Trichotillomania

Trichotilomania (disorder pulling hair out)

What can you do about it?

Giving yourself a reason that is more exciting than pulling your hair out can be the answer long term. What we found is that the compulsiveness plus the additional consistency of pulling at the same spot on the scalp will cause long term damage to the follicle becomes irreparable. See solutions https://www.indulgesalon.com/natural-hair-extensions

Is it a personality disorder?

No its not a personality disorder. Everyday women and men just have this compulsion to pull or tug on the hair that can start at a young age leading into adulthood.  I find that individuals don’t like it but they have to deal with the embarrassment of not having hair, some are have actually lost the hair in areas that are obvious.

Signs and symptoms of trichotillomania often include:

• Repeatedly pulling your hair out, typically from your scalp, eyebrows or eyelashes, but can be from other body areas, and sites may vary over time
• An increasing sense of tension before pulling, or when you try to resist pulling
• A sense of pleasure or relief after the hair is pulled
• Shortened hair or thinned or bald areas on the scalp or other areas of your body, including sparse or missing eyelashes or eyebrows
• Preference for specific types of hair, rituals that accompany hair pulling or patterns of hair pulling
• Biting, chewing or eating pulled-out hair
• Playing with pulled-out hair or rubbing it across your lips or face

Most people who have trichotillomania also will pick their skin, bite their nails or chew their lips. Sometimes pulling hairs from pets or dolls or from materials, such as clothes or blankets, may be a sign. Most people with trichotillomania pull hair in private and generally try to hide the disorder from others.

For people with trichotillomania, hair pulling can be:

trichotillomania back view

• Focused. Some people pull their hair intentionally to relieve tension or distress — for example, pulling hair out to get relief from the overwhelming urge to pull hair. Some people may develop elaborate rituals for pulling hair, such as finding just the right hair or biting pulled hairs.
• Automatic. Some people pull their hair without even realizing they’re doing it, such as when they’re bored, reading or watching TV.

The same person may do both focused and automatic hair pulling, depending on the situation and mood. Certain positions or rituals may trigger hair pulling, such as resting your head on your hand or brushing your hair. Trichotillomania is a long-term (chronic) disorder. Without treatment, symptoms can vary in severity over time. For example, the hormonal changes of menstruation can worsen symptoms in women. For some people, if not treated, symptoms can come and go for weeks, months or years at a time. Rarely, hair pulling ends within a few years of starting.

Solutions for Trichotillomania (pulling your hair out)

• Think about your triggers that increase the pulling out and change up your routine to “replace” the habit such as getting busy with something else as soon as you realize what you are doing.
• Make an appointment with Kimberly, the owner, at Indulge Salon, York, Pa to discuss your options of hair coloring which increases the thickness of your existing hair.
• discuss various types of hair extension options such as tape-in extensions, Dream catchers clamp extensions that attach to your natural hair, fusion type that adhere with a hot resin that will give you more hair per strand making your hair feel thickner and lastly glue-in’s that are temporary but can be reused till your hair starts to grow out.
• Lastly, developing a new look in makeup, hair design to compliment your faceshape and lifestyle.

At Indulge Salon, we will help you find a solution to create a look for you with hair extensions of some sort. We will consult with you to find the most economical long term care solution. We will give you options on hair products to help you grow your hair out and goal set to help you achieve your goals with our help.

Here is the result of our client. I want to thank her for her bravery and courage to show these amazing photos before and after. I admire her and view this blog as my honoring her and other women like her in this situation. She is a confident woman, mother and wife that was able to attend a wedding that gave her the normal look that anyone at the wedding would not be able to tell. Here is what we did:

1. evaluated her color to make her hair look fuller and thicker.
2. recommended that she use Nioxin treatment.
3. highlighted her hair wefts and did a glued in hair extension on the top of her head.  I didn’t keep the wefts open, we closed the gap to make it look like she had a part. Looked natural.
4. attached some fusion pieces to see how they would hold up to give her thickness (not an inexpensive process but great for chemotherapy type of grow outs or Trichotillomania)
5. discussed maintenance.

Results:

placing glued in weft hair extensions amongst new hair growth. Discussing placement

client AFTER with highlighted and lowlighted glued in hair weft hair extensions

AFTER highlighted glued in hair extensions

Frizzy curly hair magically turned into a manageable hairstyle with Brazilian Blowout!

9 year old can now style her hair by herself

Our special client Grace came in for some special treatment today. It’s a few days before her first day of 4th grade at Dallastown middle school in Dallastown, Pa. Remember how you were on your first day? Concerned what you look like, what you are going to wear, meeting new people, etc. Our new friend Grace has naturally frizzy curly unruly hair that was very hard to manage.

