Familial Trichotillomania Responding to SSRIs
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Trichotillomania is term used to denote an irresistible urge to pull one’s own hair. It is classified under ‘Habit and Impulse Disorders’. There are few reports of familial occurrence of trichotillomania but none on response to the same SSRI among family members afflicted with trichotillomania. We present a young girl with trichotillomania, who had a family history in her mother. Both responded to fluoxetine. The patient also received two different SSRIs, fluoxetine as well as escitalopram at different times and responded to both of them (German J Psychiatry 2013; 16(1): 51-53).
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