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Dermatillomania: Natural Remedies for Skin Picking We all touch, from time to time, a small scab, a dry pimple, a peel that starts coming off. Normal. In people with dermatillomania, this ordinary gesture turns into compulsive behavior that lasts hours, leaves behind wounds, scars, infections and a deep shame hidden under long sleeves, thick makeup and pants even in summer. The condition, also called skin picking disorder or excoriation disorder, affects 2-5% of the population and belongs to the same family as trichotillomania: body-focused repetitive behaviors, or BFRB. ...

Trichotillomania: Natural Remedies and Therapy Support For someone who has never lived it, trichotillomania can seem incomprehensible. Why would someone pluck, for hours, hair by hair, their own hair, until bald patches appear on the scalp, thinned eyebrows or missing lashes? For those who suffer from this condition, the answer is not simple. There is rising tension, an almost automatic hand gesture, a brief sense of release, then shame, concealment, hats, wigs, scarves. It is a silent condition, often kept hidden for years, affecting about 1-3% of the population, predominantly young women. ...

Natural remedies for PCOS in adolescent girls Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common hormonal imbalances of reproductive age, and in recent years the diagnosis in adolescents has become increasingly common. Worried mothers bring 14 to 17 year old daughters to the doctor for irregular periods, persistent acne, excessive hair growth, sudden weight gain, or conversely heavy periods accompanied by fatigue. Diagnosis is not easy at this age, because many signs overlap with normal puberty, and young ovaries often have a “polycystic” appearance without actually having the syndrome. ...

OCD Support: Natural Strategies and Real Steps Forward Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one of the most misunderstood mental health conditions, partly because of how “OCD” gets tossed around in everyday language. “I am a little OCD about my sock drawer”, someone jokes. For a person actually living with OCD those words sting, because the condition is not about tidiness or neat columns on a spreadsheet. It is about thoughts that barge into the mind against the will, produce an enormous wave of anxiety, and rituals performed, sometimes for hours, to quiet that anxiety. Time slips away, life narrows, and nobody around seems to understand why you “just cannot stop”. ...

Natural remedies for hormonal acne There is the acne of adolescence we all know, with blackheads on the nose and red pimples on the cheeks. And there is another acne, more insidious, that hits at 25, 30, 35, just when you thought it was over. It appears on the jaw line, the chin, the neck, sometimes going down to the chest and back. It swells slowly under the skin, becomes painful, has no white tip, does not pop. It sits there for a week or two, then leaves a brown mark that persists for months. This is hormonal acne, and classical skincare rules do not work on it. ...