Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) – Nail Biting, Nose Picking and other BFRBs Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors BFRB CBT for Anxiety Skin Picking and Hair Pulling - Trichotillomania
Body focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), such as trichotillomania or excoriation disorder, may affect more than 10 million people in the U.S. alone. CBT, ComB model, SSRI’s, and the supplement N-acetylcysteine are the current forms of treatment for BFRBs. However, more research is needed to further strengthen treatment for these unique disorders. “In the history of psychiatry, this is nothing,” Dr. Charles Mansueto. Schizophrenia, for example, has been studied for over a hundred years, whereas hair pulling and skin picking are just now being recognized, “This is so new.”
