Skin Picking: Your Guide to Curing Dermatillomania

I have just read several reviews, not related to amazon reviews, absolutely trashing this book. I totally disagree. One wrote the bad quality and simplicity of the book was a joke...I found that completely refreshing! Picking can be a sign of significant stress, for a college student, who needs thick books over detailing what might be helpful to someone who picks is daunting. I thought her suggestions were doable and not overwhelming. About her products, I believe she mentions home remedies as well as ones she sells. You do not have to buy her products, go find some essential oils on your own. Lavender oil and lemon or basil oils are everywhere now a days. You can buy fresh lemons, honey and Apple cider vinegar at the grocery store. I particularly appreciated her chapter for Loved ones and Families. Again, her simplicity was refreshing!!! When reading the book, I found her attitude to be very positive throughout. Love yourself, have compassion for yourself, forgive yourself, treat yourself with respect and care. I am on board with that!!

This is a look into my life. I am glad to see I am not alone in this strange condition. I always thought I was just "a picker" because I have met a lot of people who claim such throughout my life. However, no one else seems to take it to the extreme that I do. I am obsessed with getting pimples popped, plucking infected hairs, and scratching off ugly scabs. However, my incessant need to remove these things from my body have resulted in more of the same. It is an ugly cycle that is hard to break. This book gives tips and advice on how to break the habit and change it into something better for your body. I'm glad I found it!

The book was helpful and I will use the tips. I did think the book would be longer for the price paid

This book is completely wonderful. As someone who has suffered with dermatilamania and trichotillomania, I can say it has helped me a lot. With a very encouraging, supportive voice it helps you better understand your problem and offers multiple methods of coping. There is even a section at the end for friends and family to read to better understand the disease.The author does recommend her own product because it worked for her, however she offered many other suggestions as well, I never felt like I was being forced or manipulated into buying her product. In my opinion, it was a very genuine offer of something that could help you because it helped her. (I did not purchase any of the products)I highly recommend this to anyone.

it's not readable I want a refund! read a few pages and you will see the paragraphs are malarranged. Help!

The book was shorter than I expected and I thought there would be more detailed material. The material that was there was not that useful.

Amy Foxwell's book Skin Picking: How to Cure Dermatillomania is a book that promises to help any skin picker stop picking at their skin through the methods she mentions within the pages. However, this book is nothing more than a rehashing of anything you can find on the internet despite the supposed "extensive research" that went into writing this book, with tips like stay away from mirrors, don't beat yourself up over it, recognize it's an actual disorder, find other activities to do and journal your progress. It is repetative, contradictory in some areas, and comes across more as a cash grab and product push for her Pick Stop Oil; it even opens with a product disclaimer at the beginning of the text. In addition to this, the book seems to be nothing more than a copy of one or both of her trichotillomania books, as it addresses eyelash pulling and hair picking in two areas, rather than skin picking, suggesting that she copied and pasted the text and forgot to change the wording in those sentences. Overall, this book is disappointing, especially if Amy Foxwell is actually a skin picker and hair puller because she should understand the suffering of the disorders and she shouldn't want to be making money off of sufferers.Save your money, don't buy it.

Don't buy it. It is poorly written and is her opinion only. Everything in this book can be found in a google search.

great thanks

I'm sure there were good intentions behind this book, but nonetheless it is not what you would expect. A significant amount of this book is empty pages for your own 'diary' and the print is large and spaced out - all resulting in very little actual material.The material itself is also nothing that you cannot read online, or probably already know from common sense or your own research. Overall, not worth the price and unfortunately I would not recommend purchasing this.

Obviously the dimensions of this book are available in the product description, but I was still surprised at its slightness. It is only about forty pages in length, and is written in large type with lots of spaces. The book repeats itself quite a lot, presumably in order to bulk itself out.It says in the product description that it includes some skin oil and a workbook, which sounds impressive, but the workbook is just about ten pages saying things like "comments" and "feelings" followed by empty lines for you to fill in. Considering the author had already explained twice, in two different sections, what to include in such a journal, this simple, word-processed format is hardly a revelation. The order price of £13.39 doesn't actually include the skin oil the product description mentions, there is just a "special 10% reader discount" included in the oil's special little advert section which masquerades as an actual informative part of the book.As a previous reviewer mentioned, there is nothing in this book that you couldn't find for free online. It mentions visualization and auto-hypnosis as useful tools to try, which I will, but the book's scant description of the process could easily be replaced by searching online for something similar, or even something more substantial. Her main message seems to be that dermatillomamia is real, treatable condition, and that you need a real plan to tackle it. Her tips for plan-formation are basically to identify your triggers, where and when you most often pick, and to both keep a written track of these as well as a journal for your emotions. Once you've identified where and when you most often pick you should implement alternative activities. Oh, and avoid mirrors, which made me laugh since if it were that easy I wouldn't have been picking since I was twelve.There is nothing outright wrong contained in this book, it's just a massive let-down. The author is just capitalising on the complete lack in the market of self-help manuals such as this for skin-pickers. This, I must earn, does not at all fill the gap.