By Andrea Wondering if you’ll ever find love with a body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB)? I wanted to write about this topic because I see so many posts giving advice for significant others dating someone with a BFRB. But what...
Mask acne, or maskne as it has been dubbed, is something that many of us might be dealing with as public spaces reopen. It’s meaning we’re out in public more, and in many cases wearing a mask is still...
by Morgan Content warning: This guest blog has mentions of self harm and overdose and implied mention of suicide. I started scratching (my preferred term) as early as first grade. My parents didn’t know how to cope with my scratching,...
by Kimi Vesel I have different hair in each photo on my Hinge profile, so no one can tell for sure what I look like. Call it catfishing, I call it tactical. I’m platinum blonde when I first meet...
Having a body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB) can be frustrating, making it tough to be kind to yourself and easy to fall into the cycle of being hard on yourself instead. There’s this idea that we should have the power...
Here in Southern Ontario, winter weather seems to be making an early appearance. From the colder temperatures to the snow on the ground, we’re already facing challenges that we normally wouldn’t face until later in the season. If you’re...
Heading off to college or university can be scary enough, especially if you’re going away from home. All of a sudden you go from a classroom setting in which you had to raise your hand to go to the...
Many of us want to share our body-focused repetitive behaviour stories on large platforms such as news sites and take the plunge, only to be subject to the stories being exploited as sensationalistic clickbait. We’ve seen the heartbreak of...
Makeup tips from Danielle Roberts. Danielle is CBSN’s Peer Support Coordinator and a skin picker. I love makeup. Or rather, I should say that I have a Stockholm syndrome relationship with makeup. At 19, I was held hostage by...
Wednesday, we went to MindFest, a one-day mental health convention. It was held at the Hart House on the University of Toronto campus, which, let me just say, was a gorgeous venue.
A Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviour Awareness Week tradition here at CBSN is to gather guest blogs to share throughout the week. In the past, we’ve gotten a variety of narratives from BFRBers across the world. This week, we have four...
Inspired by a blog on The Mighty about things the blogger wished she had been told about mental illness, I thought let’s delve into what we wished we had been told about body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs), starting with dermatillomania....
It’s becoming more and more evident to me that there’s a stark divide between two different philosophies when it comes to body-focused repetitive behaviours. One the one side of things, we have community members who strive to be behaviour-free....
In today’s world there’s a constant war between aesthetics or outward appearance and inward beauty. Seeing as we’re constantly bombarded by largely unattainable beauty standards and a narrow view of what beauty is, people rebel with ads and messages...
I hope this blog, the first after a long period of silence, doesn’t come across too awfully, but there’s something that bugs me about the community. It’s a bit of a rant, I guess you could say. “Am I...