What is a really interesting psychological disorder?

[PotterWatch]

How about trichophagia? Kind of a form of pica but it is specifically hair-eating.

 

[redhen]

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My foster son has that! we have to keep his hair shaved very short so he cant pull it out...i dont know if he eats it...but he pulls it out if he gets stressed inside.

 

[warhorse]

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My foster son has that! we have to keep his hair shaved very short so he cant pull it out...i dont know if he eats it...but he pulls it out if he gets stressed inside.

I think trichotillomania is hair pulling.

 

[redhen]

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My foster son has that! we have to keep his hair shaved very short so he cant pull it out...i dont know if he eats it...but he pulls it out if he gets stressed inside.

I think trichotillomania is hair pulling.

thats it! thanks! i knew it was Tricho..something!..

hes going to be 18 this month..hes been here for 2 years now. and i guess before he came here he did it very badly... and so now one of the coping things he has learned is to keep his hair very short...he even bought a pair of hair clippers for himself.

 

[Picklestix7866]

Just so ya'll know I picked Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Thanks for all who helped!

 

[TriciaHowe]

Didn't read through all the posts so forgive me if it was already said but I find hoarders(pack rats) to be fascinating. You know that kind that they find squished under 50 yrs worth of newspapers or has 300 cats in a 1 bedroom house.....
Dr. Phil did some shows on people like that.

Opps, sorry I just saw that you picked a topic. Good choice

 

[JennsPeeps]

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My foster son has that! we have to keep his hair shaved very short so he cant pull it out...i dont know if he eats it...but he pulls it out if he gets stressed inside.

I think trichotillomania is hair pulling.

Warhorse is right. I got my Master's degree in counseling and one of my fav classes was the abnormal psych class where we pretty much went through everything in the DSM. Way cool. I wrote about trichotillomania and there are some really interesting cases out there, plus lots of different ways it manifests: which hair is pulled out; methods for pulling it out; what the person does with it; how the person quits; etc.

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One case study I read involved a woman who would pull out her hair on her head until she got one with a root bulb still attached. When she could pop a hair shaft root bulb between her teeth she would stop that hair-pulling session.

Personally, I believe that many forms of mental health disease involve obsessive compulsiveness to some extent. If I were ever to pursue a PhD, I would study OC disorders.

 

[NancyDz]

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Excellent! I suffered from that... if you are including treatments make sure you include

EMDR- that's what finally worked for me.


Here's a link on it:

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/emdr_therapy.htm

 

[realmofthewoodsranch]

I'm afraid of alot of things that make no sense to me at all. I'm afraid of being lost, drowning, flying, being on a ladder (but not afraid od heights, eerily), being hurt by the beggars on the street (I have to lock my car doors, even if I'm moving at more than 5 mph), being attacked by ANYONE when I'm alone in public, I feel paranoid, and I have panic attacks but I not if I'm with someone.
I can't go t othe gym alone, but I can go to the pet store as long as I have my dog with me.
I'm at my wit's end and I feel like my life is falling apart at times, but I'm in treatment right now and they gave me some medications, but since I'm getting out of the military, I'm afraid to take them 'cause I might not be able to take them once I get out, since I don't have medical coverage.
I'm scared and I do'nt want to be!

I used to be normal.

 

[Funky Feathers]

Here's 2 good ones for ya: 1) Mental Divergence (going somewhere else in your head when you don't like where you are, going to alternate universes, etc...
2) Food Deprivation Anxiety Disorder (I started a Yahoo group on that one. I suffer from both of these. Anybody want to join my group?