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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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Trichotillomania by proxy
Avinash De Sousa
Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Avinash De Sousa
Carmel, 18, St. Francis Road, Off S V Road, Santacruz West, Mumbai - 400 054, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0974-7753.153452
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Trichotillomania is a disorder of an impulsive hair pulling that occurs in both adults and children alike. Trichotillomania is seen in children and often has other psychiatric comorbidity. Here, we present an interesting case of a mother who had trichotillomania and recovered with treatment following which she resorted to pulling hair of her child and brought her child for treatment saying that the child too had trichotillomania and that we should help the child recover like her. After interviewing the child, it was revealed that it was, in fact, the mother who used to pull the child's hair as a release for her hair-pulling urges. |
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