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Prevalence, Treatment, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder
Excoriation disorder, often known as skin picking disorder, is a mental health problem defined by the recurrent act of picking one’s skin, resulting in tissue damage and causing functional impairment and/or discomfort. This pathological, obsessive, and repeated picking of skin that causes tissue damage is also referred to as neurotic excoriation, dermatillomania, or psychogenic excoriation.…
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Why Do Pathological Liars Lie?
Lying is a very common behavior per se. There are various reasons one might choose to lie. Perhaps you do not want to cause trouble with your boss, so you might lie that there no problems at work. Perhaps a young adolescent might lie to his parents to cover up the fact that he was…
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5 Red Flags of Pathological Lying
In the current digital sphere, communication has diversified. No longer does one have to speak to each other directly. While this has greatly increased the convenience of communication, it has also increased the convenience for pathological lying. Yes, this did just escalate quickly. Pathological lying is a pattern of behavior of distorting or hiding information…
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Horus’s Problems at Work – The Story of a Man with Hoarding Disorder
“Horus, are you going to tell me what are we gonna do about this?” Sara asked Horus, pointing towards a pile of empty packs of cigarettes and matchboxes right underneath his desk. Horus sighed. Sara was an attorney and Horus was her assistant. She was not the only one who had noted the cigarette packs…
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History, Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Hoarding Disorder
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) includes hoarding disorder (HD) in the group of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRD), which also includes trichotillomania, excoriation disorder, and body dysmorphic disorder. A person with a hoarding problem develops an unjustified attachment to their material belongings and finds it difficult to let go of…
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Walter White Character Analysis: The Psychology Behind the Rise of Heisenberg
Walter White – aka Heisenberg – goes through immense transformation as the main protagonist of the American series Breaking Bad. Starting out as a high school teacher, White eventually moves into the drug business – not only to make ends meet but also to thrive as his own person. Played by Bryan Cranston (a great…
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7 Movies You Should Watch to Understand Panic Attacks
Are you looking for movies on panic attacks to understand what they look like? If that is the case, you are at the right place! The following is the list of 7 movies you must watch to understand panic attacks: Girl, Interrupted (1999) In the film, Winona Ryder plays the role of a young lady who,…
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Oben’s Problems at Work
Oben could not stop thinking about what just happened. The day was going fine, he had had a good bout of meetings with his clients. Everything was going great in fact. But his heart dropped when he went back into his office. Oben had a neat array of fountain pens, always on the right side…
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Agra’s Problems at Work
Agra felt a surge of dread wash over her as her assistant, Fera, said that she had parked her car in the parking lot. It was Agra’s practice to park her car in front of the building of the software house. She had asked special permission from the CEO of the company, to allow her…
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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) – also simply known as body dysmorphia – as a condition in which a person is fixated on what they think is wrong with their appearance when to others around them, there may not be an issue with their appearance. BDD is a common mental illness. However, it is often not…
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Psychoeducation (REBT): How ‘Musts’ or Demandingness Lead to Behavioral Disorders
Imagine a scenario where something unexpected happens. This situation stresses you out immensely. You do not know how this problem will resolve, but you want it to just go away. Someone must help you. The event that distressed you must not happen again. You must resolve it quickly. In short, the world must comply with…
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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania, also known as hair-pulling disorder, is an obsessive-compulsive disorder in which people repeatedly pull out hair from any part of their body. Studies reveal that there have not been many large epidemiological studies on this disorder, but estimates of its frequency show that between 0.5% and 2% of the general population has it. However,…
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