Trichotillomania from the Greek trichós (hair) and mania (impulse) is the medical term that describes the irresistible need that children have to pull out their hair, in any area of the body, head, eyebrows, eyelashes, without a reason apparent. Why is it produced? What are the causes?
Category Mental disorders
While the diagnosis of specific learning disorders (mathematics, reading and spelling), as well as behavior, language and attention disorders (ADHD) are increasingly detected in time and are intervened, in the case of the so-called dyspraxia , their diagnoses are not usually precocious or attended early and, even, they are often confused and wrongly labeled under other diagnoses.
Most children with selective mutism tend to be like any other child their age. So they behave like them when they are in an environment that they do not perceive as dangerous. That is, when they are at home or familiar places, with people they know and with whom they feel comfortable and protected, they are communicative, funny and playful.
Trichotillomania from the Greek trichós (hair) and mania (impulse) is the medical term that describes the irresistible need that children have to pull out their hair, in any area of the body, head, eyebrows, eyelashes, without a reason apparent. Why is it produced? What are the causes?