If you can’t help but pick at pimples, scabs, bumps, or even healthy skin, you have dermatillomania, sometimes called excoriation disorder. Doctors don’t know what causes it, but people who have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are more likely to have it. Wearing bandages on your ...
Discover the symptoms, treatment, & causes of skin picking disorder (excoriation), a condition in which people repeatedly try to pick at scabs, scars, & other areas of the skin.
Also known as excoriation disorder, or skin picking disorder (SPD), dermatillomania is a body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) where someone recurrently and compulsively picks at their skin to the point of injury. Dermatillomania behaviors include repetitive touching, rubbing, scratching, picking...
If you are experiencing any of the above symptoms of Dermatillomania / Skin Picking Disorder, and would like to discuss treatment or a consultation, please call one of our client coordinators at (310) 824-5200 (ext 4), orclick here to email us. ...
And, when it finally pops and scabs, you pick it more, because your makeup isn't falling the right way. Before you know it, you're left with a big, ugly hole in your face that's basically impossible to cover up with makeup. Skin picking is something everyone has likely dabbled in...