Usually means: Obsessive pulling out one's hair.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (phaneromania)

noun:  An uncontrollable impulse to pick at a spot or growth on one's body; the habit of picking at scabs, biting one's nails, or picking pimples.
noun:  The constant preoccupation with some external part of the body, as plucking the beard, pulling the lobe of the ear, etc.

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