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...
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...
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...
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...
Makeup tips from Danielle Roberts. Danielle is CBSN’s Peer Support Coordinator and a skin picker. I love makeup. Or rather, I should say that I have a Stockholm syndrome relationship with makeup. At 19, I was held hostage by...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
“Where there’s one, there’s probably more” That’s an understatement. I live with a smattering of body focused repetitive behaviours, including hair pulling, nail biting and skin biting/picking (hands). I’ve been pulling out my hair since I was about 12...
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...
Inspired by a blog on The Mighty about things the blogger wished she had been told about mental illness, I thought let’s delve into what we wished we had been told about body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs), starting with dermatillomania....