I have always been a picker. I remember it from my earliest playground knee grazes—the irresistible urge to peel off the scab as soon as it formed; to see the bright white flesh beneath. I knew I wasn ...

While typing away on your desktop or making a hole in the floor while walking during stressful situations, one quirk is common in a whole lot of people. No, it's not the thought of quitting and ...

GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA, August 22, 2023/ EINPresswire.com / -- What is Skin Picking Disorder? Skin Picking Disorder, also known as Excoriation Disorder, involves recurrent and compulsive ...

A fear of being alone triggered my new habit. It was almost the holidays, and another good friend — one of the few left unmarried — became engaged. Immediately, the fear I'd had since childhood of ...

Helping Minds is making clinical specialists and lived-experience experts available worldwide for media interviews on OCD, skin picking, and trichotillomania. Too many people suffer for far too long ...

Body-focused repetitive behaviors, or BFRBs, are a set of disorders categorized by self-grooming routines that essentially go awry. These include pulling, picking, biting, or scraping one's hair, skin ...

Tallulah Willis, the 30-year-old actress and daughter of Hollywood stars Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, shared her powerful journey of healing from a skin-picking disorder known as dermatillomania or ...

NY, UNITED STATES, September 25, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- BFRB Awareness Week is a time to honor resilience, raise our voices, and shine a light on conditions too ...