Your Clinical Twin: AI Support Built Around Therapeutic Expertise
Built by a psychologist, Ecko Health is an AI mental health platform designed to reduce admin burden and support continuity of care between sessions.
Designed as an extension of your clinical self, Ecko learns your style and remembers what matters across your caseload.
Our interview with Ecko’s Clinical Lead explores what it means to use AI in a way that strengthens rather than replaces the human side of therapy.
Obsession or Just Experimental? Abnormal or Not?
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For more than four years now, our 16-year-old daughter totally refuses to cut or trim down her fingernails. She is extremely focussed on her nails, avoiding quite a lot activities in order not to harm them, or simply gazing at her hands throughout the day.
Any attempt from either her parents or her friends to make her realize that she should cut them back is fiercely being withdrawn. Her main argument is that 'they are me and belong to me'.
What could be the origin of this obsession? Are any similar cases known? Could this behaviour simply be related to puberty or could there be a deeper cause? What would be a way to influence or interrupt this behaviour eventually?