beat dermatillomania

For anyone who is trying to beat this, I looked through various help sites for dermatillomania + self-harm sites and came up with this, hope it is of use!: http://tinyurl.com/cspfree

I’ve decided I might periodically write entries about this since it’s one of my top goals, plus there’s such a hopeless vibe about it out there – I don’t want to deal with this ‘one day at a time’ for the rest of my life, I want to eliminate it! Right now, I’m reading this book called ‘Changing for Good’ that has helped me a lot already; it’s about progressing through stages in order to break away an addiction / bad habit…I would highly recommend it: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46680.Changing_for_Good I’d found a group on Livejournal about dermatillomania as well: http://community.livejournal.com/csp_support/

I tend to refer to it as CSP ordinarily though since thinking of it as a disorder of some sort seems to block me from actually changing it. I think it’s a blend of obsessive compulsive checking, body dysmorphic perception, and self-harm (at least in my case) – I’m sure there might be some genetic or mental predisposition towards choosing this habit, however I don’t think it’s impossible to stop – besides, even reducing the habit would be better than escalating it, which is what I am aiming to do. I’ve been dealing with this since I was 11 or 12 and I am 20 now, though I only found out there was a term for it around 17 or so, so I’ve not been actively working for change all that long!