Trichotillomania in Depression - a Case Report*
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Trichotillomania one of the rare symptoms in psychiatry is defined as compulsive desire to pull out hair from one's scalp leading to baldness and sometimes involving eyelashes and eyebrows (Tiling, 1975) and not a disease entity. Many a time, patient eats pulled hair, thus usually associated with Trichobezoar (Aleksandrowiez and Mares, 1978). There is no specific age of its occurrence. It is commonly found in children (Stadeli, 1963) and in maladjusted females in age groups of teens to forty years (Home, 1977).
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