Anxiety
"THE best drug for trichotillomania to me. 

It can&#039;t be said more about the pain, torture, anxiety, shame, and ... that come with constantly pulling your hair out from your scalp. I used to also constantly pull/scratch the skin out from my outer ear! Before I stopped picking, I have developed 6 &quot;devastated battlefields&quot; on my head and both outer ears where nothing but constant bleeding is noticed. I started lamotrigine for quite a while. It first did little to my trich. In the meantime, I was also on several different SSRI and one SNRI. HOWEVER, after I upped my dose to 125 mg (qd), the scratching IMMEDIATELY went away the day right after I upped my dosage!!! My anxiety  is now lower for the first time in years!"