Back in October 2016 I wrote my first Mighty story To the Parents With Kids Who Pick Their Noses (Hint: That’s Everyone) as a way to reach out to people and introduce the idea of the truly damaging effects of dermatillomania (skin picking) and rhinotillexomania (nose picking).
I was not ready to be “The Face” of either of these conditions, but I was ready to share my story. I was overwhelmed with the positive response my story received not only from readers but from the body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) community.
My story about rhinotillexomania was one of the first that many had ever read, as it is such a shameful topic for our society.
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