A woman who spends three hours a day pulling out chunks of her own hair started ripping out her eyelashes when she was just 8 years old. Megan Prosser, 19, suffers from trichotillomania, also known as ...

Rebecca Brown from Essex, England knew her hair was going to go either way — so she decided to get rid of it the least tortuous way possible. In August 2012, the 23-year-old blonde-haired blue-eyed ...

I lived a placid childhood in an interior suburb of Houston, in a green neighborhood with an annual decorate-your-bicycle parade on the 4th of July. The summers were sweltering hot and spent outside, ...

In a society where long, shiny hair signals sex appeal and desirability, I am a woman with a bald spot. Worse, it is one of my own making: I tear out my hair, strand by strand, or sometimes in clumps.