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[Rerun] Dr. Kirk and Paulette talk about hair pulling disorder

00:00 Intro

01:45 Trichotillomania & BFRB

16:08 What causes BFRB

18:01 Forms of treatment

21:18 Medications & side effects

23:53 Taking in those we love

26:01 CBT in a nutshell

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December 21, 2023

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Anonymous

Very insightful and more interesting than I was expecting. Really enjoy Paulette being on the podcast, I hope she is in future episodes!

Anonymous

I too suffer from a compulsion to pull hair. It’s definitely worse during times of stress and I do do it in order to provide myself some stress relief. Often I am spending over an hour just pulling out hairs one by one. It relaxes me and it allows me a time for introspection. I seem to be using this time as some kind of “me”time, as if I am pampering myself to a beauty treatment. Interestingly though, I do see the harm in what I am doing. I do choose to pull hairs I consider undesirable and so this behaviour has been justified by the fact that these are unwanted hairs. However, I am causing trauma to my skin and so I am aware that this is not ideal for hair removal or meditative efforts. I find hair pulling to be deeply pleasurable. The physical sensation, the sight of the hair that has just been plucked from the skin as well as the intense focus on a small area all seem to provide this tremendous satisfaction. What I am trying to get at is that it is not necessarily for self harm, it is like you mentioned scratching an itch (at times) I would say it depends on the location of the hair, but mostly it’s just very enjoyable, like a drug. Low self esteem does seem to follow however as it can be embarrassing to have self inflicted wounds