Article – Trichotillomania Resistant to Treatment

• Reuters – Hair pulling disorder resistant to treatment

Doctors in my field have been reluctant to take on patients with trichotillomania, because the condition is a compulsive disorder which stays, only to bring about recurrence of the hair loss. In many ways, trichotillomania is analogous to obesity, for when a person loses weight, if the cause of the eating disorder is not cured, the weight loss is bound to return.