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An 11 year-old girl in Mumbai, India was hospitalized with severe abdominal pain and doctors were forced to operate her. What they found inside her stomach was a foot long giant hair-ball. The mass of hair known as Trichobozear is a potentially fatal...
Tags: trichotillomania, impulse control disorder, hair eating, trich, mental illness, psychiatry, psychology
An 11-year-old girl in Mumbai, India, was hospitalized with pain in her stomach, and surgeons were forced to operate...And while the condition is not well known, American doctors say that it may afflict 1 percent of all Americans. "It's a fairly uncommon...
Tags: trichotillomania, psychiatry, psychology, trich