I was a senior in college when I was first diagnosed with excoriation disorder, otherwise known as dermatillomania and characterized by chronic, pathological skin-picking. Of course, I’d already known ...
Skin picking disorder can affect your overall health. Here, we spoke to experts about the steps you can take to overcome it. We know we shouldn’t be touching our faces. Aside from transferring ...
When I get super anxious, like right before a date (or…during a date), it’s hard to resist picking at my cuticles or fiddling with bumpy patches of skin on my arms. I have obsessive-compulsive ...
Although the influencer wasn’t speaking directly to me that day—she didn’t know me or my skin concerns or my skincare ... My feverish, dopamine-fueled picking sessions would leave me raw ...