Definitions of Trich et al.

I'm thanking Wiki for these as I can't be bothered to write them out myself!

Trichotillomania (TTM), or "trich" as it is commonly known, is an impulse control disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes, facial hair, nose hair, pubic hair, eyebrows or other body hair. It may be distantly related to obsessive-compulsive disorder or Tourette syndrome with which it shares similarities. Trichotillomania is classified in the DSM-IV as an impulse control disorder that is not elsewhere classified under another axis or disorder. It is classified in this manner to control diagnoses of TTM. It is an Axis I disorder.

Dermatillomania (also known as compulsive skin picking or CSP) is an obsessive compulsive disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pick at one's own skin, often to the extent that damage is caused.

Sufferers of dermatillomania find skin picking to be stress relieving or gratifying rather than painful.

Trichophagia is the compulsive eating of hair. Most often, long hair is masticated while still attached to the head and then swallowed.

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Looking for more information, and unable to find any, I'm also including my own classification for compulsively eating skin. I'm calling it Dermatillophagia.

Anyway, these are my four problems and I will be discussing them in more detail within this blog.