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Onychotillomania is a compulsive behavior in which a person picks constantly at the nails or tries to tear them off. [1] It is not the same as onychophagia, where the nails are bitten or chewed, or dermatillomania, where skin is bitten or scratched.
A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, sleep twitch, myoclonic jerk, or night start is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment.
Since the DSM-5 (2013), excoriation disorder is classified as "L98.1 Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder" in ICD-10; [19] and is no longer classified in "Impulse control disorder" (f63). Excoriation disorder is defined as "repetitive and compulsive picking of skin which results in tissue damage".
Body-focused repetitive behavior. Dermatillomania (picking of the skin) of the knuckles (via mouth), illustrating disfiguration of the distal and proximal joints of the middle and little fingers. Body-focused repetitive behavior ( BFRB) is an umbrella name for impulse control [1] behaviors involving compulsively damaging one's physical ...
Self-harm behaviours, including biting, hitting, head banging, and skin picking, are very common. Behavioral complications in Smith-Magenis syndrome are thought to be worsened by issues with sleeping. Repetitive self-hugging is a behavioral trait that may be unique to Smith–Magenis syndrome. People with this condition may also compulsively ...
Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — lit. skin and φαγεία lit. eating) or dermatodaxia (from δήξις, lit. biting) [3] is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers.
Pathophysiology. Chronic and repetitive scratching, picking, or rubbing of the nodules may result in permanent changes to the skin, including nodular lichenification, hyperkeratosis, hyperpigmentation, and skin thickening. Unhealed, excoriated lesions are often scaly, crusted or scabbed.
Angular cheilitis – a fissure running in the corner of the mouth with reddened, irritated facial skin adjacent. A fairly mild case of angular cheilitis extending onto the facial skin in a young person (affected area is within the black oval). Angular cheilitis is a fairly non specific term which describes the presence of an inflammatory ...
Rheum. Rheum ( / ruːm /; from Greek: ῥεῦμα rheuma 'a flowing, rheum') is a thin mucus naturally discharged from the eyes, nose, or mouth, often during sleep (contrast with mucopurulent discharge ). [1] [2] [3] Rheum dries and gathers as a crust in the corners of the eyes or the mouth, on the eyelids, or under the nose. [3]
Decoupling for body-focused repetitive behaviors. Decoupling [1] is a behavioral self-help intervention for body-focused and related behaviors ( DSM-5) such as trichotillomania, onychophagia ( nail biting ), skin picking and lip-cheek biting. The user is instructed to modify the original dysfunctional behavioral path by performing a counter ...