I'm a woman and I pick my breasts! Does anyone else?

I do too. I pick and pop little pimples I find on my boobs :(

Tomato's! Honestly rub a tomato all over yourself and leave on for 15 minutes. Wash with warm water. This has helped me a ton when I pick. I have been an obsessive picker for over 10 years now. This is what really helps me. Also when you wash your body, wash it with cold water or with a cold cloth (sponge dont wipe) to close your pores. This will help lessen the amount to pick at. Hope this helps!

YES. Me too. My most picked places over my lifespan has been my shoulders and my boobs. I always try my best to stay away from anything that a v-neck shirt might see, but I have some scars. It's just that they're right THERE. And I can't NOT see them. And it's just really easy to pick at. I had an ex who was very understanding and told me he didn't want to see me hurting myself, and if I took too long in the bathroom he'd come looking for me, or get me out. But I'm single now, and it's always a place I go back to. I worry I'll ruin one of my best assets! LOL, but I can't help it!

Hi, I was so glad to see your blog. I just started on this site and I have been picking my breasts also. I pick at my arms and legs for the past 10 years. I just started picking my breasts a couple of months ago. These tiny red spots starting appearing. I only get itchy at night. I take atarax for itching but it has never helped. Does your boobs get itchy? I take valium for chronic anxiety but I still pick. I guess I'm not much help but knowing I'm not alone makes me feel better. Skin doctors haven't helped they just say in disgust to go to my Psychiatrist! Oh well, I'm going to pray for an answer for both of us. Take care!

I have the exact same problem. :( I can't stop picking! My breasts are covered in scabs, which often get infected and sore. I always try to have sex with a shirt on so my husband won't see when I've gone on a picking spree. I don't have any ideas on how to stop. I pick at my neck during class, because my hair will cover the marks. I even unbutton my shirt at work and pick at my breasts in my office. I pick while I watch tv, when I'm in the shower, on the toilet, and when I'm trying to fall asleep. I pick at my scalp, shoulders, breasts, back, neck and arms really badly. I've been picking since I was 12, but it got substantially worse when I was 18 (I'm 23 now) I don't know how to stop. Especially since I buy expensive makeup to help cover it up. My husband is disappointed that I can't stop. I want to stop, but it is sooooo satisfying to pick. When I'm in a situation where I can't pick I get really agitated. Oh well. I've seen psychologists about it, but they can't do anything for me. I'm even on citalopram which is supposed to help with OCD problems, but it hasn't helped me at all. Best of luck to everyone.

its crazy so many have this problem!i thought i was alone.by boobs are nasty and i cant even let anyone see them.i am 19,i am incredibly hot too!!, and practicly dont have sex with my boyfriends anymore.i am too embarrassed to show them.since i dont have sex anymore, i am losing my friends and i am not socialy accepted as much. i cant stop this habbit for nothing!!! i need help!!! i need boyfriends!!!! why must boys need to have sex to be friends with me.does anyone else have this problem????

i can't believe it has taken me 5 years to even realize that what i have is an actual disorder and not just acne. i started picking my face and then moved on to the shoulders, back, breasts, legs and bum. i'm 19 now and it's not as bad as it used to be, i've pretty much got my shoulders, back and legs back to normal and my bum's getting there but my breasts still bug me. i find that the worst time is in the shower when the skin is soft and i can see them. i get pretty down about it but it's so difficult to stop, whenever i stop for a substantial amount of time and see improvement i always end up going back. its just annoying cause i would love to get more intimate with guys but i'm so paranoid that the only time this seems to happen is when i'm drunk and it's dark. hearing all of your stories has inspired me to try and stop as i don't want to be doing all of this in 10 years time (no offence to any of you long time sufferers)

Ok, well my first day wasn't too successful. Twice I picked today... So tomorrow I'm going to be pick free, even if it kills me, dammit!

I have this problem....I just started a few months ago. I do it to my chest. I get close to a lamp or light, take a pair of tweezers and just go over each breast looking for hair folicles. Not even hair folicles, the white stuff inside each one where a hair would be. The stuff that protects your body from infections. I have little scabs here and there on each breast, I am trying so hard not to do it though anymore. I think its a control issue. I am a recovering addict, couples years now and I have a little girl now. So I know deep down I CAN'T go back to that lifestyle ever again and thats okay with me. However, I am learning, even after years, to cope with things that I normally would have done drugs with or called a man for company..yadda yadda. Its comforting...but the end result isn't. So, I think with intense one-on-one chatting with a professional and digging deep (no pun intended) to get at the core of all my issues, this will fade away on its own. What do you all think?

