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==Rhinotillexomania== When nose picking becomes a [[body-focused repetitive behavior]] or [[obsessive–compulsive disorder]] it is known as rhinotillexomania.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez Medical papers] at [[PubMed]]</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=L.F. |last=Fontenelle |author2=M.V. Mendlowicz |author3=T.C. Mussi |author4=C. Marques |author5=M. Versiani |title=The man with the purple nostrils: a case of rhinotrichotillomania secondary to body dysmorphic disorder |journal=[[Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica]] |volume=106 |issue=6 |pages=464–6; discussion 466 |date=December 2002 |pmid=12392491 |doi=10.1034/j.1600-0447.2002.01463.x |s2cid=31444068 }}</ref><ref name="AAMFT">[http://www.aamft.org/families/Consumer_Updates/Body-focusedRepetitiveDisorders.asp AAMFT Consumer Update – Hair Pulling, Skin Picking and Biting: Body-Focused Repetitive Disorders] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425095847/http://www.aamft.org/families/Consumer_Updates/Body-focusedRepetitiveDisorders.asp |date=2009-04-25 }}, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy</ref><ref>[[Etymology]]: from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''rhino'' (from [[wikt:ῥίς|ῥίς]], ''rhis'', "nose") + τίλλειν (''tillein'', "to pull") + ''exo'' "out" (or according to an alternative analysis, from Neolatin ''tillexis'', "habit of picking", from Greek ''tillein'' and [[wikt:έξη|έξη]], ''éksi'', "habit") + [[mania]].</ref> Most cases do not meet this pathological threshold.<ref name=jefferson1995/> When it does, however, treatments similar to other BFRBs can be employed, such as [[habit reversal training]] and [[Decoupling for body-focused repetitive behaviors|decoupling]].
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