BFRB Back-to-School Tips: Post-Secondary
Heading off to college or university can be scary enough, especially if you’re going away from home. All of a sudden you go from a classroom setting in which you had to raise your hand to go to the...
Derma-Friendly Makeup Tips: Stockholm Syndrome with Makeup
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...
8 BFRB Back-to-School Tips
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...
Disorder Desperation
Most, if not all of us, have been in a place of desperation, especially when it comes to having relatively unknown disorders like BFRBs. Whether we are the ones with the BFRB or a parent of a child with...
BFRB Back-to-School Tips: Kindergarten to Grade 12
Back to school can be difficult for many reasons, and for those of us with BFRBs it can be even worse. Maybe over the summer, our pulling or picking got significantly worse. Maybe we are worried about how we ...
World Suicide Prevention Day
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has posted this video,which briefly discusses suicide and it’s statistics. Today, September 10th, is World Suicide Prevention Day, and we believe it’s important to take a look at videos like theseand spread...