This guest piece comes from Danielle Roberts. Danielle is a Canadian freelance writer who graduated from the University of Calgary in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She is an avid runner, reader and mental health advocate...
I was one of those people who thought I would never be in a relationship. A lot of different things made me believe that, but one of the biggest reasons I thought that was because of my skin picking...
The following is an excerpt from Annette Pasternak, Ph.D’s new skin picking self-help book, Skin Picking: The Freedom to Finally Stop, which can be found in e-book form on amazon.com and through Kobo. ———- Congratulations! Please give yourself an appreciative...
A special thanks to the pullers and pickers in the online community that commented and added to the dialogue on this topic. I have quoted some of you and paraphrased others, but have left all of your comments anonymous....
More or less once Hallowe’en is done here in Canada, the Christmas/holiday decorations start going up. They’ve already been available in stores since Thanksgiving, but after October 31st is when it really starts getting laid on us thick. Commercials...
Guest Blogger Samantha Wake shares with us the story of her journey with dermatillomania. ———- It began in my early teens, around age 13, when I started to get acne just like any other teenager. Having said this, I’d...
“You can’t resolve other people’s issues, but you can sit with them and share the burden of their pain, thereby lightening it.” – Yehuda Berg When someone we love is suffering, one of the first things we want to...
“I thought I was the only one!” “I didn’t know it was an actual disorder!” I see these kinds of messages all the time, whether it’s posted in a Facebook group, or even on Tumblr, these messages are a...