FARGO – When Sandra Bodek was a little girl, she plucked the eyelashes from her dolls. By the time she was 9, she was plucking her own. Her hair-pulling moved to her scalp around age 10. Bodek, 36, of ...

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 ...

Over the course of their lives, up to 220,000 Norwegians will pick at their skin or pull out their hair to an extent that can ...

TEQUESTA, Fla. — It's something you may have never heard of but affects roughly five to 10 million Americans. From people who hide it to celebrities who are open about it like comedian Amy Schumer, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Trichotillomania, a poorly understood disorder in which a person repeatedly pulls out their own hair, leading to visible hair loss, can have a crippling effect on its ...

An eyelash takes six weeks to grow back. I learned this when I was 9 years old, and to me, it was the world's most important lesson. For months, I had been pulling out my eyelashes and playing with ...

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 ...

Some people with trichotillomania decide to shave their heads to prevent the urge to pull their hair. Although references to hair-pulling can be found as far back as ancient Egypt, the hair-pulling ...

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 ...

Olivia Munn candidly shared about the compulsive hair-pulling disorder called trichotillomania. In a recent episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, the actress spoke about how the condition first ...

FARGO - When Sandra Bodek was a little girl, she plucked the eyelashes from her dolls. By the time she was 9, she was plucking her own. Her hair-pulling moved to her scalp around age 10. Bodek, 36, of ...