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There would be many other relevant publications/books but I found the following articles/books very enlightening as I researched my unusual habit endeavoring to make sense of it all.

Author: Pete Walker

The Tao of Fully Feeling

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

At different times, apart from my ongoing engagement with my psychologist, I also engaged with the following services:

- Mayo Clinic Employees and Learners / Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being programs and resources program

- The Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery

- Annie Wright / Relational Trauma Recovery Specialist

- Psychology Today: Clinical Psychologist / Sexologist Support

As well, the following links:

Borderline Personality Disorder, Trauma, and Compulsive Foreign Body Insertion (Polyembolokoilamania) in a 62-Year-Old Patient

BPD, Trauma, and Polyembolokoilamania: A Case Study Analysis - medtigo Journal

Inner Child, Inner Parent, Inner Adult

Psychology Talk and the 3 Parts that Make up Our Inner Selves

Emotional Dysregulation / Rectal Polyembolokoilamania sites relevant to my personal research

Insertion of Foreign Bodies (polyembolokoilamania): Underpinnings and Management Strategies:

Insertion of Foreign Bodies (polyembolokoilamania): Underpinnings and Management Strategies - PMC

A website, part of the Self-Injury & Recovery Resources research program at Cornell University, summarizes their work and provides links and resources to self injury information.

The Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery

What is emotion regulation and how do we do it?

https://www.selfinjury.bctr.cornell....info-brief.pdf

Foreign Body (FB) Insertion is a Common Presentation in
Emergency Surgery and Gastroenterology:

https://www.clinicsinsurgery.com/ope...ology-3820.pdf

**** manipulation as a source of sexual pleasure:

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3...58697678010024

Rectal Foreign Bodies: Surgical Management and the Impact of Psychiatric Illness:

https://www.cureus.com/articles/1031...iatric-illness

Successful Retrieval of a Retained Rectal Foreign Body in the Emergency Department:

https://www.cureus.com/articles/9941...ncy-department