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How
to Stop Hair Pulling With Hypnosis
Stress
caused by the day-to-day issues of home life and work can bring
people to their breaking point. Many people struggle with the
feeling of wanting to pull out their hair. Problems arise however
when you reach the point where you actually do pull your hair
out. The actual scientific word for hair pulling is trichotillomania. French
dermatologist Hallopeau created the term in 1989 when he saw
the results of hair pulling in his patients. The Trichotillomania
Learning Center estimates that there are between 6 and 8 million
Americans struggle with trichotillomania.
How
To Know That You Suffer From Trichotillomania
So,
if you have pulled your hair out in the past, how do you know
for sure whether or not you have trichotillomania? DSM-IV, or
the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric
Association, offers five different symptoms of the disease.
The
first is pulling out your hair repeatedly, leading to “noticeable”
hair loss.
The next is a feeling of tension right before
pulling out your hair or when in you “attempt to resist the
behavior.”
Third is a feeling of pleasure, or relief.
The next two can be summed up in the following: the “disturbance”
is not “better accounted for” by either a medical condition,
such as a dermatological condition or another “mental disorder,”
and in addition the “disturbance causes impairment in social,
occupational, or other important areas of functioning.”
What
You Should Know
There
are several things that you need to know if you are struggling
with this disorder. The first is that as mentioned above there
are at least six to eight million other people going through
the same thing. You are not alone. In addition, you need to
understand trichotillomania. The Mayo Clinic offers that trichotillomania
is not something that you choose to do. The hair pulling urge
that you often feel, is very hard to overcome, so do not judge
yourself for these feelings. Beware of how you approach your
trichotillomania. Many people fall into a depression because
of their trichotillomania. This with the combined physical traumas
that your body goes through creates a problem that needs to
be corrected.
How
Does Hypnosis Work?
If
you are dealing with trichotillomania, you need to get help. Hypnosis
should definitely be considered. So how does it work? Contrary
to popular belief, hypnosis does not equate to your eyes spinning
in your head as a result or being put into a numb state by a
dark figure. Instead, it is a process of tapping into your subconscious.
What is your subconscious? It is the section of your brain that
deals with the automatic actions you do throughout the day.
Starting your car or taking a shower, for instance, have become
immediate parts of us that do not require conscious thought.
In
the normal day to day, you exist in your conscious brain, thinking
through problems as they arise. When you sleep, your subconscious
is allowed to reign. The process relaxes and subdues the conscious
portion of your brain, allowing your subconscious portion to
come forward.
While counseling may change behavior on
a conscious level, hypnosis works to change the subconscious
level. With a hypnotist, you will work to equate hair pulling
with something negative, like nausea and when you feel the urge
to pull out your hair, the negative will help you avoid it.
Break
your hair
pulling habit with a self-help download
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