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       tear out your hair?

Trichotillomania: Could stress be causing you to quite literally tear out
your hair?

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   | UPDATED: 11:46, Mon, Oct 3, 2016

   Stress
   GETTYExperts believe the condition can be brought on by stress or
   anxiety

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   They will experience an intense urge to pull their hair out and growing
   tension until they do - and many use it as a way of relieving stress or
   anxiety.

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   "I was sat in the library for my geography finals at Oxford, finishing
   a 1,500-word essay, and feeling the stress of competition and exam
   nerves, when I first pulled out a hair,” she said.