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,...
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...
My first memory of my BFRB was back in the fourth grade when I was about nine or ten and had just lost my cousin to a car accident and had just begun to suffer from intrusive thoughts as...
My name is Gessie and I am 16 years old from the United States. I have trichotillomania. I recently had to write an autobiography for English class, and one of the sections we had to include was about a...
For over 2 decades I have suffered from Trichotillomania. Trichotillomania; chronic, impulsive and addictive hair pulling resulting in noticeable hair loss. In and around 1994 I started pulling my hair out. I didn’t think anything of it. It did...
“Perfect” Is a Toxic Word Kimi Skokin I am a girl with trichotillomania and dermatillomania who works in a research lab dealing with eating disorders. In my first few weeks on the job, I’ve already come to notice a...
For as long as I can remember, my mum would tell me that I have been picking ever since I was born. I never sucked my thumb, I would pick. I started out picking my mum’s skin whenever she...
She was about 12 years old the first time. She remembers looking in that mirror, trying to stop, but having no control. A process that has repeated almost every day since for the last 26 years. Open oozing wounds...
Guest Blog written by Emma Bowers: Most of us who struggle with Trichotillomania and other BFRBs just want to know – WHY? Why me? Why can’t I just stop? Will I ever get better, or will I be this...
This blog was submitted to us after the submitter, who wishes to remain anonymous, was sent a link to the recent post in the Calgary Herald. ——– Someone close to me, who is also a “picker” sent me the...
By Samantha Wake Body focused repetitive disorders such as Dermatillomania are extremely over looked. Throughout the past year I have been trying to change that. Dermatillomania is an impulse control disorder characterised by the repeated urge to pick at...
Hey BFRBCanada followers! I’m Nichola and today I’m going to attempt to explain to you how I got Trichotillomania and why having a BFRB awareness week is so important to me. I have had Trichotillomania for 6 years, I...
Guest Blogger Samantha Wake shares with us the story of her journey with dermatillomania. ———- It began in my early teens, around age 13, when I started to get acne just like any other teenager. Having said this, I’d...
Chibi Jeebs shares her story, telling us why she picks her skin when it causes her so much distress ___ I pick at my skin. The slightest bump, lump, or imperfection is subject to my finger nails; I work...
In honour of BFRB Awareness Week and Day 2’s Topic: Trichotillomania, Kay touches on the importance of support and its impact on healing. The importance of support I have spent many years struggling with my trich. I was 13...