Tag: Skin picking
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Habitual Scratching: A Skin-Damaging Behaviour
Habitual scratching is one of a range of skin-damaging behaviours As a psychodermatologist, I am a psychiatrist and I work with dermatologists. Sometimes I explain, especially about atopic eczema, that while a dermatologist deals more with the itching, as a psychiatrist I am more focused on the scratching. Itch can have emotional causes – it…
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From The Clinic #14: How knitting Helped Eczema Heal
Particular skin habits may need special attention! When she came for her third clinic visit Mary was delighted that over the last two weeks using The Combined Approach her scratching frequency was down from a maximum 630 episodes daily at base-line to now an average 55 episodes daily. Her skin was healing fast. She was…