Hair loss may occur due to severe stress or psychological disorders. It is difficult to control hair loss, and sometimes it requires medical intervention.
Stress increases the severity of hair loss as a trigger, especially if combined with specified factors. Habits such as the person twirling their hair unknowingly and continually scratching the same point on the scalp are indications of stress. Although they cause hair loss problems, often psychiatric intervention is necessary in these cases firstly.
Lowering stress levels can be a solution to increasing hair loss problems. In other words, it is necessary to try to overcome stress to treat hair loss. It should not be forgotten that we shed an average of 50 to 150 strands of hair every day. Therefore, you should not worry about this type of hair shedding. However, shedding or pulling out more than that number is alarming.
Some obsessive disorders may lead to hair loss to some extent. OCD and trichotillomania are among these disorders that may cause partial hair loss.
OCD and Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania is a chronic disease. Anxiety or OCD usually cause this. Patients constantly pull their hair out to relieve tension. Increased stress triggers the condition. Also, it leads to different amounts of hair loss. It negatively affects one’s quality of life. Although you may not have heard of it, it is a widespread disorder.
OCD and trichotillomania have been commonly talked about in the same contexts. The high rate of trichotillomania in OCD patients supports this.
Patients that have OCD and trichotillomania usually get a sense of pleasure and relaxation after pulling out their hair. They also feel sadness and guilt right after. It is very common to see other psychiatric disorders, along with trichotillomania and OCD. It may accompany some disorders, such as the following:
- Emotional state disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Addiction disorders
In the family history of patients with trichotillomania disorder, high rates of OCD and other impulse-control disorders may be present too.
The disease begins in adolescence or young adulthood. Most people pull out hair strands from the scalp first. Then eyebrows and eyelashes follow the scalp. Some patients even bite the hair strands or swallow them.
When the hair-pulling becomes excessive, people seek professional help. This is to address the hair loss problems associated with hair-pulling.
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