I always use lip balm. I put it on obsessively because I hate peeling chapped lips. They drive me crazy, but I've been having a runny nose and was a little negligent so now I have peeling lips. I really do think its a soothing habit. Sometimes I dig my skin too, but I catch myself before actually breaking the skin, then make myself stop. But attmittedly there's a spot on the back of my head I itch compulsively, and I broke the skin. I'm making the best effort I can to not itch or pick at it to make it worse. I use to dig my scalp until I had...damaged the skin in various places to the point of bleeding. It was so embarrassing to get my hair cut that I stopped myself from engaging in that behavior.