Skin picking

I think I might have dermatillomania. I am not self diagnosing. I get skin picking so bad that my whole back is covered in sores, there's at least 40 of them. I also pick at my head horribly I seriously cannot stop either. I have open sores all over my head and pick and pick and just can never stop. Sometimes I don't notice, and I'm always looking for a spot to pick at. I looked at all the symptoms and ik it runs with ocd. Whenever I get anxious my skin picking becomes very severe. Whenever I wake up I pick at my head too. I seriously don't know how to stop picking and I'm trying to get a diagnostic for dermillomania. I also have started to pick at my nose horribly. I have these blackhesd removers and I keep using them constantly on my face, everytime I'm home from school I use them on my nose and pick at everything on my face.

Anonymous

Date posted: 7w ago

Best thing I can recommend is band aids on your fingers and pimple patches. Also gum, and fidget toys. Definitely if you can and have the resources try to get help for the issues you are experiencing with it. Skin picking is common with OCD. I recently have been trying to be better about it. Recognizing when you do it and trying to be aware during those moments. Like if you know you skin pick during your face wash routine, do it with the light off. Stuff like that. You got this. Try to be kind to yourself.

Fr3ak_0n_4_l...

Date posted: 7w ago

Ty!!!!!

kmkmxo

Date posted: 7w ago

I suffer from it as well and even though it’s been a 10-15 year battle, I’ve developed ways to fight/avoid urges and minimize the triggers that lead to my bad habits/obsessiveness. It’s a huge step in the right direction just recognizing the problem and wanting to stop. I have OCd and anxiety as well and while some people think all the answers are to find the root of your anxiety, it’s not always that simple. It’s all about breaking the bad habits and finding alternative healthy ways to cope. There’s really one thing we all use when we go hard on our face…the mirror. Covering my mirror was the game changer for me. It wasn’t easy and sometimes I ripped the paper off just to pick anyway but over time it helped erased that need or thought. Another thing is to eliminate things that contribute to your skin picking, like tools (black head tool, tweezers, pore strips, exfoliators, etc.). Know you’re not alone. One day at a time.

Fr3ak_0n_4_l...

Date posted: 7w ago

Tysm

Slicey

Date posted: 7w ago

I am a picker as well and am trying to be better about it. I’m sick of my face looking like a war zone. I take Nac - some studies show it may help with the urges.

Fr3ak_0n_4_l...

Date posted: 7w ago

Vee4

Date posted: 25w ago

Question!! Please help!!

I don't know if this is ocd related I just know that my ocd feels unbearable when it happens. From time to time I'll get waves of panic attacks that for me will lasts for a week. 3 days if I'm lucky. Recently I went up to 12 days with on and off panic attacks and barely doing or eating anything. This is the longest that this has lasted. I am a overall very anxious person but these make me want to tear my skin off. Does anybody know what this is?? I brought it up to my mom and asked if it was a panic disorder, but she said she doesn't think I have one because she has one and she said that's not what a panic disorder is. I've told her about the waves of panic attacks before and I'm trying to get therapy but right now I feel terrible. Is this a symptom of ocd ?? Does anyone else go through this?? Does anyone KNOW what this is?? Please lmk and if you have anything that could help please tell me :( (I have diagnosed OCD and GAD if that helps any!!)

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leena445

Date posted: 24w ago

im so confused

im not diagnosed, but these past two days have been terrible. i constantly have this underlying feeling that i might do something that i think is gross and i feel like i can’t do anything on my own because otherwise i might do something wrong. like i feel like i constantly have to be in front of people so that i can make sure of my every action. this is so exhausting and I’m so confused. and like i keep getting terrible images and stuff replaying in my head. i also try to recall what happened but i feel like i have false event too. i used to have religious ocd and that eventually stopped completely, but now it feels like all my work getting over that was pointless. also like i feel like i might have contamination ocd but not the typical germ type. I just get terrible images and I can’t remember if those images are true or not even though they’re impossible and i feel terrible. I don’t know if i could ever get over this because even the thought of it is terrible.

Lilly5679

Date posted: 20w ago

Is it in my head

I have constantly been feeling like if I hit one arm, I have to hit the other and if I set something down and it just didn’t look right or feel right I had to do it again or I had to move it to a different spot in my room I’ve had never been a clean freak, which is mainly what I get told is OCD And I don’t know if I should even have this app. I don’t know if I actually have it. I’m constantly worried that I did something in my past that harmed others and that’s why people don’t like me or I’m constantly worried People are constantly watching me and I don’t know if that’s OCD or if I have it so please tell me I will delete this app and never think of it again if I don’t I just really wanna know

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