Category Archives: Treatment

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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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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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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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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Do you want better answers?

June 29, 2011 – 3:22 pm

Yes, the fact is we DO need better treatments, more trained doctors and therapists, and much greater public awareness. Put simply, we need better answers for the millions of people suffering with hair pulling and skin picking disorders.     Do you agree? If so, we need YOU.  Please JOIN TLC. Together, we will advance research, [...]

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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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I have trichotillomania – so why am I not pulling?

September 17, 2010 – 8:51 pm

Dear world, It’s Friday night, I am tired and hot, bored and a bit distracted… so why am I not pulling? Or picking at my skin? Why has it been years since these behaviors engulfed my consciousness, controlled my worldview, defined my state of mind?  In some ways, they do still play a powerful role [...]

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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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