FARGO - When Sandra Bodek was a little girl, she plucked the eyelashes from her dolls. By the time she was 9, she was plucking her own. Her hair-pulling moved to her scalp around age 10. Bodek, 36, of ...
Teenagers (and occasionally younger children) can develop a habit of pulling their hair from their scalp, eyebrows, or eyelashes. This habit is known medically as trichotillomania and sometimes called ...
Trichotillomania has been gaining more awareness in recent times, thanks to the efforts of organizations such as the Body Focused Repetitive Behavior Foundation. Formerly known as the Trichotillomania ...