When someone pull hi/her eye lashes out, is that considered a mental disorder?
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Yes... actually it can be a COMPULSIVE DISORDER... and it could either be something called Alopecia, OR something called Trichotillomania. Check out "Hair Loss... Causes and Treatments" at www.webmd.com\n\nI agree with "Perplexed" to an extent. The first thing they did was put my 9 year old on antidepressants. And though it HAS helped in her twisting on her hair (I do not see her doing this anymore and there IS new hair growth thank God!) it HAS caused her to become more irritable and moody, which was bad before, but WORSE since on the medication. They say that Trichotillomania is brought on by anxiety, and apparently it has made hers worse... not neccesarily the anxiety, but, the mood swings. Behavioral Therapy, catching yourself when your doing it and becoming more aware of it, can help a lot.
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If you stare at someone too long, then it is known as a staring problem. Why stare at someone in the first place?  How rude!
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Yes!\n\nI actually have this problem, though not to that extent. I do, however, avoid mirrors etc. to the point of obsession. I live with my wife and kids and we have the normal amount of mirrors but I litterally go weeks without looking in them and when I do, I can never make eye contact.\nthe funny thing is, I never really realized it was a real problem others have and never even really thought much about it until reading this!\nThis is not a joke response. I'm going to ask my psychologist about this. I also have a weird thing about my real name. I hate it! it's a normal, average name, but I hate it so much I cringe whenever I hear it. My wife won't even call me by my name unless she's REALLY angry and uses it as a swear.\nI'm working on overcoming feelings of worthlessness and maybe this has something to do with the mirror avoidance. \nwow.\nThanks for posting question!
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I think that this person needs to get some professional help.  He/she obviously has some serious issues - no one is worth hurting yourself for.
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If this is soemthing you find your unable to control you may have something called trichotillomania. trichotillomania is a condition where people pull out hair such as eyebrows,facial hair, leg hair, hair on your head ect  if you find that this is something that you do trigored by nervousness, fear, anger ect then you should tell your doc. Your doc can help you find the appropriate treament.\n\n here is a site that can give you more info on this and help you figure out what some more options are\nwww.hairscientists.org/q&a.htm
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People are afriad of mental illness. If they admit that mental illness is beyond our control, then it can happen to them. Most people do not understand the depth of pain and suffering that goes with mental illness of any kind. They may be able to pull themselves out of a short term funk but have not idea what it is like to live in a dark cloud.\n\nWhen they tell you to snap out of it, they are allowing themselve believe that they could snap out of it if mental illness happened to them. People have tried to blame the victim of all kinds of illnesses. If someone gets cancer, they must have smoked or had an unhealthy lifestyle or bad genes, for example. \n\nBlaming the victim is especially hurtful. We are punished twice-once by the sickness and again by those who blame us for having a problem of any kind.  They want to believe that it is a flaw in character that the sick person has and they don't have. \n\nA lot of doctors actually dismiss patients with "it's all in your head, here is an antidepresssant." This happens many times more to women that it does to men. The word hysterical, has as its root "hyster" referring to women.
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I'm sure that in some culture or another this trait has been socially and publically classified as crazy. Yet actually, this trait is unconsciously considered crazy in any capitalistic-grounded culture(money-making at any expense to others or the planet). \nWhere "sharks" abound, kindness is considered a weakness and who but a "crazy" person would set themselves up to be devoured?
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It is a spasm of the nerves connected to the mucscles that control the eyebrow...it is sometimes linked to psychological problems like nervous ticks...it isn't a problem unless it becomes unbearable...the seek the advise of an MD.
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It's amazing that although this question is posted in the Medicine section, there is no medical-informed answer before (and including) this one!\n\nLater addition:\nOK, the problem is that the concept of "madness", "mental illness" or "insanity", is too wide and complex to deserve a unique definition.\nA simpler scenario is the legal one (taken from the omnipresent Wikipedia), where a person is defined "insane" when presents inability to either determine the difference between "right" and "wrong" (or, in a more practical or direct sense, "legal" and "illegal") or understand the consequences of one's own actions.
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I have trichtotillamania, a disorder brought on by stress that runs in my family.  I've been compulsively plucking hair from my eyebrows, eyelashes, arms, and face since I was 8.  I can tell you from experience that two more will not grow back in place of a plucked hair, otherwise I'd be plucking 24/7.  Also, trichtotillamania is classified in with the other manias, such as pyromania and kleptomania...which I believe needs to be changed because it's more like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder...which I also seem to have a touch of since childhood.
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Did you come up with this in a clinical setting when you were reevaluating the diagnosis given to your clients from their previous caregivers? (Rhetorical question)\n\n\nSeriously though what is with this talk of getting away with it? Ultimately it does not matter. If a person acts like a jerk they get treated like a jerk. I am unaware of any pretext under which people "get away with being jerks". Could you maybe cite some examples? In the USA there is major stigma against mental illness and we get away with nothing! Not only that public opinion uses half truths and outright ignorance to persecuted people with mental disorders. They don't have compassion or understanding for the people who are harmless! Let alone make accommodation for the ones who are out of control! Just for example a person with antisocial personality disorder would most definitely have the characteristic of acting like a jerk, so in what PC dreamworld would a term like antisocial personality disorder elicit sympathy from anyone, and then cause them to look the other way at that behavior?\n\nThere are a whole lot of people out there serving hard time in prison because of their personality disorders. And guess what? They belong there.\n\nSo in closing, I really don't have a clue what you are talking about.
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It is definitely a disorder.
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That truly depends upon the person and their specific disorder.  A patient who behaves normally yet suffers from and is formally diagnosed with a disorder without a high tendency of exposing the public to his or her symptomology is called termed "high functioning".  In many cases, individuals coping with a disorder will only be "disturbed" when they should encounter their particular trigger.  Even so, there are innumerable advances in the realm of psychiatric treatment such as CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) as well as various meds which can keep such symptoms at bay.  That being said, if the person poses no threat to neither themself nor the rest of society (due to a disorder), there is usually no feasible necessity to bar them away.  By the way, I read your earlier inquiry about the symptoms you've been experiencing.  It seems quite evident to me that you may well have what is called "Borderline Personality Disorder".  It is a personality disorder with such key traits as "a deep and irrational fear of real or imagined abandonment" and has been linked to anxiety disorders as well.  Don't worry though, BPD is very treatable.  Research it for your own good...
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No, it is just the lunacy of weak willed/minded people!\n\nPeople in todays society use the word "desease" to avoid admitting their own fault/s.
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It's psychotic to want a psychotic mental disorder...Or it could mean that person is desperately seeking attention, which would only annoy everyone else around them. :)
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Yes, but I am not too hot on the idea of someone popping my eyesballs out.  I talked to someone who used to work at the eye bank and had to do that.  It is really gross to think about.
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No.  When a person is in a mental health crisis, they have no idea. So when you hear a person say "I think I'm having a nervous breakdown".....they aren't.  It's like a person saying "Oh no...I think I am getting Alzheimer's.."  but if you had it, you wouldn't be able to identify it.