Meryl DeCosta

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1,272 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Aug

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SkinPick: Honest conversations about skin picking (excoriation disorder) · Supporting Someone with Skin Picking: Your Questions Answered · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

You didn't select which genes you want to pass on to your kids.

So I first and foremost, if

Anything um comes out of this answer, I want you to know that it's not your fault.

And there are so many things that you can do.

Um, if you are pulling or picking in front of them, there are ways that you can um address the behaviors afterwards that is really helpful to you know to them.

They can start learning.

how you deal with the aftermath of your picking and pulling.

That can be really helpful.

Um again it it can be really challenging uh from a toddler perspective.

They may not understand very much, their their um self-awareness, their language um can be limited, um again, their their motivation.

So again, it's just looking at okay, what what can I do?

Um are there perhaps games we can play?

Is there positive reinforcement?

How can I talk to them about emotions that is in a in an appropriate way to speak to a toddler that they can understand?

Are there what we call competing responses?

So are there barriers that I can put in place to help prevent them from pulling their hair?

So is it caps?

Is it scarves?

Can it be um those sort of um

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