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...
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...
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...
Trichotillomania and Art-Based Research Opportunity in Toronto
My name is Julia Mason and I have lived with compulsive hair pulling since I was 15 years old. I am a member of the Canadian BFRB Support Network and am the Peer Support Leader of the Guelph BFRB...
Accepting the Hard Realities of BFRBs
In the body-focused repetitive behaviour community, many people who have a BFRB or multiple BFRBs are searching for a cure. And if not a cure specifically, all of us are looking for answers of some sort—causes, triggers, what helps,...
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...
Stop Fighting Amongst Ourselves: Behaviour-Free vs Acceptance
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....
CHECK THIS OUT!: Trichotillomania: Losing My Mind, One Strand Of Hair At A Time
The following has been taken from the website www.thequint.com. Click here to read the original article and leave Anu Elizabeth Roche a positive message of thanks for her moving words. We are very proud that Anu beautifully shared her awesome...
BFRBs and Suicidal Thoughts
I was thinking the other day how strange it is that despite the body-focused repetitive behaviour community being part of the larger mental health community, there are still some topics that don’t get discussed. It’s especially strange considering how...
Check it out! – The Textile Artist Who Weaves Tapestries With Trichotillomania
This article was originally published on web magazine called Folks. Every week, Folks publishes 3 to 4 compelling, well-written stories about people who are living with chronic conditions, but without reducing them to their conditions. Check out the original...
BFRBs and Desirability
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...