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- Title
A Case of Skin Picking Disorder of a Patient with a History of Childhood Abuse.
- Authors
İBİLOĞLU, Aslıhan OKAN; ATLI, Abdullah; KAYA, Mehmet Cemal; DEMİR, Süleyman; BULUT, Mahmut; SIR, Aytekin
- Abstract
Skin picking (excoriation) disorder is the recurrent excoriation of one's own skin, resulting in noticeable skin damage. People pick their skin for different reasons. For the majority of patients, first skin picking is associated with a history of childhood abuse and personal problems. Subjects who moderately to severely cause injurious self-harm are more likely to have a history of exposure to domestic violence and childhood abuse than those who do not self-harm. At the same time, these conditions could be related to the etiology for majority of other psychiatric disorders. We report herein, a case of a patient with skin picking disorder who had a history of childhood physical and emotional abuse with borderline personality disorder.
- Subjects
ADULT child abuse victims; BORDERLINE personality disorder; COMPULSIVE skin picking; PSYCHOLOGICAL factors
- Publication
Archives of Neuropsychiatry / Nöropsikiyatri Arşivi, 2016, Vol 53, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
1300-0667
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5152/npa.2015.10110