Body-focused
repetitive behaviors (BFRB) are intense urges like biting, picking, and pulling
that can cause damages. If you check on the internet and around you 1 in 20
people have BFRB, but they can be dismissed as bad habits.
While BFRB shares some symptoms with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) they
are not the same.
Trichotillomania,
also known as trich, is when someone cannot resist the urge to pull out their
hair. In this case, a person may pull out the hair on their head or in other
places, such...
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