What's Wrong with Pulling My Hair Out? Breakthrough Secrets & Powerful Answers to End Your Trichotillomania Forever Without Medication, Willpower or Diets (Book & CD Set) [Audio CD]

Abby Leora Rohrer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2004

Abby Leora Rohrer is a former 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 16 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 empowers how you to reclaim your power from compulsive hair pulling and provides real hope and effective tools to relieve your problem for good. Since writing the book, we have received hundreds of letters from long-term hair pullers. They have thanked Abby for helping them finally find hope and freedom from pulling for the first time in their lives.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Brilliant! My whole attitude changed immediately and I knew that I had the power to also heal myself." -- N. Sharma, London, England

"I have not pulled a single, solitary hair in 5 months since reading your eBook!" -- A Reader from Illinois

"Since reading your info, I have quit pulling! I am so very grateful." -- A Reader from Colorado

"Your book became a catalyst to shake this bondage that's plagued me for 45 years. God bless you." -- J.N., Louisiana

"Your book helped me look at hairpulling in a different light. I hope others are as empowered as I am" -- Name Withheld By Request

From the Publisher

In this book you will learn these breakthrough ideas:

· A surefire, science-based way to end your pulling forever without drugs, willpower, behavior therapy or special diet · The 4 crucial areas that you must address to achieve permanent healing · How to get past your resistance to end your hair pulling · How to immunize yourself against trichotillomania forever · The 1 thing you can do right now to stop your pulling in its tracks · Why the single biggest problem in your life is NOT the urge to pull your hair out · How you can teach your therapist, family members and friends to help you heal · Why only you can free yourself from your hairpulling prison · Why the information in this book is better than everything else you’ve tried · How your "Urge to Pull" can become your "Key to Freedom" · How you continually interfere with the natural process of healing · How to live without shame forever even if you decide not to stop pulling · Why the advice of well-meaning professionals and friends actually makes permanent freedom impossible to achieve · Why controlling your pulling doesn’t produce lasting results and what to do about it · How to overcome the most self-defeating mindset. Once you realize it, it’s like flipping a switch that will allow you to finally get free · The Good News About Hairpulling (Yes, there is good news)! · What to do AFTER you’ve healed your hairpulling · Plus, lots more

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Facilitated Recovery, LLC; Book & CD Set edition (November 1, 2004)
• ISBN-10: 0976578921
• ISBN-13: 978-0976578925
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 9.9 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,382,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Are you ready for a challenge?, February 16, 2005

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K. Donohue "grammar geek" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What's Wrong with Pulling My Hair Out? Breakthrough Secrets & Powerful Answers to End Your Trichotillomania Forever Without Medication, Willpower or Diets (Ring-bound)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth your time, May 18, 2011

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reeree0040 - See all my reviews

This review is from: What's Wrong with Pulling My Hair Out? Breakthrough Secrets & Powerful Answers to End Your Trichotillomania Forever Without Medication, Willpower or Diets (Book & CD Set) (Audio CD)

This is a tough one. But what if you began to look at hair-pulling as an addiction instead of a disorder?

That's what Rohrer does. The word 'Habit' is too nice. For those of us who pull, the word 'Habit' is an understatement. The word 'Disorder' though, I'm sure the medical community would be up in arms about challenging that word, makes you feel lost. That something is just plain WRONG with you. Hair-pullers everywhere suffer from incredible low-self esteem. When I first began to look at hair-pulling as an addiction, I thought, "Wow, I can actually beat this thing."

That attitude alone, moves mountains. I am not pullfree today. But I can say with certainty that that day is soon to come. I know it. I feel it. My life has changed profoundly doing the work she suggests in these books. I am more whole. I am more me. I do not hate myself the same way. I have compassion for myself. I am not ashamed of my bald eyebrows and eyelashes. I can talk about it and not feel worried about what people are thinking of me. I have me. I have learned to become my own best friend.

I am also familiar with Abby's online course for women which can be found at [...] there are testimonials there that you can become more familiar with.

What I feel, is that Abby has revolutionized not only the way we deal with hair-pulling, but all addictions. Please do not give up hope.