Accepting My Skin Picking: Is This Really Recovery?
What if I stopped fighting my skin picking? What if I stopped begging for a cure? What if I stopped agonizing over and hating it? What if I just let it be? What if I accepted it? Those are...
What if I stopped fighting my skin picking? What if I stopped begging for a cure? What if I stopped agonizing over and hating it? What if I just let it be? What if I accepted it? Those are...
Angela Hartlin has a long history with excoriation (skin-picking) disorder (also called dermatillomania). You may be familiar with her story, but if not, the disorder had a grip on her life from a young age. During her teens and...
If you’re familiar with the Canadian BFRB Support Network’s story at all, then you know that the organization started as a small gathering of people with trichotillomania and other body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) in our founder’s living room. It...
Sometimes we can feel like we can only share our story if we have a piece of sage advice to share, or the answer to burning questions, but that’s not the case. At CBSN, sharing our stories, no matter...
Why do we stop sometimes without even trying? This is a question that I ask myself a lot. I have been pulling my hair for 18 years and biting my nails for basically my whole life (30 years). While...
Dear parents, I’ve seen your online posts and have heard stories from your children. I get it. You’re frustrated because you don’t quite understand and because you want the best for your child. You want your child to be...
When most of us think of recovery, we probably first think of it in terms of abstinence. Shows like Intervention and many different talk shows that feature people who are in recovery talk about an absence of substance use....