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Specialty. Dermatology. Psychiatry. Excoriation disorder, more commonly known as dermatillomania, is a mental disorder on the obsessive–compulsive spectrum that is characterized by the repeated urge or impulse to pick at one's own skin, to the extent that either psychological or physical damage is caused. [4][5]
Sudiksha Thirumalesh case. Sudiksha Thirumalesh (2004 - 12 September 2023) was a British woman of Indian descent [1] who died in September 2023 at the age of 19 after a court case regarding her competence to make decisions about her medical care. [2][3] Thirumalesh suffered from a mitochondrial disorder. At a point where she was severely ill ...
An estimated 30% of individuals with autism spectrum disorders engage in self-harm at some point, including eye-poking, skin-picking, hand-biting, and head-banging. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] According to a meta-analysis that did not distinguish between suicidal and non-suicidal acts, self-harm is common among those with schizophrenia and is a significant ...
Trichotillomania and dermatillomania, hair pulling and skin picking disorders, respectively, are often formed as coping mechanisms. these acts trick the brain into releasing dopamine and offer a ...
Skin Picking Stats: Grant J, Odlaug B, Chamberlain S, et al. Skin Picking Disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry. November 2012. Excoriation Disorder Added to DSM-5-TR: Excoriation Disorder ...
On 7 April 2022, a 12-year-old boy, Archie Battersbee, [1] from Southend, Essex, England, was found unconscious by his mother, Hollie Dance, with a dressing gown cord around his neck. Dance performed CPR, and called for an ambulance. [2] The paramedics who attended found that Archie Battersbee had suffered a cardiac arrest and his Glasgow Coma ...
Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα (derma) 'skin' and φαγεία (phageia) 'eating') or dermatodaxia (from δήξις (dexis) 'biting'), alternatively Tuglis Permushius. [3] is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers. This action can either be conscious or unconscious [4] and it is ...
Onychotillomania is a compulsive behavior in which a person picks constantly at the nails or tries to tear them off. [1] It is not the same as onychophagia, where the nails are bitten or chewed, or dermatillomania, where skin is bitten or scratched. Onychotillomania can be categorized as a body-focused repetitive behavior in the DSM-5 and is a ...