I Am a Compulsive Skin Picker

I've suffered from it as long as I can remember. I tend to focus on my shoulders and chest area, both of which are covered in stupid scars.
I just learned that it has a name a few weeks ago, and i set up a group called "I have...

I'm having an overwhelming urge to pick tonight, and lately my picking has been spiraling out of control which is overwhelmingly frustrating and discouraging. So, I figured that it would be best for me to write a little update about...

When i'm not picking my skin, i get irritated ... VERY irritated. I pull my hair and freak, i rock back and forth.. i go crazy if i dont pick.. i have to pick. i dont know whats wrong with me..

I am a Compulsive Skin Picker. I started when I was about 12. I had a hair on my left breast and I keep messing with it until I pulled it out. Somehow my picking moved to my armpits. Now I pick at...

I think I pick at my skin because the dry skin fascinates me. I don't know why. At one point I thought I should be a dermatologist just so I could study skin. My fascination with dry skin started in second grade. I put a finger in...

I don't remember exactly how it started, but when I was younger I picked (I don't know if that's exactly the right word, maybe tore at) the skin on the soles of my feet. It was really bad. I always had to wear socks, and sometimes I...

It's been going on since I was 8 or 9. I noticed little bumps on my upper arms (known as keratosis pilaris or follicular keratosis) and then noticed them on my forearms, then thighs, etc....I'm pretty sure it's a transference issue...

Such a bad habit. I don't know why it started.
I pick at my face, my legs, well anywhere really...
It's an impulse control issue. Acting impulsively and destructively, ignoring the long-term consequences. In this case, the long...

for some reason i cant seem to stop picking at the skin around my nails. sometimes i can go for a few days without doing it but i always go back to biteing and picking at my nails. i honestly cant remeber when i started doing it but im...

I never realized that dematillomania even existed before I saw a reality show about a compulsive skin picker on television. Since the age of 16, I have attributed my picking to being neurotic and crazy. Which I probably am; still, it...

hi. i pick at stuff whenever i feel something isn't even. it's just another part of my ocd. the reason i really was writing this here though, was to offer a bit of advice. i know for me the worst of it has always been picking at pimples...

I did'nt know that what I've done for almost 14 years of my life was a disorder or even had a name until last night. Ifelt relieved because Ifound out that there are people like me who do this. I have tried so many differnt things to...

Ok so heres my story. Over the past year or so I hav developed this conpulsive skin picking. It takes about 30  to sometimes 40 min of my time in the morning. I quit smoking about nine months ago and I now find my self tearing my...

with my mom. I used to watch her pick behind her ear, also legs, arms and back. I would request to pick behind her ear for her, because she had something back there that would rub off... still not sure what it was. I think I was maybe 4...

i never thought about it until i wrote the title, but its true.  i've never tried to stop picking my lip.  i pick at it all the time.  when i am bored, when i am nervous, when i am reading, when i am listening to someone...

This Addiction........

allows me to make excuses

causes me to make illogical rationalizations

makes me skip like a record in a self defeating cycle of shame

wastes hours upon hours of my time

diverts my focus...

Dermatillomania is a disorder which causes a sufferer an overwhelming urge to pick at one’s own skin to the extent that damage is caused.

It is currently defined as an impulse control disorder but there are still questions about how...

For my fingers.... They are bleeding now all the time from chewing the life out of them. I cannot stop, its like an addiction. Like being addicted to smoking, or just biting your nails... It's seriously weir-ding people out and i feel...

Hi.  I am a compulsive skin picker.
I started picking my scalp at the age of 13 (I’m 35 now). I have tried and tried to stop picking, but it is so hard. I feel as if I am some kind of addict. I try to take it...

I pop pimples and then when they scab over, I pick the scabs off of them. Sometimes the scab will come back and then I'll pick it again. I do thus until it scars. Then I hide behind makeup whenever I go out. I have scabs and scars all...