If You Suffer with Trichotillomania, Compulsive Hair Pulling or another Compulsive Behavior, Come and Learn How to Heal Youself!
Teaching people with trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling) and other painful compulsive behaviors or longstanding emotional problems (obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) chronic depression, compulsive overeating, etc.) how to free themselves by deeply and permanently self-healing at the "core."
The Inside Truth About Trichotillomania in Children and Teens
Posted at 12:08 PM, Sep. 27, 2007
WHY WON’T MY CHILD STOP HAIR PULLING? New In-Depth Guide Provides Groundbreaking Strategies for Parents of Hair Pulling Children and Teens and New Answers for Adult Hair Pullers
LAFAYETTE, COLORADO – Parents of children and teens suffering with trichotillomania, compulsive hair pulling disorder, and adult sufferers find breakthrough answers and guidance in the new guide (available both electronically or spiral bound), Why Won’t My Child Stop Hair Pulling? The Inside Truth About Trichotillomania in Children and Teens by Trichotillomania Consultant Abby Leora Rohrer.
Why Won’t My Child Stop Hair Pulling? explores the cultural, environmental, and psychological factors that contribute to, and result from, Trichotillomania, and offers real answers for hair pullers of all ages to end their self-destructive patterns. Rohrer outlines a groundbreaking 7-point profile of the child hair puller that she uncovered by teaching healing techniques to trichotillomania sufferers and parents. This profile covers:
Personality Traits and Temperament
Family History
Specific Childhood Issues
Emotional Factors
Up to 15 million Americans struggle with Trichotillomania. Those who suffer with it are driven to pull hair from their scalps, eyelashes, eyebrows or other parts of their bodies. Many sufferers hide their affliction by covering affected areas of the body with makeup, hats or clothing. As a result, hair-pullers also suffer from silent shame and live their lives hiding their problem from others.
Trichotillomania is especially painful for children and teens because they face added social pressures and fear of criticism in many challenging public environments such as school, day-care, team sports, extra-curricular activities, camps, church events and more. In addition, whenever there is a hair pulling child within a family, the entire family suffers.
To date, there is neither a medical cure for the disorder nor a clear scientific understanding of its causes. However, former hair puller, Abby Leora Rohrer has discovered concrete answers to the puzzle of why many children begin to compulsively pull their hair out and why many go on to become long-term adult hair pullers.
Author Abby Rohrer knows the pain of growing up with Trichotillomania firsthand. In Why Won’t My Child Stop Hair Pulling? The Inside Truth About Trichotillomania in Children and Teens, she includes a wealth of knowledge gleaned, not only from her personal history, but also from thousands of hair pulling children, adults and parents dealing with the disorder. At the age of 12, Rohrer began compulsively pulling her own hair out.
Her work, including the Pull-Free, At Last!™ Healing System, emerged from her personal experience of healing her own 27-year hair pulling compulsion. “I had tried a variety of therapies, human potential trainings, self-help books and much more, all to no avail. Then, one day, I gave up looking for outside answers and began to focus on my relationship with myself. I not only discovered a new me, but a natural system for healing. As a result, I have now been pull-free for over thirteen years,” explains Rohrer.
Through her techniques, Rohrer has taught others how to heal Trichotillomania, bulimia, compulsive overeating, chronic depression and more. Her work has delivered both results for her clients and praise from colleagues.
“Why Won’t My Child Stop Hair Pulling? is a triumph for hair pullers worldwide and their families. With wisdom and insight, Abby Rohrer tells the true inner tale of the hair pulling compulsion . . . Rohrer’s insights into hair pulling as an issue of relationship will empower so many who struggle desperately for freedom and for hope . . . and provides real skills and tools for hair pullers of all ages, and parents, to deal more effectively with their feelings, heal and move forward to live wonderful lives full of meaning and joy!” --Mary F. Zesiewicz, MD, Board Certified Psychiatrist, Adult, Adolescent, Child Psychiatry
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We act as if comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
It is important for parents of compulsive hairpullers to know the dangers of ingesting hair. For more information, go to my website at http://www.parentsofhairpullers.com/articles/swallowing.html
Many compulsive hairpullers have experienced a great deal of trauma and have use their hair pulling as a way to cope. To read further on this subject, go to my site at: http://www.parentsofhairpullers.com/articles/trauma.html
"It's always encouraging to me to see my clients heal, as they put more and more distance between themselves and the unhealthy people who have caused much destruction, pain, and anguish in their lives. As they learn how to strengthen their boundaries for safety and love. And as they begin to truly believe they are valuable, worthy people ... people deserving to be treated well, loved unconditionally, and respected as equals in all their relationships." --Mary Jo Fay
Mary Jo Fay is an expert on abusive and narcissistic relationships. Many of my hair pulling students have were raised in these types of relationships or find they have entered into them in their adult years. You can learn more about Mary Jo's work at www.outoftheboxx.com
My work has been featured in a Hairdressers Journal article, "Helping Clients with Trichotillomania." Follow this link to read it: www.parentsofhairpullers.com/articles/hairdressersjournal.pdf
I wanted to let you know about a wonderful, free e-newsletter by Dr. Alexandra Gayek on wellness and healing. You can sign up for it at: www.scienceofbeingwell.com
Anger has a way of focusing itself into something positive and creative. I found a way to use the inner anger that was part of my upbringing and my adult life. When I finally figured out how to deal with it, my anger gave me the power and the inner push to heal my compulsive hair pulling and other painful emotional patterns.
If you struggle with a painful behavioral addiction like trichotillomania, your anger will do the same for you if you let it.
“Only YOU can heal yourself. There is no cure because no one and nothing else can get inside your mind to root-out and correct your misperceptions about your own worth. You must grieve your losses, feel your anger, finish your feelings, have compassion for yourself and do the job of healing.” (Exerpt taken from page 7 of my "What's Wrong With Pulling My Hair Out?" e-book)
