Living with Dermatillomania. How to live with Dermatillomania?

You have to be very diligent and constantly aware of what your hands are doing. You need to learn how to redirect your focus from your skin. I suppose someone with derma could be happy but I don't believe it is possible to really be happy about constantly destroying your skin. You can improve your happiness by not worrying about what others think of your appearance.

Living with dermatillomania can be challenging. Relapses can have a marked effect on mental health and confidence. Friends, family members, coworkers, and strangers may not understand the condition. Sometimes dermatillomania can lead to bullying.

Knowing that there are others out there going through the same thing and that you are not alone is the first step to surviving dermatillomania. There are resources and support groups available to help cope with stigmas, mental health symptoms, and explaining to family and others your symptoms.

Don't be too hard on yourself. Relapses happen, bad picking sessions happen. The important thing is to pick up from it, take care of yourself first and foremost, and not to let it define you. Dermatillomania might have won the battle, but it won't win the war.

Living one day at the time with patience