Dermatillomania is an obsessive compulsive disorder where a person has an intense urge and need to pick at their own skin. Dermatillomania is a disorder that consists of body focused repetitive behavior. Dermatillomania is also known as “obsessive skin picking”. For people with Dermatillomania, the urge to pick at their own skin is so strong ...
Dermatillomania, also known as Compulsive Skin Picking (CSP), is the impulsive and repetitive picking of one’s skin to the point of causing damage. Dermatillomania is considered to be one of the ways that generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can manifest and is rarely seen in children. There are very few resources available ...
Everybody pops a pimple. Or picks a scab. Right? For the most part, that’s true. But people with Chronic or Compulsive Skin Picking (CSP) have uncontrollable urges to pick their skin; sometimes up to hours a day, causing emotional distress and visible damage to their skin. The face is usually the primary location for picking, ...
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a relatively rare disorder of chromosome 15. The genetic cause of Prader-Willi is the absence or loss of three genes normally contributed by the father, and it is often difficult to diagnose. PWS is characterized in infancy by hypotonia or undeveloped muscle tone, failure to thrive, and problems with feeding. As ...
Many women hate plucking their eyebrows and men cringe at the thought of the pain women put themselves through, but what if someone actually enjoys plucking their hair? What if they enjoy it so much that it becomes a habit and that habit turns into an obsession? There’s a medical name for it — it’s ...
