Service dogs are dogs that are trained to perform tasks that mitigate disabilities for people with serious disabilities. Psychiatric service dogs perform tasks to assist people with psychiatric disabilities, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, and schizophrenia. I have post-traumatic stress disorder and my service dog Isaac does a number of tasks to help me. ...
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 ...
Is your child always in the habit of pulling their hair? If you answered, “yes” then your child could have a disorder called, Trichotillomania. To help understand what is the cause of hair pulling in children and what you can do to help your child overcome hair pulling, I have interviewed psychologist Jennifer Horn. Tell ...
One of the most interesting science projects I have ever done with my students during my 20 years as a public and private school teacher was how to overcome dermatillomania – the urge to pick one’s skin. My students called it: Derma (skin) – till- oh- (you drive me crazy) mania Interestingly, the idea ...
Not every woman is blessed with long, natural, dark eyelashes that perfectly accent her eyes. Sometimes, we have to do quite a lot of work to get our eyelashes to pop and stand out the way we want them to. There’s a step that most women take in their makeup routine that’s meant to give ...
