Nov
27
2017
Emily Bruce first started pulling clumps of her own hair out at the age of 16, but she never admitted it to anyone until she was 25.
She managed to keep her chronic hair pulling a secret from family and...
Oct
09
2016
Angela Habeshis, 55, started tugging out handfuls of her thick, brown hair when she was a girl - it took decades for her to admit to her family she had a problem...
Growing up, Angela never really paid much attention...
Oct
11
2015
bt.com 2nd Oct 2015
We meet Ruth Walters, who has suffered from TTM for 10 years but has been given the chance to have a full head of hair again.
You might never have heard of it but 3% of the...
Oct
11
2015
Irish Examiner, Saturday, October 03, 2015
For most people the idea of pulling your own hair out is very difficult to comprehend, but Trichotillomania (TTM) is a compulsive condition that affects 110 million people worldwide.
We met Natalie Blythe, 32, who...
Oct
11
2015
By Sarah Barns For Mailonline
Rebecca Germaine was diagnosed with Trichotillomania at the age of 13
The 26-year-old was bullied and had to wear a wig to hide her bald patches
Tim Huetson bought The Intralace System so she couldn't pick at...
Oct
11
2015
BBC Newsbeat- 1st Oct 2015
Pulling out hair from your head, eyebrows or eyelashes is obviously painful and leaves bald patches.
But it's a condition which is thought to affect more than 100,000 under-35s in the UK.
It can be caused by...
Jul
24
2015
In honor of "No-pull week," one young woman shares her story of struggling to overcome the compulsion to pull out her hair.
It started with an eyelash: there was something in my eye so I twisted and lightly pulled my...
Oct
07
2014
Phoebe Ottomar spent years tugging at her hair
Left with golf ball sized bald patches but GPs didn't know what was wrong
Mother read about trichotillomania in magazine
Lucinda Ellery used the Intralace System on her to give her hair of...
Oct
06
2014
IT IS a condition that affects almost a million women in Britain, however it is still not fully understood by doctors and is considered quite taboo. One woman shares her battle with the secret syndrome.
Sitting at her desk, Katie...
Oct
02
2014
19-year-old Phoebe Ottomar suffered with trichotillomania for nearly a decade before she was able to overcome it. Here is her story, in honour of International No Pulling Week, 1-7 October.
"The first time I pulled a hair out was when...