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I want to know what is the difference between dermatillomania and dermatophagia?
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Dermatillomania: Dermatillomania is an impulse control disorder with compulsive skin picking. Dermatophagia is impulse control disorder with compulsive biting of skin.
Answered 8/4/2013
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