Welcome to the BFRB Podcast with your host Jose Alvear, LMSW. In this episode, I talk about body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) such as skin picking and hair pulling (trichotillomania). I also discuss how these disorders impact their social, physical and mental health. Finally, I open up about my own struggles with skin picking disorder and how I started the blog Diary of a Skin Picker and how I came to be the host of this show.
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For those of you who don’t know what compulsive skin picking – which is also known as Dermatillomania – is, it’s where a person repetitively picks at their skin to the extent where visible damaged is caused.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/27/what-its-like-to-live-with-compulsive-skin-picking-disorder-6807721/?ito=cbshare