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Abby Leora Rohrer is an ex 27-year compulsive hair puller. Her book, “What’s Wrong With Pulling My Hair Out?” is based on her own healing experience from trichotillomania over 10 years ago. It provides the first rays for hope and healing from the previously grim outlook for hair-pullers. “What’s Wrong With Pulling My Hair Out?” offers a new healing model. It changes how you see compulsive hair pulling. She offers the hope and tools to relieve your problem for… More >>
I haven’t finished this book yet, but I think it’s important to review this book at this time because I think there are probably a lot of people out there who, like me, started reading this book and put it down because their current beliefs about Trichotillomania were challenged and it made them uncomfortable. It made me uncomfortable too.
But you need to keep reading the book. Is Rohrer right? Is Trich all in our head? You know what….what if she is?!?! What if our current beliefs are directly responsible for this endless cycle of pulling, guilt, shame, and more pulling? Are we so determined to close our minds to this idea that we’re willing to risk freedom? I don’t know if I’ll end my pulling forever if I continue reading this book and following the exercises. What I do know is that it has challenged me the way nothing else has. And I think our natural resistance to challenge and change is indicative of the reasons so many of us are still asking the same questions and still making very little progress. Throw rocks at me if you want, but you owe it to yourself to take a deep look inside and figure out what it is that’s really eating at you. Even if it turns out this theory doesn’t work for you, I bet you’ll make significant strides in getting to know yourself better. And you can only benefit from that.
The book is a comfortable read. Rohrer is a peer, and addresses you as such. The first few pages were difficult for me because of my natural resistence to “self-help” books, but the content itself is not difficult. The challenge it presents is purely emotional, and will vary depending on your own level of willingness to participate in your own healing.
The interesting thing about the Trich community is that we will try almost anything to find a “cure” for Trichotillomania. Some of us try medication. Some try therapy. Some try special diets. Some try habit reversal. Do these things work? Sure, to some extent. But inside you is a person who desperately needs to pull, and tells you so almost every day. Have you ever sat down with her and asked her why? Rohrer does.
Rating: 4 / 5