EMBRACING DERMATILLOMANIA: Through Pain & Recovery Kindle Edition

Embracing Dermatillomania: Through Pain & Recovery chronicles Angela Hartlin's road to recovery from excoriation disorder (aka dermatillomania, compulsive skin picking/scratching) after receiving an exclusive opportunity for professional help following an appearance on the daytime talk show, The Doctors, in 2015.Co-authored with Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB) expert, Karen Pickett, LMFT, Embracing Dermatillomania not only offers intimate details of Hartlin's perspective as a client, but Pickett's expertise and feedback throughout each therapy session, incorporating logging sheets used for behavioral tracking along with other educational material presented throughout their 12 weeks together.Written in journal form as a sequel to Hartlin's ground-breaking memoir, Forever Marked: A Dermatillomania Diary, this comprehensive step-by-step mental health guide explores a variety of strategies which assists in reducing or eliminating skin picking and other BFRBs including:Therapies: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Habit Reversal Therapy (HRT)Tools: Logging, Mindfulness Exercises, Blockers & Barriers, Fidget ToysConcepts: Emotional Regulation, Cognitive Distortions, Defusion, Evolutionary Biology, Energy PsychologyThis unique patient/practitioner collaboration also delves into "fight or flight" mode, habit chains, challenging "permission-giving statements," riding the wave of an urge, values... and much more!Hartlin divulges her challenges in maintaining abstinence from the behavior a decade after therapy, insight about what she learned throughout the process, and shares what was most effective for her in this transformative, yet harrowing, journey to healing. Read more