Trichodaganomania: The compulsive habit of biting one's own hair

Jafferany, Mohammad; Feng, Jing; Hornung, Robin L.

doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2008.07.055

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“…Trichodaganomania is also mentioned in the literature and is associated with psychiatric disorders. It is a compulsive habit of biting one's own hair; however, there is no hair loss on the scalp [11].…”

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Three adolescent cases of a very rare disorder: Trichotemnomania

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Ateş²,

Nasıroğlu

et al. 2018

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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Trichotemnomania (TT) is characterized as the cutting or shaving of hair, which is an obsessivecompulsive habit. TT takes its name from a fusion of Greek words: thrix (hair), temnein (to cut), and mania (madness). TT is a very rare disease with only five case studies reported in the literature and to the best of our knowledge; no data are available on adolescents. This study focuses on three cases of adolescents with TT. All patients have been evaluated by a dermatologist and two child and adolescent psychiatrists. Dermatological examinations included medical history, physical examination, dermoscopy assessment, and laboratory investigations. Detailed psychiatric assessments consisted of socio-demographic data, clinical history, semi-structured interviews, and psychometric tests. Three cases with TT were both diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Two of them diagnosed comorbid social anxiety disorder (in cases 1 and 2), and one case diagnosed with comorbid general anxiety disorder (in case 3) and agoraphobia (in case 3). Cases 1 and 2 were prescribed 50 mg/day of sertraline; however, case 3 refused the treatment. In conclusion, TT may be confused with trichotillomania or other disorders presented with alopecia. Differential diagnoses may be due to histopathological changes or dermoscopic assessment. Dermatologists should consider TT when a supposed alopecia areata looks somewhat unusual and should refer these patients for psychiatric evaluation.

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Three adolescent cases of a very rare disorder: Trichotemnomania

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Ateş²,

Nasıroğlu

et al. 2018

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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“…Another type of hair loss with associated psychiatric comorbidity is trichodaganomania (12), which is characterized by the compulsive habit of biting one's own hair. However, due to its intrinsic mechanism, the hair loss is not located on the head.…”

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Trichotemnomania: Hair Loss Mediated by a Compulsive Habit Not Admitted by Patients

Orgaz‐Molina¹,

Husein-Elahmed²,

Soriano-Hernández³

et al. 2012

Acta Derm Venerol

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“…Tanımlanan ilk olgunun gergin ve anksiyöz hissettiğinde kolundaki kılları ısırma isteği duyduğu ve trikotillomanideki gibi ısırmadan önce gerginlik ve ısırdıktan sonra rahatlama hissettiği bildirilmiş. Bu tablonun altında yatan psikopatolojinin OKB mi basmakalıp davranış bozukluğu mu yoksa bir tür trikotillomani mi olduğu ise belirsizdir 31 . Yukarıda tanımlanan psikiyatrik bozuklukların tümünde görünür dermatolojik lezyonlar (alopesi vb) bulunur.…”

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Hair loss related to primary psychiatric disorders

Fettahoğlu¹

2014

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Scalp hair has greater social and psychological importance than its' biological significance. In the hair disorder consultation services there are lots of patients who are often considered as "difficult" or "problematic", because of their biopsychosocial problems. When it's considered that the hair loss patients refer to the dermatology clinics in the first step, we can understand the importance of the awareness of the clinicians about the causal and/or consequential relationship between hair diseases and the psychological problems. In this paper, hair loss diseases that are related to primary psychiatric disorders are reviewed.

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Trichodaganomania: The compulsive habit of biting one's own hair

Cited by 23 publications

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Three adolescent cases of a very rare disorder: Trichotemnomania

Three adolescent cases of a very rare disorder: Trichotemnomania

Trichotemnomania: Hair Loss Mediated by a Compulsive Habit Not Admitted by Patients

Hair loss related to primary psychiatric disorders

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