Trichotillomania Self-Check: Are Your Emotional Habits a Factor?
This educational self-check examines nine general emotional habits that may be relevant before or around hair pulling, such as tension build-up, difficulty allowing urges, and seeking rapid relief. It does not measure hair-pulling behavior itself.
How these habits may appear in this context
- Treating an urge or uneven sensation as something that cannot be left alone.
- Allowing tension to build while healthy release and satisfying activity decrease.
- Relying on immediate relief without noticing the emotional sequence that came first.
What this self-check does not assessIt does not measure hair-pulling frequency, urges, hair loss, skin damage, attempts to stop, medical complications, impairment, or diagnostic criteria.
Emotional Habits Self-Check
Please answer the following questions about the past week.
Your emotional-habits score
What the result means in this context
Emotional build-up, low tolerance for an urge, and rapid relief-seeking can become part of a repeated sequence around hair pulling. Your emotional-habits score reflects broad habits that may occur in that sequence; it is not a trichotillomania score.
The free mini-course explains the measured habits—including emotional build-up, discomfort responses, and healthy release—and introduces alternatives for practicing them.
If hair pulling causes hair loss, skin injury, infection risk, shame, or interference with daily life, consider a licensed professional experienced with body-focused repetitive behaviors and appropriate medical care for physical injury.
Emotional habits around hair pulling
This self-check focuses on emotional habits that may surround an urge-and-relief sequence. It cannot determine whether hair pulling meets criteria for trichotillomania and does not replace assessment of the behavior, physical effects, or functional impact.