I'm in a peak obsessive period of skin picking right now. I'm fighting it and trying to get it under control but I'm having a hard time stopping it. My picking comes and goes in a cycle of varying intensity. I've been hospitalized because of infection from it. Even though I'm having problems with it now, generally I do much better with the help of meds, therapy, writing, meditation...etc. This is a set back but I'll recover--I always get better...eventually.