The Vicious Cycles
While many skin pickers know of the main vicious cycle in our daily lives, there is an underlying cycle that keeps many of us repressed and discouraged. The one we know about is the internal cycle that...
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Empowerment Through Advocacy
A lot of people ask me how I had the courage to “come out” and advocate for an illness so shameful that most of the world doesn’t even know it exists. Some believe that picking your skin is a...
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You Understand Less, When You Claim You Do
In an honest effort to connect and relate to someone in a situation you have never been in before, would you ever tell: …a diabetic that you also worry about your blood sugar because chocolate cake...
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Help Me Get on the Dr. Phil Show!
I have a personal request to ask of everyone who comes across this post, sufferer or supporter. I have recently made a plea on Facebook to get Dr. Phil’s attention about having an episode on his show...
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BFRB Ribbons for Awareness Week!
With support for Dermatillomania, Trichotillomania, and other BFRB’s expanding worldwide a new awareness ribbon that represents this community has been established! Not only do these green with blue...
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60 Reasons Why We Need BFRB Awareness
Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB’s) is the term for a group of Obsessive- Compulsive and related disorders that describes someone who engages in a chronic behavior causing damage to oneself in...
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Resource Review: Laura Barton’s “Project Dermatillomania: The Stories Behind...
Compiled by Laura Barton, Project Dermatillomania: The Stories Behind Our Scars is an easy read containing 11 stories of people with Excoriation Disorder who met each other through the Facebook group...
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The Best Way to Describe Depression to a “Non-Believer”
The following article was rejected by The Huffington Post due to its length and although it isn’t discussing Dermatillomania, I felt it was relevant to publish here as it concerns mental health in...
View Article“My Skin Picking Is Worse Than Yours”
I have grown a bit concerned about a certain mentality among many skin pickers, one that I used to have myself in the form of reasoning how severely affected someone’s life is with Dermatillomania...
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I Needed BFRB Awareness in Grade School
It wasn’t until the end of my first semester of my first year in university that I first heard the term Psychogenic Excoriation. In December of 2004, it was my Dermatologist who broke the news that the...
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