One of the TTM patients had gone through menopause with no effect on her hair-pulling symptoms.
Severity of hair-pulling symptoms was assessed with the Massachusetts General Hospital Hair-pulling Scale [ 23].
The NIMH-TSS ranges from 0 (no symptoms) to 25 (severe symptoms), and surveys time spent pulling in the past week, time spent pulling the previous day, resistance to pulling, associated distress, and functional impairment.
3 CD may be accompanied by pulling or stiffness, pain and sensory symptoms in the affected area.
The different domains of quality of life, including physical or social limitation and severe symptoms (i.e. severe pain and pulling of the uterus and the need for a pad or other supportive material) correlated significantly with all three stages.
The internet support groups were helpful in terms of learning about the symptoms and treatment of TTM, tips on how to decrease hair pulling, and in giving a name to their hair-pulling problem.
The slide in the labor market has become both symptom and cause of a weak economy, pulling many families into a downward spiral.
Screen time and technology are frequently an excessive draw for individuals with ADHD, pulling them away from healthier activities and potentially worsening ADHD symptoms.
Possible bias in the survey is compounded by the cross-sectional rather than longitudinal design; there may well be a disjunction between perceived increase or decrease in hair pulling during participation in the survey, and actual changes in symptoms.
Football organizations, from youth leagues to the NFL, have spent years implementing and perfecting procedures to identify concussion symptoms and pull athletes.
If Talks with My Mom is the most resonant game I've played about parents and children, it's because, rather than look at aftershocks or symptoms, it pulls abuse and alienation, and the frustration I've felt about being unable to stop or change it, up by the root.
