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Body-focused repetitive disorders is an umbrella term in the DSM-5 for disorders where individuals compulsively damage their physical appearance.

These used to be classified as impulse-control disorders, but now belong in the family of obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Two of the more well-known ones are trichotillomania, which is a hair-pulling disorder, and excoriation, which is a skin-picking disorder.

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