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Oct 1-7th is BFRB awareness week
Jillian is my beautiful three year old girl, she pulls her hair out and eats it and has since she was a baby. We shave her head to protect her from forming a hair ball since humans don't digest hair. It can cause intestinal blockage and can require emergency surgery.
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Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB) is an umbrella name for impulse control behaviors involving compulsively damaging one's physical appearance or causing physical injury.
The main BFRB disorders are:
Trichotillomania, compulsive hair pulling (what Jill has along with trichophagia)
Onychophagia, compulsive nail biting
Jillian is my beautiful three year old girl, she pulls her hair out and eats it and has since she was a baby. We shave her head to protect her from forming a hair ball since humans don't digest hair. It can cause intestinal blockage and can require emergency surgery.
.
Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB) is an umbrella name for impulse control behaviors involving compulsively damaging one's physical appearance or causing physical injury.
The main BFRB disorders are:
Trichotillomania, compulsive hair pulling (what Jill has along with trichophagia)
Onychophagia, compulsive nail biting
and Excoriation disorder, compulsive skin picking
