title: A Case of Skin Picking Disorder of a Patient with a History of Childhood Abuse.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Dicle University School of Medicine, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
authors.forename: Aslıhan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Okan Ibiloğlu
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Dicle University School of Medicine, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
authors.forename: Abdullah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atli
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Dicle University School of Medicine, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet Cemal
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Kaya
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Dicle University School of Medicine, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
authors.forename: Süleyman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Dicle University School of Medicine, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mahmut
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bulut
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Dicle University School of Medicine, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
authors.forename: Aytekin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sir
keywords: Self-injurious behavior; borderline personality disorder; childhood abuse; psychogenic skin excoriation; skin picking disorder