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If you are a young person and you pull out your hair, you are not alone. You and MILLIONS of other people have this condition called trichotillomania (trick-o-til-o-may-nee-ah). The average age people start pulling their hair is between 9 and 13, though people start much younger or older than that, too.

If you have "trich", you feel an uncontrollable urge to pull out hairs - from your head, eyebrows, eyelashes, or any other places you have hair. You may also play with, count or bite the hairs you pull. People of all ages have this problem and are affected by it to different degrees.

There are a lot of kids with trich out there, but that's not always obvious. Many people hide the results by wearing hats, make-up, or hair clips. There may be more people with trich than we know about.