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What is Trichotillomania?
What is Trichotillomania?
- Trichotillomania: A mental disorder where a person feels compelled to pull out their own hair.
- Trichotillomania: Compulsion to pull out one's hair.
Source - Diseases Database - Trichotillomania: an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Trichotillomania is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Trichotillomania, or a subtype of Trichotillomania,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Trichotillomania: Introduction
Types of Trichotillomania:
Broader types of Trichotillomania:
How serious is Trichotillomania?
Complications of Trichotillomania:
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What causes Trichotillomania?
Causes of Trichotillomania: see causes of Trichotillomania
What are the symptoms of Trichotillomania?
Symptoms of Trichotillomania: see symptoms of Trichotillomania
Complications of Trichotillomania: see complications of Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Trichotillomania.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Trichotillomania.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Trichotillomania:
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Research for Trichotillomania:
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Hospitalization statistics for Trichotillomania:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Trichotillomania:
- 0.0001% (10) of hospital consultant episodes were for trichotillomania in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 91% of hospital consultant episodes for trichotillomania required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 57% of hospital consultant episodes for trichotillomania were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 43% of hospital consultant episodes for trichotillomania were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 76% of hospital consultant episodes for trichotillomania required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 9.7 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for trichotillomania in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Name and Aliases of Trichotillomania
Main name of condition: Trichotillomania
Other names or spellings for Trichotillomania:compulsive hair pulling
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