Along with hair-pulling and skin-picking, nail biting is under consideration to be included as an OCD-spectrum disorder in the the DSM-5. “The beauty is that a categorization in the DSM-V gives it a whole new light … And the research institutions can have a unified definition and approach that will lead to drug company and NIH funding.”
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