Supporting Someone with Skin Picking: Your Questions Answered
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SkinPick: Honest conversations about skin picking (excoriation disorder)
1h 11m
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7 chapters
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What is the purpose of this live Q&A on supporting someone with a BFRB?
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There we go. So welcome everyone. Um for those who are a bit confused, is this a a webinar on fidgets? No, it's not, but we always love talking about fidgets. Um Laura to me is the Mary Poppins of Fidgets. Uh if you want to understand it a little bit better, go watch her fidget webinar and you'll see quite quickly. Um she has a couple fidgets and then they just keep coming and coming and coming and coming out of the box. Um and I love fidgets too. I always have them around. So it's always nice just to share with each other what we got for the day. But today's webinar, um, I'm really looking forward to this one. Um, so we are going to be talking about it's a Q ⁇ A. But it's going to be specifically about support.
So just again, uh a welcome to everyone to our very special Q ⁇ A session. So whether you are a parent or a partner or a family member, a friend, or someone living with a body focused repetitive behavior or a BFIB, which is skin picking, hair pulling, or even biting. Or if you're a clinician just wanting to better support others, we are so glad that you have joined us. So today's webinar is all about what meaningful support really looks like. And we'll be answering common questions, clearing up maybe some misconceptions, and sharing practical ways to support someone living with a BFRB. My name is Merrill DeCosta. I am a counsellor and a parent of two children with BFRBs, one with hair polling and one with skin picking.
And joining me is Laura Satner, one of our therapists here at Skin Pick and Trickstar. She's also a poetry therapist, but she also has lived experience of skin picking and hair polling. So together we bring both professional and personal perspectives, allowing us to explore these questions from both sides. So throughout this webinar, we'll be running a few interactive polls just to make it a little bit interesting and get you involved um and to hear your thoughts because that's This is what we're doing this for. And we'll begin with some questions that were submitted in advance. And then we'd like to ask answer some of your questions live. So please feel free at any time during the webinar, during the session.
to add your question to the chat box and we'll do our best to answer them as best as we can. Okay. So I hope you guys enjoy and just maybe for some context, myself and Laura did a very similar session about two, maybe three weeks ago. Um, we were speaking specifically about um lived experience and uh a professional perspective as we both have um both um uh areas of of of experience. And we were speaking specifically sharing our personal journeys and stories. So if you're interested in learning a little bit more about Laura or about myself and how we've navigated our lived experience through our clinical practice, you're welcome to go watch that webinar as well. And again, if you're not sure how to access that, you can just let us know.
So Laura, I want to get to know the participants of this webinar a little bit better. So I have put together a poll. Let's take a look. So I'm gonna launch it. You're welcome to see what applies to you. Let us know. So who are you here for? Are you here for yourself? You have a BFIB. Are you a parent? Are you a partner or spouse? Or are you a clinician or a pro a professional looking to support your clients? Or are you another family member or friend or something else? You can let us know. So so yeah. It's a little bit of everybody. A little bit of everyone. I'm going to share this with everyone so we can all see. It also helps us just to get to know, okay, who we who are we talking to? Are we talking to mostly people with BFRBs or are there a lot of parents on here?
I think everyone has had a chance. I'm gonna end it. It should ask me and share results. Okay, so maybe you guys find this interesting. Forty-eight percent of participants here have a BFRB themselves. Twenty-two percent are a parent. Then we go down to seventeen percent are clinicians or professionals, and then nine percent of participants um are another family member or friend, and then four percent are a partner and spouse.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this live Q&A on supporting someone with a BFRB?
0:00–12:54
2
How do the poll results reveal who is listening and what they need?
12:54–26:46
3
How can I best support someone living with a BFRB?
26:46–40:07
4
Why do I feel frustrated when the person keeps saying they want to stop but nothing changes?
40:07–53:32
5
What is the hardest part of supporting someone with a BFRB?
53:32–1:00:22
6
How can I support a child aged 6‑10 with a BFRB when motivation is low?
1:00:22–1:08:31
7
What evening routine helps calm the mind before sleep for someone with a BFRB?
1:08:31–1:11:53