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- Skin-picking disorder is marked by compulsive skin-picking that leads to noticeable skin damage, with individuals making repeated efforts to stop without success.
- It causes significant issues in various aspects of life, including social and professional situations, and cannot be attributed to other emotional or skin conditions.
- The DSM-V recognizes it as a separate impulse-control disorder, often associated with emotional problems, and may require treatment involving both therapists and psychiatrists for severe cases.
Article Abstract
The disorder is characterized by compulsive repetitive skin-picking (SP), resulting in skin lesions. The patients must have undertaken several attempts to reduce or stop SP. The disorder must have led to clinically significant limitations in social, professional, or other important areas of life. The symptoms cannot be better explained by another emotional disorder or any other dermatological disease. In the new DSM-V, skin-picking disorder has been included in the diagnostic system as an independent disorder and describes the self-injury of the skin by picking or scratching with an underlying emotional disorder. SP is classified among the impulse-control disorders and is, thus, differentiated from compulsive disorders as such. There are often emotional comorbidities. In cases of pronounced psychosocial limitation, interdisciplinary cooperation with a psychotherapist and/or psychiatrist is indicated.
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