Autodestructive dermatoses: neurotic excoriations
Hands-off tactics
For more than a century, psychology has taught us that much of human behavior is not what it seems. This applies to both mentally healthy people and those whose psyche uses different mechanisms to express unconscious conflicts. In difficult times, such conditions can progress.
Dysmorphism is characterized by a person's obsessive ideas that others have an unpleasant physical defect, with fixation on minor dermatological anomalies (wrinkles, hyperemia, thin skin, peeling, pronounced vascular pattern, sebum secretion, excessive hair, or vice versa baldness). Elena Snigur tells about the clinical picture of the disease, etiology and treatment tactics.