A new approach was shown to help 53% of participants in a six-week study aimed at easing body-focused repetitive behaviors such as nail-biting, hair-plucking and skin-picking. The habit replacement ...

You’re not alone if you find some “bad” habit weirdly satisfying: freeing an ingrown hair, plucking a stray gray, popping a pimple, gnawing off a pesky hangnail, or whatever else you might do in the ...

Fidgeting and fussing can do real harm. Feb. 15, 2014— -- intro: Nervous habits are often more annoying to the people around you than to yourself, but some types of fidgeting and fussing can do ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Hair pulling, skin picking and nail biting are all body-focused repetitive behaviors that can have a huge impact on people's lives. A Minneapolis-based tech startup developed ...

The next version of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders proposes to lump nail biters and... Nail Biting: Mental Disorder Or Just A Bad Habit?

BUT THERE ARE STRATEGIES TO HELP YOU STOP. IT HAS THIS SORT OF SOOTHING SENSATION IN DR. MICHELLE DE BLASI UNDERSTANDS THAT MAY SOUND ODD TO ANYONE WHO DOESN’T DO THIS OR THIS OR THIS. IT’S A WAY THAT ...

Some people have body-focused repetitive behaviors, or BFRBs. These include plucking hairs, picking at skin, and biting nails. It goes further than having a "bad habit," because people who have BFRBs ...

Children resort to aggressive behaviors because of a lack of wisdom and self-control. It is not a sign that a child is hateful or mean. Kids are human beings and human beings will get angry, we can’t ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Hair pulling, skin picking and nail biting are all body-focused repetitive behaviors that can have a huge impact on people's lives. A Minneapolis-based tech startup developed ...

BUT THERE ARE STRATEGIES TO HELP YOU STOP. IT HAS THIS SORT OF SOOTHING SENSATION IN DR. MICHELLE DE BLASI UNDERSTANDS THAT MAY SOUND ODD TO ANYONE WHO DOESN’T DO THIS OR THIS OR THIS. IT’S A WAY THAT ...