Dermatophagia A type of Impulse Control Disorder and Obsessive - TopicsExpress



          

Dermatophagia A type of Impulse Control Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder wherein a sufferer compulsively bites their own skin. Sufferers typically bite the skin around the nails, leading to bleeding and discoloration over time. Some may consume the flesh during an episode. The behavior associated with skin-biting is not exclusively the compulsory response to anxious/obsessive cognition; it is impulsive, and while the skin-biting may present with anxiety/obsessive thoughts, the presence of anxiety/obsessions is not diagnostically required to precede the behavior (while such anxiety/obsessions are diagnostically required with OCD). Sufferers are known as wolf-biters.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 07:51:29 +0000

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