Category Archives: skin picking

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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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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Action Needed: Feedback needed on DSM-V Revisions

June 7, 2011 – 11:45 am

The Task Force undertaking the revision of the The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has made the current draft revisions available for public comment until June 15, 2011.  Christina and I urge you to take a few minutes to voice your opinions to the DSM-V Task Force about the current draft of proposed [...]

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Retreat Reflections by Jennifer Raikes

May 26, 2011 – 12:56 pm

A quick note from TLC: What was formerly “Christina’s Blog” is now the “TLC Blog.” This new format will provide a forum for TLC staff, Board and Scientific Advisory Board Members to share organizational news, treatment and research updates, and reader-submitted essays. Don’t worry, Christina will still continue to share her thoughts and musings on [...]

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Recovery from hair pulling and skin picking

September 3, 2010 – 3:11 pm

Hmmm… Sometimes I wonder who reads these posts. What I do know is it is interesting for me to consider what I want to write about, as this blog is connected to TLC’s website. What I mean by this is that I feel like I have a responsibility to share at a level of support [...]

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Next week’s TLC Retreat

July 8, 2010 – 4:59 pm

Dear Ones, I do not really even know what I want to say, except I hope you come to next week’s TLC Retreat in Maryland.  This is an event that has become a pivotal point in my year, and I would have to also say, my life. Before I even started TLC, but had met [...]

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