Thank you very much for visiting the TLC web site. As a health-care or mental health professional, you play a critical role in our mission to increase awareness of TTM and to ensure that people with compulsive hair pulling have access to the most appropriate and effective treatments. The interest and participation of researchers and treatment providers is critical to the public's understanding of TTM as well as to sufferers' efforts to cope with this disorder. If you have experience treating TTM, we hope you will join our referral network of professionals (see form below).

A generation ago, TTM was not well understood in the medical and mental-health communities. Many adult hair-pullers remember being taken by their parents to scores of pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and dermatologists to find a solution to their compulsive hair pulling-only to be met with ignorance, disbelief, and even outright abuse by these professionals. Today, Information is available, and children need not be further shamed by their efforts to get help. By educating yourself about TTM and its treatments, you can help a new generation avoid the misunderstanding of years past.

In this section are links to numerous published articles on TTM, books, and Information on how you can become a member of TLC's referral network. We also hope that you will consider making a donation to TLC to support our outreach efforts.