Trichotillomania in adults can be frustrating.
The hair loss alone is stressful enough as it is.
The way things have gone along an adult's life after suffering from this condition for so long can seem inescapable, as any hope for a cure is usually met with pessimism, since it's been suffered for so long so far.
But the fact is that trichotillomania in adults is just as treatable, even curable, as it is with younger people.
Adults with this condition may feel that there just isn't any hope, due to the fact that any and all previous attempts to treat this condition, has been with the use of now out-dated therapies.
True enough, such brands of therapy have been conjured up long before we had the education in this condition that we do today, but trichotillomania in adults has become a past memory for a vast many.
It used to be (and even presently this still persists to some degree) that "trich" was treated just the same way as an obsessive compulsive disorder ("OCD").
Utilizing the same drugs to treat OCD, these were used to treat trichotilllomania in adults and in children, using antidepressant drugs with serotonergic properties (such as with Cloropramine, also called Anafranil).
Today, more behaviorally based therapies are in use, and with insurmountably high success rates.
Especially successful are of the type known as "behavioral substitution", or "behavioral replacement" therapies.
These actually provide a means for patients to educate themselves further on their conditions while they benefit from them.
Many have changed from drug therapies over to the more behaviorally base therapies as a result of the successes that are had by thousands of sufferers, even with cases of trichotillomania in adults.
The hair loss alone is stressful enough as it is.
The way things have gone along an adult's life after suffering from this condition for so long can seem inescapable, as any hope for a cure is usually met with pessimism, since it's been suffered for so long so far.
But the fact is that trichotillomania in adults is just as treatable, even curable, as it is with younger people.
Adults with this condition may feel that there just isn't any hope, due to the fact that any and all previous attempts to treat this condition, has been with the use of now out-dated therapies.
True enough, such brands of therapy have been conjured up long before we had the education in this condition that we do today, but trichotillomania in adults has become a past memory for a vast many.
It used to be (and even presently this still persists to some degree) that "trich" was treated just the same way as an obsessive compulsive disorder ("OCD").
Utilizing the same drugs to treat OCD, these were used to treat trichotilllomania in adults and in children, using antidepressant drugs with serotonergic properties (such as with Cloropramine, also called Anafranil).
Today, more behaviorally based therapies are in use, and with insurmountably high success rates.
Especially successful are of the type known as "behavioral substitution", or "behavioral replacement" therapies.
These actually provide a means for patients to educate themselves further on their conditions while they benefit from them.
Many have changed from drug therapies over to the more behaviorally base therapies as a result of the successes that are had by thousands of sufferers, even with cases of trichotillomania in adults.