When I met Grace, she was hanging out in the waiting room for her step mom. I said to her step mom who is really an amazing person, that I could help her daughter with managing her curly frizzy  hair. She took us up on that offer.

Today was no different for our new friend Grace. She came in with

BEFORE – frizzy curl hair

frizzy curl hair that was recently cut short at another salon. She was afraid of the flat iron based on a previus experience at home. Like many of us at some point, the curling or flat iron got a little close to the skin and bam, a little burning experience. We have all been there. She was nervous, afraid, and not sure if this was going to work for her because she told us she liked her curls and was not sure about the flat iron heat close to her scalp. We understood.

Her stylist Alex T spent some time explaining the process of our Brazilian Blowout Keratin Treatment. Alex talked about the benefits of the amino acids that actually protect the outside layer of the hair along with protecting the inside of the hair. She explained that the Brazilian Blowout is safe plus it would make her hair feel silky soft. Grace allowed us the opportunity to perform the service on her bangs and along the side of her face where she was super curly in addition to being frizzy. Once her bangs were smoothed and straightened, Grace was all in for the rest of her hair. Check out the photos of the before and after of today’s hair transformation form frizzy curly rebellious hair to smooth and silky manageable hair.

At Indulge Salon, York Pa or Greensboro, Ga, we will always take the time to explain the pro’s and con’s of having your hair straightened with the Brazilian Blowout treatments. These Keratin treatments truly are a miracle for the frizziest, curliest types of coarse hair. But did you know that these treatments can be used on baby fine hair to thicken the actual strand? Yes, we do. Fine hair can just blow around causing the person to be self conscious. Our Brazilian Blowout Keratin treatment can be used the following ways:

AFTER Brazilian Blowout Keratin Treatment

• to reduce bulk to the hair
• defrizz the thick coarser textures of hair
• make fine hair thicker instantle
• smooth curly frizzy hair from any lengths

After receiving a brazilian blowout keratin treatment, the hair texture changes because the cuticle (outside layer of the hair) has a smoother texture. Just as our special client Grace has to learn to how to manage her new style with different brush sizes, products to make it fuller in some areas or how to blow dry the style in general.

We offer blow dry workshops that are 30 minutes in length to help teach someone how to style their hair. As you can see how happy our client Grace is with her new hairstyle that is smooth and non frizzy. We wish you the best at school this year!

Learning how to manage her own hairstyle.

AFTER brazilian blowout Keratin treatment

Does the full moon affect human behavior?

My colleagues and I have been tracking the “weirdness” that brings out the best of them around this time. I said to my coworkers today, “hey, can you check the full moon schedule? It feels a little off in here today with the way people are acting.”

Sure enough, spot on with the feeling. Big ole’ moon blinking out at me tonight. After today, I just don’t know what to say. Do you remember that movie called Impulse? If you don’t, here is how it goes. the actors were able to do whatever they wanted whenever they wanted without the reprecussions of their behavior. Behavior such as plowing into someone’s car because you didn’t like their driving. Another is yelling at someone without filter, just irrational non thinking behavior, impulsive.

This is what we had to manage in our day today. People just don’t think about how they act in front of others. It doesn’t matter what age, its just agressive, non mannerly people trying to push others around to get their way, no manners interrupting while others talk, I mean peoples’ behaviors hit an all time high today.

All I”m saying is there is truth to the moon situation that the natural elements cause people to act not so normal. Crazy “loco” is the word I would use today.

I need all of us to remember that we as human beings are not computers per se. We all have feelings, we all strive to be our best (well, most of us), we all work together in this big world to make it better. I was projecting there. We need to be patient and respectful of others’ property, respectful of feelings, respect means you just buy or take things that aren’t yours without expecting some kind of fall out from the person that you are taking from.

Whatever happened to giving without expecting anything in return? Whatever happened to helping someone without expecting someone in return? How about making your little part of the world better for the next person coming in after you? Truly, we should expect the best for ourselves while knowing we made it easier for someone else today.

Patience is a gift that you give yourself and others. Kindness is about actually caring about another person instead of always thinking of whats in it for me. What you put out there is what comes back to you tenfold. Being honest is also a characteristic that is admired these days. Can I just say that I’ve run into many people who blantantly lie to my face and they believe their lies! I cannot participate with people like this. I was always taught to treat others better than you treat yourself. I adhered to that rule in our family.