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2. To stop nail-biting, skin picking and hair pulling, new ... - AOL

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   Body-focused repetitive behaviors — compulsively pulling or picking at your hair or skin, unable to stop yourself even if the behavior leads to scabs, scars and bald spots — affects about 5% ...

3. Women share what it's like living with trichotillomania: 'I ...

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   Now 25, Paul still struggles with hair-pulling and has chosen to embrace a bald cut to prevent the urge to pick. She also utilizes wigs to help control the urges but admits that her scalp is free ...

4. 'I Always Had A Bad Habit Of Touching My Hair, Until I Tried ...

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   From biting your nails to over-shopping, your habits might hold you back. Experts explain how to break bad habits in favor of more positive routines over time.

5. Decoupling for body-focused repetitive behaviors - Wikipedia

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   The user is instructed to modify the original dysfunctional behavioral path by performing a counter-movement shortly before completing the self-injurious behavior (e.g., biting nails, picking skin, pulling hair). This is intended to trigger an irritation, which enables the person to detect and stop the compulsive behavior at an early

6. Trichotillomania - Wikipedia

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   Trichotillomania (TTM), also known as hair-pulling disorder or compulsive hair pulling, is a mental disorder characterized by a long-term urge that results in the pulling out of one's own hair. [2] [4] A brief positive feeling may occur as hair is removed. [5] Efforts to stop pulling hair typically fail.

7. Habit reversal training - Wikipedia

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   Habit reversal training (HRT) is a "multicomponent behavioral treatment package originally developed to address a wide variety of repetitive behavior disorders". [ 1 ] Behavioral disorders treated with HRT include tics , trichotillomania , nail biting , thumb sucking , skin picking , temporomandibular disorder (TMJ), lip-cheek biting and ...