Living with Dermatillomania Video

Written by HealthyPlace.com Staff Writer

A video on Dermatillomania (also known as compulsive skin picking or CSP). This is an impulse control disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pick at one's own skin, often to the extent that damage is caused. Dermatillomania is also considered a form of self-injury and can be a compulsion of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).

Watch Living with Dermatillomania Video

Katie Rios has been living with Dermatillomania, compulsive skin picking, for more than a decade. She describes how it started, the shame and embarrassment that accompanies Dermatillomania, and Habit Reversal Therapy - a treatment for dermatillomania.

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We invite you to call us at 1-888-883-8045 and share your own experiences with dermatillomania. How has it made you feel? How do you deal with the shame and embarrassment of compulsive skin picking? Have you found any specific dermatillomania treatment useful? (Info on Sharing Your Mental Health Experiences here.)

About Katie Rios, our guest on the Dermatillomania Video

Katie Rios on Dermatillomania Katie is 21 years old and she started compulsive skin picking when she was 11. Katie is currently undergoing Habit Reversal Therapy with an OCDspectrum disorder specialist. She is also doing group therapy with individuals with both Trichotillomania and Dermatillomania. Katie writes a support blog, especifically for those with Dermatillomania where her readers can submit questions, experiences, pictures, videos, etc., for the rest of the group to see and know that they are not alone.