Manual № 42 · Hair pulling and skin picking

IdleHands

The manual for hair pulling and skin picking.

Body-focused repetitive behaviors, and the training that actually helps.

12 modules — for the person who pulls, picks, or bites and cannot seem to stop

  1. 01What This Actually Is
  2. 02Wounds, Infection, and What Needs a Doctor
  3. 03Learning to Catch Your Own Hand
  4. 04What Each Episode Is Actually For
  5. 05Automatic and Focused Are Two Different Problems
  6. 06What Your Hands Do Instead
  1. 07Changing the Setting
  2. 08Giving the Senses Something Else
  3. 09When It Is Doing an Emotional Job
  4. 10Shame, Hiding, and Telling People
  5. 11If It Is Your Child
  6. 12Regrowth, Lapses, and the Long Run

Two editions

Themanual,orthemanualand the toolkit.

Standard edition

$39

The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.

Elite edition · most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from and how good the evidence for it actually is, to use alongside this program rather than instead of it. With original diagrams throughout.

Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.

Inside The Toolkit

  1. 01The Chain, Link by Link
  2. 02Catching It Earlier
  3. 03Holding the Position
  4. 04Assembling the Whole Method
  5. 05Mapping the Danger
  6. 06Buying Yourself Seconds
  7. 07Matching the Sensation
  1. 08Riding the Urge Out
  2. 09Making Room Instead of Fighting
  3. 10What This Is For
  4. 11Saying What You Feel, Exactly
  5. 12When the Feeling Is Too Big, or Too Small
  6. 13The Mirror and the Search
  7. 14Lapse, Not Collapse

Educational content — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for a clinician when one is needed. Every manual opens with a safety page. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now.