STOP Dermatillomania, Excoriation & Skin Picking! And What is it?

What is dermatillomania? Many of you have asked me to do a video on this, and the DSM calls this issue Excoriation or skin picking disorder. The DSM states that we must have recurrent skin...

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Hey everybody! Today I'm talking aboutexcoriation, otherwise known asskin picking disorder or dermatillomania.What's the diagnostic criteria and whatcauses it? So stay tuned.So like I said, today I'm talking aboutexcoriation or skin picking disorder ordermatillomania or whatever you want tocall it. Obviously because I'm talkingabout a diagnosis, I'm going to read toyou a little bit about the diagnosticcriteria from my handy dandy DSM.And it's actually fairly simple.The diagnostic criteria states thatsomebody must have recurrent skin pickingresulting in skin lesions and haverepeated attempts to decrease or stopthis skin picking. The skin picking must,you know, cause significant distress intheir life so that they cannot funct...