[stevenn]

--Warning Self Harm and general gross stuff--
I've had a huge issue with skin picking for the past few years. It has become really bad, and leaves me picking on old cuts for weeks and weeks. I chew and pick on my nails and fingers and am kind of obsessed with making sure there weren't any weird textures or scabs anywhere on my body.
If I don't have anything to pick on, I get really irritable and bad, and this leads to me even cutting myself just so I have something pick on for a while. The self harm doesn't come from a place of self-hatred or anything, really, as people always seem to think. But it's still a horrible habit.
Anyway, I was wondering if other people experienced anything like this, and how you can shake this habit. I've tried before, but it's extremely difficult, and I don't know what to do.

[healingme4me]

I remember when my stepdads mom began picking at scabs from a winter itch, her doctor was able to prescribe something. Was too long ago, and I was too young to have paid attention to the name of the medication. I do recall my mom whipped out her medicine book, and she'd mentioned that it was a psych med. There's medication that can treat this.