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Side-by-side criteria and differential flags.

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Which diagnosis best fits duration, episodicity, and exclusions?

Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder

Recurrent skin picking resulting in skin lesions

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Trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder)

Recurrent pulling out of one's hair, resulting in hair loss

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ICD-10 code

AL98.1

BF63.3

Category

AOCD & Related

BOCD & Related

Core threshold (DSM-5-TR criteria)

AFull criteria not included in this record

BFull criteria not included in this record

Additional criteria

AFull criteria not included in this record

BFull criteria not included in this record

Key features

AA. Recurrent skin picking resulting in skin lesions B. Repeated attempts to decrease or stop the skin picking C. Clinically significant distress or impairment

BA. Recurrent pulling out of one's hair, resulting in hair loss B. Repeated attempts to decrease or stop the hair pulling C. Clinically significant distress or impairment

Common specifiers

AWith good or fair insight; With poor insight; With absent insight / delusional beliefs

BWith good or fair insight; With poor insight; With absent insight / delusional beliefs

Differential flags

ADermatological condition causing skin damage (must exclude primary skin disease); OCD (full obsessions driving behaviour; skin picking as compulsion vs primary disorder); Trichotillomania (hair vs skin; may coexist)

BExcoriation disorder (skin picking vs hair pulling - may coexist); OCD (ego-dystonic, with full obsessions driving behaviour); Alopecia areata or other dermatological cause of hair loss

Severity specifier

ANot listed

BNot listed

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