DisorderDiagnostic criteriaClinical featuresPreferred treatment
  • Body dysmorphic disorder

  • Preoccupation with perceived defects or flaws in physical appearance that leads to repetitive behaviors or mental acts in response to the apparent concerns

  • Poor insight

  • Seeks care from dermatologists and cosmetic surgeons to address perceived defects

  • Symptom onset during adolescence

  • Waxing and waning course

  • Cognitive behavior therapy (exposure and response prevention)

  • Some evidence for SSRIs

  • Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder

  • Recurrent skin picking resulting in skin lesions

  • Repeated attempts to decrease or stop skin picking

  • More common in females

  • Symptom onset at the beginning of puberty

  • Habit reversal therapy

  • Limited studies evaluating response to pharmacotherapy

  • Hoarding disorder

  • Persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions because of strong urges to save items and/or distress with discarding items

  • Accumulation of possessions to a degree that the space where possessions accumulate cannot be used as intended

  • 75% of patients with hoarding disorder have comorbid mood or anxiety disorders

  • The hoarding causes significant distress or impairment in function

  • Symptom onset between 11 and 15 years of age

  • Symptoms or hoarding behaviors progressively worsen

  • Behavior therapy targeted toward removal of hoarded items and reduction in accumulation of new items

  • No data to support pharmacotherapy

  • Trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder)

  • Recurrent pulling of hair from any part of the body resulting in hair loss

  • Repeated attempts to decrease or stop hair pulling

  • More common in females

  • Symptom onset at the beginning of puberty

  • Habit reversal therapy

  • Mixed to poor response to SSRIs