Awareness Week 2014: Kristy
I was around 8 years old when I noticed an eyelash in my eye and got very upset and paranoid about getting others. I started pulling out the ones that would appear to stand out from the rest in...
Awareness Week 2014: Meli and Ashley
The following poems were written for Awareness Week 2014 by two young women named Meli and Ashley. ——– Tongue in Cheek by Meli I keep biting my cheeks to get rid of imperfections as if I didn’t trust...
BFRB Educational Seminar – Toronto
Join CBSN on October 25th in Toronto for a BFRB Educational Seminar for professionals and the general public! Some highlights include: Q&A with Dr. Mark Sinyor & Dr. Peggy Richter, community members sharing their BFRB story, treatment and support...
CBSN reaches The Yukon! “No need to be ashamed”
Our Yukon Peer Support Leader, Colleen, shared her story about living with trichotillomania, and it was featured in the Yukon News this past week! Read the article here. Congratulations and a big thank you to Colleen for her bravery...
Meet the Leaders: Brenda Cameron, BFRB Calgary
The Meet the Leaders Series is an opportunity to learn some information about your peer support leaders before you attend a meeting. ——– Hello and welcome to the Calgary CBSN Support Group! I am very excited to hold our first...
Meet the Leaders: Kelsie Hanna, BFRB Edmonton
The Meet the Leaders Series is an opportunity to learn some information about your peer support leaders before you attend a meeting. ——– Kelsie Hanna, Trichotillomania My vision for the group is to bring people together so they know...
The Dreaded Relapse: Dermatillomania
This guest piece comes from Danielle Roberts. Danielle is a Canadian freelance writer who graduated from the University of Calgary in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She is an avid runner, reader and mental health advocate...
2 BFRB books you MUST GET!
Project Dermatillomania & Doesn’t It Hurt?: Confessions of Compulsive Hair Pullers are two books that you just HAVE to read! Why? Each copy sold = a donation to both CBSN and the Trichotillomania Learning Centre! How great is that?!...
Conceptualizing Trichotillomania as a Disorder of Addiction
The following is a research paper written by Brittany Meredith who is a Master of Counselling (Psychology) student in her second year of study. She wrote this paper last semester for her Psychology of Addiction class. Her interest in...
Obsessive-Compulsive & Related Disorders: Changing Concepts, Changing Science
Four of us from CBSN were able to make it to the 2nd Annual Frederick W. Thompson Centre Anxiety and Related Disorders Centre conference at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on Monday, March 10. As it was a full day...
An Overview of Toronto’s March 4th Peer Support Meeting with Dr. Sinyor
On March 4th, the Peer Support group based out of Toronto had the opportunity to have a guest: Dr. Mark Sinyor of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. We had posted to our Facebook page asking if anyone had any questions for...
Spread The Word, Break The Stigma- Awareness Video
CBSN is very proud to present our first Awareness Video. A big THANK YOU to Sky Wylie, a member of one of our Peer Support Groups, who put together this amazing video. We hope you enjoy, and be sure...
How CBSN Came To Be…
Wonder how CBSN got started? Read all about it here as Founder Sarah shares the story with her former University, Guelph-Humber.
CBSN IS OFFICIAL!
After 7 months, we are now an OFFICIAL agency under Canada’s Not-for-profit Corporations Act! The second agency in the entire world dedicated to BFRB’s and related mental health disorders. Thank you for all your support! Let’s see how far...
Hope, Healing and Home
“I thought I was the only one!” “I didn’t know it was an actual disorder!” I see these kinds of messages all the time, whether it’s posted in a Facebook group, or even on Tumblr, these messages are a...