How Your Sleep Patterns Affect Skin Picking and Overall Mental Health

Psycho-education
Apr 25th, 2025

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Sleep plays an important role in mental health, yet many people with skin picking struggle with poor sleep, exhaustion, and stronger urges. In this session, we’ll talk about how lack of sleep can affect your emotions, stress levels, and ability to manage urges - making skin picking harder to cope with. 
You’ll learn why good sleep helps your brain recover, how poor sleep can create a cycle of urges, and what the research says about sleep and picking. We’ll also share simple tips to improve your sleep and create a calming bedtime routine to support your recovery.