Co-written with licensed therapist Karen Pickett, EMBRACING DERMATILLOMANIA: Through Pain & Recovery shares Angela Hartlin’s unique recovery from excoriation disorder (aka dermatillomania) after appearing together on the daytime talk show, The Doctors. Angela documents her experiences while receiving 12 weeks of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) to address her compulsive skin picking.
An unofficial sequel to the ground-breaking memoir FOREVER MARKED: A Dermatillomania Diary, this comprehensive recovery guide provides skin pickers with an exclusive look into Angela’s therapy sessions, which leads to her transformational healing from this highly stigmatized mental health condition.
While primarily focused on reversing her skin picking, EMBRACING DERMATILLOMANIA offers insight into other areas of Angela’s life such as chronic pain, disability, and grief, along with other challenges that affect her recovery.
About
Angela documents the struggles she faces each week while providing insight from the challenges that Karen assigns. Journal entries from Angela’s therapy sessions provides feedback about articles, opinions on the material, and other questions she has asked herself to confront her compulsive skin picking behavior.
Karen Pickett‘s contribution highlights key elements of recovery along with showcasing the client/ therapist relationship while providing worksheets and educational material to readers.
Publishing Delay
Due to several circumstances, including Angela’s health, the release of EMBRACING DERMATILLOMANIA has been pending since 2015. Angela and Karen are currently waiting to hear back from literary agents in representing this incredible BFRB recovery resource.
If you are an interested publisher or agent, please contact Angela by email here.
Updates
* Title change! EMBRACING DERMATILLOMANIA: My Skin Picking Recovery is now EMBRACING DERMATILLOMANIA: Through Pain & Recovery
* Additional edits may be made to the cover
Expected Release: 2023/24
In The Media
Though it has not yet been released, EMBRACING DERMATILLOMANIA: Through Pain & Recovery is teased in the 2022 German publication of skin picking recovery stories, Frieden mit meiner Haut, by Ingrid Bรคumer and Christina Gallinat. It has also been mentioned in several podcast appearances and discussed in a The Daily Mail interview in 2023.
