Overcoming Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors

A Comprehensive Behavioral Treatment for Hair Pulling and Skin Picking

De: Charles S. Mansueto PhD, Sherri Mansfield Vavrichek LCSW-C, Ruth Goldfinger Golomb LCPC, Jennifer Raikes - foreword

Narrado por: Daniela Acitelli

A comprehensive treatment plan grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you overcome body-focused repetitive behaviors for good!

If you have body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRB) such as hair pulling (trichotillomania) or skin picking (dermatillomania), you may feel embarrassed about seeking help. But there are proven-effective strategies you can use to overcome these behaviors and improve your overall quality of life—this book will show you how.

In this evidence-based resource, three renowned experts and clinicians offer powerful CBT skills to help you move past BFRB. You'll learn why you engage in these behaviors, and how to identify your own sensory "triggers"—places, things, or experiences that cause your behavior to become worse. Finally, you'll learn strategies to use when faced with these triggers, and develop your own customized "plan of action" for moving beyond BFRB for good.

With time, practice, and solid skills for managing stress, anxiety, urges, and other triggers, this book will help you break free from BFRB and feel more in control of your life.

©2019 Charles S. Mansueto, Sherri Mansfield Vavrichek, and Ruth Golomb (P)2022 Tantor

Could have been 1/2 the length and talk, would have doubled the impact

Essentially good. Worth the price and I do recommend this book, but with qualifications.

CONS

- Overextended with vague acronyms, confusing; in that the primary system and sub-systems are indirectly elucidated. Could not really keep track.

- Just simply TALKS TOO MUCH. 6 hours, cannot process all being said. Wished they would just say it. Instead, the book (in Audible form) seems to maintain a clinical hyper-precise, depersonalized tone giving one a tone of public service announcements from governmentally funded organization like the CDC etc. wished the narrator would have just spoken in more natural manner.

- Somehow there is an underlying absence of explanation as to WHY people persist in Body-Focused-Repetitive-Behaviors (BFRD’s …. You’ll hear this 1000 times). It as if we really don’t know why this happens - but we do know what the common patterns are and things you can do to change.
OK, not bad though would have preferred a meta-explanation for it all. Perhaps there just isn’t one. (There is attempt to attribute causation to both inherited tendencies and circumstantial habit formation…but this is the same old psychologist-speak for “there are various factors we can’t really be sure”. I think they could have tried harder on this area.

* My own take away is this problem is a maladaptive pattern to a perceived flaw in one’s body. The BFRD is a compulsive effort to repair oneself while in injuring oneself.

PROS

- the actual substance is good if you’re patient. The authors definitely do know what they’re talking about.,

- delves into every minute aspect of this problem. Probably could not find any book with this degree of precise understanding

- interesting dive into the flow from unconscious to conscious repetitive triggers.

- Bravely discusses unpleasant facts related to this. Not for the faint of heart (I put this in as a PRO)

- Ironically, while I doubt I will remember the steps and components (because they are too embedded into the anecdotes and cases) the very act of going through this book will make you greatly more conscious of your problem and boost your confidence that you can stop it. At least in my case (cuticle pulling).

I bite the insides of my cheeks…

It didn’t address this problem specifically, but it was very helpful. Advice: increasing my awareness and noticing triggers, especially during transition times, creating an alternative activity to do, and reframing in my mind a solution that leaving my cheeks alone, will get them smoother than chipping away at the rough spots.

Thanks!!

This really gave me many ideas on how to change my habit! It is factual yet compassionate as well, which I really needed.

Recommend for anyone with picking habits!

This book was very helpful. I have a better understanding of triggers of my picking and I'm making great progress in reducing the number of picking episodes. Knowing that there are so many others who suffer with picking and that it is a real condition helps me feel less ashamed.

Help for skin picking finally

I liked the book. Felt the narrator was robotic. Still great resource! Thank you for this.

Empowering

This book is short, practical, and helpful! It has already made a positive impact on my life

Excellent and very helpful!

I got this book for HPD. I listen to its little bit every day and that helps me to become more and more aware of my habits and to stop sooner. I also realized that I am not alone in this and that I feel very optimistic that I will be able to overcome a habit that I have had for over 30 years! Thank you to the authors for creating the Audible version!

Extremely practical and engaging

I loved the easy step by step guidelines that I could implement as I was reading the book. I felt hopeful for the first time in combating my skin picking and cheek chewing. I printed out the bonus documents to follow along and they are immensely helpful!