psychiatric disorders
Body Focused Repetitive Behavior Disorder
Treatment of Body Focused Repetitive Behavior Disorder
N-acetylcysteine Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) orclomipramine Cognitive-behavioral therapy (usually habit reversal training) , Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) , or Awareness training (eg, self-monitoring, identification of triggers for the behavior) Stimulus control (modifying situations—eg, avoiding triggers—to reduce the likelihood of initiating the body-focused behavior) Competing response training (teaching patients to substitute other behaviors, such as clenching their fist, knitting, or sitting on their hands, for the body-focused behavior) Treatment is similar to that for Treatment (hair-pulling disorder) and 1.Lochner C, Roos Am Stein DJ: Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder: a systematic review of treatment options.Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat13:1867-1872, 2017. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S121138 