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You’re a hero. Thank you.
When you take action, when you give, when you spread the word, you’re taking action against the stigma and shame cause by body-focused repetitive behaviors. And in 2015, you took more action than...
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Our response to the PsychCentral.com article: “Trichotillomania in Childhood...
To whom it may concern, The recent post on your website, Trichotillomania in Childhood and Adolescence: When Anxiety Becomes Self-Injury, is quite concerning. There are numerous factual inaccuracies...
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“I didn’t have to hide.”
“I think my childhood would have been very rough without TLC,” says Megan Malone-Brown, age 19. Just two months after young Megan Malone-Brown started pulling her eyelashes and hair, her mother found...
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Life would be lonely without TLC
“Life would be lonely without TLC and I would not have met many of my fellow trichsters,” Rosalina Castillo told us recently. Rosalina has been pulling since she was 7 years old and is a longtime TLC...
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“The second I turned 13 I became obsessed with body hair. “
Meet Teddy. “Coming up with excuses as to why my eyebrows were swollen and scabbed was difficult,” Teddy told us recently. The stark contrast between Teddy’s words above and her beautiful wedding...
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Did you make a New Year’s resolution about BFRBs? Here are 5 things that can...
Did you make a New Year’s resolution about hair pulling, skin picking, nail biting, or other BFRBs*? Here at TLC, we like to focus on positive changes we can make to reduce the impact of these...
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Rookie Researcher : Publish or Perish (Part 7 of 8)
There’s a movie that I really love called (500) Days of Summer – in this movie, an eccentric and guarded Zooey Deschanel claims that love is just a fantasy, while melodramatic and naive Joseph...
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Rookie Researcher : The Next Steps (part 8 of 8)
Once upon a time, a nineteen-year old girl sat in the glass-paned lobby of a skyscraper on 5th Avenue in Seattle, vigorously typing different combinations of search terms into Google Scholar and...
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Online Research Survey: BFRB Beauty Study
Researchers at Syracuse University are looking for women 18+ to participate in a study about how people with Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB’s) use cosmetics differently than the general...
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Volunteer for research! Online studies need your voice.
New Online Research Surveys Several local & online studies seek adult patient and parent volunteers As part of our mission to advance BFRB research, TLC helps connect researchers with study...
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