I mostly pick my fingers and cuticles. When there's nothing left, I sometimes go to my big toes and the soles of my feet. I also pick scabs and occasionally flakes of skin from my lips when they are chapped. My fingers are always pink, raw, and rough. Sometimes they will bleed which is when I definitely stop and I am often left with sore fingers that I can barely use. I have to use nail clippers to cut off hanging bits of skin that I know will bleed and hurt if I try to pull it off. If I am not at home, I suck it up and pull it off because I HAVE to pull it off or it bothers me greatly.

I often wonder if it is genetic or a result of my past childhood emotional abuse. My sister plucks her eyelashes (and was never abused) which is of course not the same thing, but obviously in the same category.