Trichotillomania Is What I Have, Not Who I Am
I am 24, and I’ve been pulling my hair for at least 16 years. When I was younger, I would twirl my hair into knots and then pull the ball of knotted hair out. In middle school, I didn’t...
The Challenge of Going to the Dentist as a Cheek Biter
One of the things I hate doing is going for dental visits. It’s not because I don’t take care of my teeth and gums or because I don’t want to be told I have a cavity (well, that is...
BFRB Week 2017 Guest Blog Series: Eddie
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...
CBSN and the MindFest 2017 Experience
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.
BFRB Week 2017 Guest Blog Series: Aneela
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...
BFRB Week 2017 Guest Blog Series: Kimi
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...
Do I really deserve a mental health day?
As a society, we tend to focus on getting on with it. Everyone is all about perseverance, and while I think yes, I will endure because I am who I am and its in my DNA, perseverance is not just...
Things I Wish I Had Been Told About Dermatillomania
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....
My Dermatillomania Story
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...
The Importance of Support
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...
Reflecting On a Tuesday Night
Laura Barton’s experience of attending her first peer support meeting in Toronto. ——— I hate traffic. The vehicular congestion, the people who don’t seem to know how to drive, that one guy that just has to get ahead of...
Hope, Healing and Home
“I thought I was the only one!” “I didn’t know it was an actual disorder!” I see these kinds of messages all the time, whether it’s posted in a Facebook group, or even on Tumblr, these messages are a...
Mental WEALTH
Last week was Bell Let’s Talk Day, and an awesome 4.8 million was raised for mental health initiatives across Canada! Congrats to any of you who participated. This is a great initiative and I love how people in the...