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Body-focused repetitive behavior refers to (BFRB) is an impulse control behaviors involving compulsively damaging one’s physical appearance or causing physical injury.

 

BFRB disorders are part of the obsessive-compulsive spectrum.

 

The cause is unknown.

 

Most often begin in late childhood or in the early teens.

 

The main BFRB disorders are:

Skin Dermatillomania, skin picking

Dermatophagia, skin nibbling

 

Mouth

 

Morsicatio buccarum, cheek biting

 

Morsicatio labiorum, inner lip biting

 

Morsicatio linguarum, tongue biting

 

Hands

 

Onychophagia, nail biting

 

Onychotillomania, nail picking

 

Nose

 

Rhinotillexomania, compulsive nose picking

 

Hair

 

Trichophagia, hair nibbling

 

Trichotemnomania, hair cutting

 

Trichotillomania, hair pulling

 

Eyes

 

Mucus fishing syndrome 

 

Treatment includes:  behavior modification therapy, medication, and family therapy.

 

No treatment was deemed well-established to treat any form of BFRBs.

 

BFRBs may affect at least 1 out of 20 people.

 

Trichotillomania alone is believed to affect 10 million people in the United States.

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