Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trichotillomania and dermatillomania, hair pulling and skin picking disorders, respectively, are often formed as coping mechanisms ...

It’s hard to manage or stop a behavior when it isn't always clear when and why you're doing it. Skin picking and hair pulling are often so habitual that they happen either consciously or unconsciously ...

The other night, I sat down to watch a movie with my 11-year-old daughter. The movie—Titanic, if you’d like to know—was absorbing enough, so it took a while for me to notice a tiny, clicking, nibbling ...

When we stop framing these behaviors as failures and start seeing them as signals, the conversation changes. Compassion ...

Skin picking and hair pulling need to be part of the mental health conversation too September 17, 2020 0 Skin picking and hair pulling need to be part of the mental health conversation too ...