Hair jerk addiction syndrome

Hair jerk addiction syndrome's disease overview

Hair Art Addiction syndrome has the scientific name of trichotillomania is a form of impulse control disorder. In this syndrome, the patient is forced to frequent hair or hair out of areas such as scalp, eyebrows and eyelashes. Although people with this disease know the consequences, they still cannot control themselves. When you feel depressed, the patient will snatch his hair to soothe himself. As a result, people with baldness and this condition will affect the appearance and ability to work.

Hair jerking syndrome is a psychological disorder affecting 1–2% of the world's population. The disease is found in both men and women but in children more often, especially their age before school and adolescence, puberty. The greater the age, the disease is more common in girls in boys.

The level of hair jerky depends from time to time but the sign of diagnosing a person with a hair jerky addiction syndrome includes: hair loss, unable to control himself to perform hair damage causing much trouble. significantly.

Hair jerking syndrome can lead to consequences such as infection, skin damage and permanent hair loss. Hair loss and skin damage can lead to self -respect and images. In extreme cases, some people can avoid social communication to hide hair loss.

Causes of Hair jerk addiction syndrome's disease

The exact cause of hair jerky addiction syndrome is still unknown. However, the disease may be caused by abnormalities in the brain related to emotional control area, exercise, formation of habits and pulse control.

Hair jerk addiction syndrome may occur for the following reasons:

Due to psychological disorders: Overtoding depression or bipolar disorder

Genetic: gene mutations

Due to frequent anxiety: accounting for 84% of the causes of hair jerky addiction syndrome. The more worried, the more serious and more often. In some cases, hair jerking helps to soothe emotions, making the patient feel more comfortable.

Due to stress or pressure: when a person is worried, the pressure on the body will increase. The feeling of pain when pulling hair can help reduce stress.

Due to unconsciousness or loss of control: Anxiety causes the body to lose control of cognitive behavior, so the impulse control mechanism does not work effectively. Not everyone performs hair jerks consciously. Many cases are due to unconscious habits and even the sick person does not know what is going on.

Symptoms of Hair jerk addiction syndrome's disease

Most people who have this disease only jerky when they are alone and often do not let others know they have the disease.

Common symptoms include:

Continuous hair jerking from the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes and other parts of the body

Patients cannot stop himself from jerking his hair

Patients feel happier and more comfortable after jerking hair

Shorter, thinner hair, appearing bald area on the scalp or other areas of the body, including thin eyelashes or lack of eyebrows

Patients with stress or mental problems at work or life due to hair jerks

Patients have some strange behaviors such as checking hair roots, rotating hair, hairpin between teeth, chewing hair or eating hair.

Most addicts of hair jerks often pull the skin, bite nails or bite lips.

Pet hair, dolls or porous materials such as clothes or blankets are also one of the signs of the disease.

Feeling troublesome and difficult at work, life due to hair jerking habits. Patients often feel ashamed and hide their illness by wearing hats, wearing scarves and wearing fake eyelashes.

Patients can be aware or do not know their behavior. Hair jerk symptoms usually take place when the patient is performing other activities such as watching TV, reading, studying, talking on the phone.

Children often jerk their hair in places that are easy to reach and on the side of Thuan's hand. The most common location is the forehead and the top of the head. In addition, there are other signs such as scratches, bruises or red skin. If the hair follicle lesions, repetitive, can leave no recovery scars.

The complications of hair jerks are local skin infections, lash inflammation, chronic pain, wrist tunnel syndrome.

People at risk for Hair jerk addiction syndrome's disease

There are many factors that increase the risk of hair jerky addiction syndrome such as:

Families with relatives with hair jerky syndrome.

Age: Hair jerk addiction is common in patients before or during puberty, usually about 11-13 years old and can become a prolonged problem. Babies can also be susceptible to disease, but usually mild and can go away on their own without treatment.

Negative emotions: For many people, pulling hair is to deal with negative or uncomfortable emotions such as anxiety, stress, loneliness, fatigue or fatigue Disappointed.

Positive feeling: The patient feels jerking hair to help bring a sense of satisfaction, so continue to snatch hair to maintain those positive emotions.

Other disorders: Patients can also suffer from other disorders such as depression, anxiety, and obsession (OCD).

Prevention of Hair jerk addiction syndrome's disease

Symptoms of the disease are spontaneous and there is no way to prevent this disease. However, patients need to control potential behaviors and treat the disease as soon as they have symptoms. In addition, patients need to learn how to manage stress to help avoid hair jerks later.

Diagnostic measures for Hair jerk addiction syndrome's disease

The doctor will diagnose hair jerky syndrome by:

Check the loss of hair loss

Discuss on hair loss and find the cause

eliminate the causes of hair jerks or hair loss through clinical tests

Standard for diagnosis of hairkeeping syndrome includes:

Appearing the behavior of hair and hair on the body accompanied by urge or stressful feeling before jerking hair

Hair jerks bring satisfaction and relief

Feeling less "itchy" when jerking hair

Feeling exhausted and tired of work and society

Testing that can be done to help diagnose hair jerk addiction syndrome including:

Test of negative hair jerks

Soi under the Wood lights do not see signs of fungal infection

Scalp under the skin lights can be seen: reducing the density of hair, broken hair with different lengths, the ends of the hair split, with hairmeal, hair strands, hair strands Short silk

Pictures of pathological tissue shows that the hair in the development stage (catagen), the hair is nourished, the dermis is not inflamed or only mild inflammation, the hairs are broken, the hair is broken, Hair follicles have nodes that are essentially debris of horns, melanin

Hair jerk addiction syndrome's disease treatments

Some people with mild illness can be controlled but there are many people who cannot control the desire to pull the hair.

Hair jerk addiction syndrome is a chronic disease, but today, there have been many effective measures to treat and control this syndrome. Some treatments have helped many patients reduce hair shock and can cure completely include:

Psychotherapy to change hair behavior: is the most effective method in treating this disease.

With this method, the patient will first learn how to determine the specific time and the location that the patient wants to jerk the hair.

Patients will also learn how to relax and participate in a number of activities to help reduce stress when there is a desire for hair jerky.

Patients can combine these exercises with emotional support exercises.

The doctor will prescribe the drug (selective Serotonin re -absorption inhibitors) used in the treatment of other psychological disorders such as depression and murdering disorders ( OCD) to treat hair jerks.

Holding hands: Many people have a habit of jerking their hair when their hands are not working or in a state of relaxation. Therefore, patients are advised to grasp or not stretch their hands often using hair to limit hair jerks.

Practice positive thoughts: negative thoughts about yourself can lead to hair jerks due to psychological anxiety and stress. Treatment therapy can also focus on resolving thoughts that are not beneficial, improving self -esteem and confidence to reduce the urge of hair jerks.

Need education, psychological counseling for patients with hair jerks. In children, they need the help of parents: cut short hair close to the scalp, carry gloves, gently remind the behavior when seeing children jerky.

In young children, hair shock is usually benign and can be limited, all themselves. In adolescents and in adults, the disease tends to be chronic, related to many other psychological disorders.

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