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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For Phaedra Longhurst, 27, the effects of skin-picking disorder dermatillomania, eczema and acne are more than just skin deep. And she's not alone. Each year, about 13 million people in the UK ...