(CNN) — Compulsive nail-biting, skin-picking, hairpulling, and lip- and cheek-biting are among a range of body-focused repetitive behaviors, or BFRBs, that can become a source of distress, but new ...

Why do you pick your face, poke your skin, and prod yourself? It’s complicated. How do you stop? Ditto. “People who excessively pull their hair or pick at their skin often do it to relieve tension and ...

Most of the people in my practice who suffer from skin picking or hair pulling initially have a deep sense of shame and guilt about their habit. They often wonder what’s wrong with them. Why do they ...

Against the advice of dermatologists (and skincare articles) everywhere, pimple popping is practically a national pastime. Who hasn’t awoken to a pesky, juicy whitehead just begging to be squeezed?

The other night, I sat down to watch a movie with my 11-year-old daughter. The movie—Titanic, if you’d like to know—was absorbing enough, so it took a while for me to notice a tiny, clicking, nibbling ...

When I get super anxious, like right before a date (or…during a date), it’s hard to resist picking at my cuticles or fiddling with bumpy patches of skin on my arms. I have obsessive-compulsive ...

BUT THERE ARE STRATEGIES TO HELP YOU STOP. IT HAS THIS SORT OF SOOTHING SENSATION IN DR. MICHELLE DE BLASI UNDERSTANDS THAT MAY SOUND ODD TO ANYONE WHO DOESN’T DO THIS OR THIS OR THIS. IT’S A WAY THAT ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For patients with chronic skin picking, a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder, that is severe enough to cause physical damage, results of a small study suggest that the ...