The relationship of psychological trauma with trichotillomania and skin picking

The relationship of psychological trauma with trichotillomania and skin picking

OBJECTIVE Interactions between psychological, biological and environmental factors are important in development of trichotillomania and skin picking. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship of traumatic life events, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociation in patients with diagnoses of trichotillomania and skin picking disorder. METHODS The study included pat...

Skin picking and trichotillomania in adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The objective of this study was to compare patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) associated with pathologic skin picking (PSP) and/or trichotillomania, and patients with OCD without such comorbidities, for demographic and clinical characteristics. We assessed 901 individuals with a primary diagnosis of OCD, using the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manua...

Psychosocial dysfunction associated with skin picking disorder and trichotillomania.

Skin picking disorder (SPD) and trichotillomania (TTM) are common and oftentimes disabling disorders. 125 Participants with SPD and 152 with TTM undertook clinical and neurocognitive evaluation, and were grouped according to mild, moderate, or severe levels of psychosocial dysfunction. Relationships between functional impairment and other variables were explored using linear regression and cate...

Trichotillomania and Skin Picking Disorder: Different Kinds of OCD

A cognitive comparison of pathological skin picking and trichotillomania.

OBJECTIVE Pathological Skin Picking (PSP) and Trichotillomania (TTM) share overlapping comorbidity and phenomenology. The extent to which these disorders share a common cognitive phenotype, however, has yet to be examined. This study sought to compare inhibitory control processes in individuals with PSP or TTM. METHODS Thirty-one subjects with PSP (mean age 31.2 ± 12.5 years; 93.5% female), 3...