Trichotillomania drove me to pull out strands of my hair until I was bald. The wigs couldn't cover my shame.

In a society where long, shiny hair signals sex appeal and desirability, I am a woman with a bald spot. Worse, it is one of my own making: I tear out my hair, strand by strand, or sometimes in ...

Pulling out my hair felt good. I desperately wanted to stop. I never wanted to stop.

Pulling Your Hair Out? It Might Just Help Reverse Baldness Plucking hair could be a counterintuitive way to fight balding, according to a study of quorum sensing in rat follicles ...

To find out what it's like to live with—and recover from—this disorder, we spoke with Erica, a woman from New Jersey who started pulling out her hair in grade school.

People with trichotillomania often pull to the point of causing complete hair loss even though that’s never intended or desired. And this eventually leaves them feeling depressed and isolated.

Bad genes may be at least partially to blame for wanting to pull your hair out. A new study suggests mutations in a gene called SLITKR1 may play a role in the development of trichotillomania in ...

Mick Foley, when playing his original Mankind character in WWE, used to pull his hair out in the ring, and here's how he managed to do it.

Although references to hair-pulling can be found as far back as ancient Egypt, the hair-pulling disorder known as trichotillomania is still riddled with shame, misconceptions and lack of awareness.

I pull my own hair out tuft by tuft’ A new book argues that obsessive compulsive behaviour – from wall punching to hair pulling – offers emotional release ...