). Saunders. ISBN 0721629210.), or "trich" as it is commonly known, is an impulse control disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes, facial hair, nose hair, pubic hair, eyebrows or other body hair, sometimes resulting in noticeable bald patches.Freedberg, et al. (2003). Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine. (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0071380760. Trichotillomania is classified in the DSM-IV as an impulse control disorder, but there are still questions about how it should be classified. It may seem, at times, to resemble a habit, an addiction, a tic disorder or an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Trichotillomania often begins during the individuals teenage years. Depression or stress can trigger the trich. Due to social implications the disorder is often unreported and it is difficult to predict accurately prevalence of trichotillomania; 2.5 million in the U.S. may have TTM, with a 1% prevalence rate.
The name derives from Greek: tricho- (hair), till(en) (to pull), and mania.
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