Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) Town Hall

Join moderator Jennifer Raikes from The TLC Foundation (BFRB.org) with panelists Lauren McKeaney (Picking Me Foundation) and Dr. Fred Penzel as they discuss Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs). Ask your questions live to the panel!

[@jesswoodhere]

Incredibly informative and helpful! Thank you!!

[@katherinebrooks318]

Thanks so much! I'm new to this world due to a child with issues and this has been so helpful!

[@thischosenlife7626]

I just found out after all these yrs I have BFRD. I’ve literally ripped the skin around my fingers since I was roughly 11. In high school my fingers were horrible, so embarrassing and I’d try to hide them. I’m in my 50s and I still do it. I have to wear fake nails to give my fingers a break. But I have clippers by me a lot just to tear my skin apart. Sometimes I don’t know I’m doing it and there’s times I’m well aware. But I do get comfort out of it in a weird way even though I can do it until my skin bleeds, hurts and hardly able to move them from pain. My fingers are even somewhat deformed. I guess my dad did it. My oldest daughter does it too.

[@souravde8013]

Thanks for this video

[@souravde8013]

I've many types of bfrb... Nail biting, skin picking, teeth grinding etcetera etcetera

[@girdharibankar878]

Do you have OCD symptoms

[@denisemoore8536]

Thanks a million!!!! - can you clarify if the book Radical Acceptance your referring to is the one by Tara Brach or Andrea Miller?