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#1
Dec 02, 2009, 05:41 PM
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I just realized that I struggle with dernatillomania (complusive skin picking)
Basically, I will not allow wounds to heal. I let the scab over, but then I pick the scabs off... often causing the wound to bleed again. Does anyone struggle with this.
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Dec 03, 2009, 12:23 AM
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*waves* I do...
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#3
Dec 03, 2009, 03:21 AM
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Me also. I have so many scars people ask me about them. This the first time I have admitted it to anyone.
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Dec 03, 2009, 05:32 AM
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 Me too!! I don't know if I hate it or I love it. 
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#5
Dec 03, 2009, 05:43 AM
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Stress relever maybe?
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Dec 05, 2009, 04:51 PM
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Yeah I do.. My lips hurt so bad right now lol. I don't pick my face as much as I used to.. thank god.
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#7
Dec 05, 2009, 05:31 PM
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I do. I have really dry lips so there is always dry skin on them that I tear off. Makes them bleed. Hurts like heck.
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#8
Dec 06, 2009, 05:10 AM
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Yup, me too. When I used to cut I would always pick the scabs. Now I pick bits of my fingers all the time, and bite. It always seems to be worse when I'm anxious, worried or stressed. I also bite on my tongue too.
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#9
Dec 06, 2009, 10:39 PM
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actually yeah, I do it. I'm actually doing it as I write this message. But I don't consider it to be a struggle. I consider it to be a bad habit like biting my nails.
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Dec 06, 2009, 11:00 PM
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Dec 07, 2009, 12:29 AM
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I'm wondering whether or not it's classified as an "anxiety" driven disorder or if it really falls under the self-injury spectrum. It may not seem relevant to any of you, but I really hope it's anxiety driven for me and not something else. I pick at my fingers a lot, since I get a lot of hangnails. I also pick at scabs (like right now there's one on my shoulder and it's bugging me a lot) and I also scratch my head a lot sometimes until it bleeds.
  It's not something fun to have to deal with. My poor back probably has scars that I can't even see, because I have bad skin back there (not pimples, but bumps?) and I used to scratch it a lot. Oopsies!
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#12
Dec 07, 2009, 07:46 PM
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use to, now I am tired of the scars
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Dec 07, 2009, 10:09 PM
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#14
Dec 08, 2009, 07:37 PM
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I've got a big time skin-picking problem. My legs are covered in scars and I never show them to the world. I scratch and scratch and scratch them, till they're bloody. When scabs form, I pick those. I also pick at my cuticles, at the skin on my lips, and any acne that forms. Lately I've been breaking out on my back, chest, and face. My leg sores get infected all the time. It's totally disgusting and I hate that I do this to myself.
It's supposed to be either anxiety or pleasure-driven. For me it is anxiety-driven.. I pick and scratch when I am anxious. It calms me down.
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Dec 09, 2009, 01:35 PM
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#16
Dec 10, 2009, 02:54 PM
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I'm a 54 yr old female and I cannot stop biting my nails and the skin around them...they are disgusting. I do it when I'm upset, stressed, anxious, depressed...most of the time.
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Dec 15, 2009, 11:45 PM
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I suffer from it too, I pick scabs, my lips, and my face. I pick my lips the most though, to the point that they are bleeding horribly and im still picking them while I bleed cause i need to get that last peel. I'm trying to stop now and so far its working. I found out for me its related to stress and anxienty since i'm soo impatient.
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#18
Feb 26, 2010, 11:56 AM
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I have a huge problem with this and have never admitted it either. There is never a day goes by where I do not do this. I find it is the worst in the evening and when I am trying to get to sleep. When I am 'ruminating' I do it constantly. This makes a very big difference to what I wear because of scarring. Arms are very bad. It started when I was kid due to the anxiety from my parents bullying, being very controlling and domineering and my father hitting me - a lot. I find my nervous system is in overdrive all the time. I wonder if I was always like this, or whether childhood experiences changed my wiring somehow.
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Mar 01, 2010, 08:48 AM
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I would agree that it is from anxiety, so working on the anxiety would be where to start.........
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#20
Mar 01, 2010, 10:32 AM
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I actually do but I wont do it on my body. For some reason I only do it on my head. I don't even know I am doing it hald the time.
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Mar 01, 2010, 01:30 PM
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Does popping pimples and acne count? If you do it over and over again. Sometimes the acne hurts and it doesn't seem like it will heal on it's own unless I get the pus out. But other times I'm trying to get the black heads out, and I think it makes me calmer. Is this the same thing? I also pick at my dry excema.
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Mar 01, 2010, 02:53 PM
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I think that there can be a fine line there. If you are doing it so that it can heal this is good. If you go beyond the doing good part I think that you have crossed over into the anxiety part.
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Mar 01, 2010, 03:10 PM
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i sometimes just like the way it feeeeels
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