Category Archives: Resources

The TLC Conference: One Med Student’s Review

January 19, 2012 – 12:33 pm

Note from TLC: The following post was written by Lisa Zakhary, who received the Medical Student Scholarship to the 2011 Conference on Hair Pulling and Skin Picking Disorders. In this essay, Dr. Zakhary relays her experience at the national conference. I am currently an outpatient psychiatrist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) [...]

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A Getting Started Guide for Parents

January 6, 2012 – 11:11 am

TLC’s Parent’s  Email Support Group is a fantastic resource for parents across the world. With over 1500 members, the email group (just one of several) provides support, advice and guidance for parents, from other parents. In response to a series of recent questions from group members, I posted the following info as a guide to [...]

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Call for Proposals: TLC Research Grant Program

November 1, 2011 – 11:56 am

About the Program TLC’s Research Grant Program is a donor-funded program designed to provide funding for seed projects. The goal is that these smaller projects, once completed, will garner interest from larger funding organizations. TLC will not fund any indirect costs. Please contact us if you would like more information. Eligible Research Programs Any research [...]

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Update: College, Pulling, Picking, Support from Maddie M

October 3, 2011 – 12:16 pm

Hello fellow trich-sters, Here I am, in college.  I feel so frustrated.  I thought I’d finally gotten control of my trichotillomania, being one-hundred-and-forty-something days pull-free, only to find the disorder manifesting in a new and unusual way. I started picking the skin on one little spot on the top of my head a month ago.  [...]

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Is Trich another bourgeois problem?

August 29, 2011 – 12:56 pm

One of TLC’s wonderful, amazing donors recently sent in a check with a short comment attached: “Keep up the good works!  PS: It seems like such a bourgeois problem–that is my challenge when thinking about it.” That unease about supporting Trich as a charitable cause struck a chord with me.  I could really relate to [...]

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Trich on My Mind

August 15, 2011 – 9:27 am

by Inez Asante From TLC: Another great post by a TLC Volunteer. if you have a personal story you’d like us to consider for the blog or our member newsletter, email leslie at (@) trich.org. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see so many different aspects of who you are, who you [...]

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Musings from Christina

August 8, 2011 – 3:19 pm

Happy Summer! I am growing my hair long. Why? It’s a personal quest to better understand the impact of all the treatment, strategies, and ongoing awareness practice I have put into place in my life. Yes, I want deeper cognition into my own recovery process. At the grand and amazing age of 54 (soon to [...]

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Speaking Out #Trichotillomania

August 4, 2011 – 9:49 am

Speaking Out #Trichotillomania.   Great post! Thank you for sharing and giving TLC a Shout Out!

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Trichsters Heading Off to College

July 28, 2011 – 9:02 am

Another great post form TLC’s Summer Intern, Maddie M. We’d love to hear from other trichsters heading off to college…share your thoughts below! -TLC   As a child I never got homesick.  Whenever I went to wilderness camp for the summer I never wanted to go home or asked for my parents. Now I’m going [...]

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A Call to Freedom

July 26, 2011 – 2:42 pm

New Personal essay up in Articles! Originally published in TLC’s quarterly newsletter, InTouch, (delivered to TLC members every four months), our friend Tina Miller, AKA Trich Whisperer, and group moderator for the popular facebook support group Learning2Live Pull-Free Private Network Page , wrote this poignant story of her own struggle and pursuit of freedom and [...]

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