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...
BFRB Back-to-School Tips: Post-Secondary
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...
NEW BFRB Support Group in SASKATOON, Saskatchewan
Great news for our BFRB community out in Saskatchewan, we now have a BFRB Support Group up and running! All BFRBs and family members welcome, held every 2nd and 4th Sunday of every month. Visit our event section on the...
The Cost Of Living With a BFRB
Having any type of body-focused repetitive behaviour can force you to become somewhat of a “beauty-guru” whether you like it or not. Many of us spend more time than we’d like in our local drug-stores or beauty store trying to...
How to Avoid Having Your BFRB Story Exploited
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...
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 Surprises: Remission and Nail Biting
Why do we stop sometimes without even trying? This is a question that I ask myself a lot. I have been pulling my hair for 18 years and biting my nails for basically my whole life (30 years). While...
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...
Trich-Friendly Hair, Brow, and Lash Tips
Hair tips from Kala Bennett. Kala is CBSN’s Outreach Coordinator and a trichster. Everyone who pulls their hair knows the horrors of finding bald spots, and the sheer terror that flows through your body when you realize “THIS IS...
Derma-Friendly Makeup Tips: Stockholm Syndrome with Makeup
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...
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...
BFRB Week Guest Blog 2017 Series: Francesca
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...
8 BFRB Back-to-School Tips
In the past, I’ve written about back-to-school tips I would recommend, but this time around, I thought I’d ask the body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB) community for their take on how to prepare for back-to-school. BFRBs are hard enough to...