Hiya, only this morning i've come across this site after Googling, In all honesty I am so relieved that I am not alone at picking. Its been over a year now since I started picking at my breasts, it mostly started a month or befor having my daughter, and I keep thinking that maybe by me picking my breasts i wasn't able to breast feed my baby. I know i should go and see my doctor about this but i'm too ashamed and embarrased. My partner knows that I do this and he tries to help me fight the urge to pick, but like some of you I always pick with out fail before I have a bath. In truth it is starting to take over my life. I'm a big women and my self-esteem is touching the floor as it is and i know by doing this i'm ruining the one part of my body I was proud of. I thought that when my partner found out that I was picking that he would leave as once I finished i would get upset by what i done but he says he loves me no matter what. I just need help to fight the urge before i ruin my body completly.

Hi, my name is Katlyn and I am 18 years old and I pick my boobs. I just have to say that I read everyone's stories and they truly had an impact on me. This only started happening this year, and I have to at least pick my boobs twice a day. I can't stop it. I am not as sever as some of you, and I don't pick my face or other places, and I just told my mom about it and she is going to help me stop before I ruin my body. I pick pimples, and I pick little bumps around my nipple, and I can tell it's hurting my body from the way it stings afterwards. I have big boobs, and unfortunately they hang so it gets sweaty under them and sweat forms pimples. It is an addiction, i have gone a few or so days without picking, i know i am lucky at catching this early, and i just want to wish you all luck!

Wow I'm like the other women here- completely in shock that it's not just me. My mother picked at my face for years and still spends hours picking her face. I wore makeup to school in 4th grade and constantly got in trouble for it. I grew up pulling my hair out and it eventually stopped and switched to me picking my own face. About the time I got to college (and started birth control) I ended up being able to leave my face alone. I had begun picking a few spots on my breasts, but not that much. About last year, it really took off. I use tweezers to squeeze out whatever is in the pockets on my breasts. Unfortunately, I've begun to really worry this summer because the spots have started to become infected. I've tried wearing bandages over my breasts, but I eventually end up tearing them off and picking. However, I have great support. I have been sexually active for a while with multiple partners, but only my first had ever seen my breasts. It wasn't until my current boyfriend that I had the courage to show them again. Now we're not a cheesy couple (dating a year and a half and never even told each other flat out that we love each other), but when he saw my breasts for the first time, he told me he loved them because they were mine. You all are incredibly worthy of a partner who is understanding. I wish you all the best on your recoveries!

I pick my breasts too, as well as dry skin and pimples from my face. My breasts tend to slightly lactate every now and then, and I have a bad habit of picking out dried fluid and oil/ dirt or whatever it is that just sits in the opening of the nipple. I also pluck a couple hairs out. I think more women do this than you would think.

I've been picking my face for four years and the last few months i've started to pick at my chest aswell. I just started having counselling and taking fluoxetine to get rid of some of my anxiety and it seems to be better. Exercising seems to help as well. I just started a blog where I hope to post tips about what I find helps me to stop picking. http://ihavedermatillomania.wordpress.com/

hi yes I am in my late 30's and have scars all over my breasts i squeeze anything that can be squeezed which then turns to scabs and then the picking frenzies begin so i know exactly where you're coming from. its so tough and people just dont understand and so even in the summer months i cover myself from head to toe including baseball caps to disguise my forehead. I thank god that for my husband who loves me regardless but he does get worried and upset as he knows how this condition affects my confidence and self asteem. I send you support strength and love and hope this site helps as it is helping me and i've only just found it myself. Its just so good to know we're not alone.:)x

Hi! I have always felt like a freak because I also pick my skin all over my body, including breast. I am 19 years old. I honestly always knew there was something wrong but thought I was the only one with this problem. I also saw the episode of Obsessed on A&E about the woman who was a skin picker, but I felt like I related to the story and not at the same time. There are some guys who say I'm cute or whatever, but I always say I'm not. I totally get what you're talking about. You are so lucky to find someone who is obviously accepting you for who you are, no matter what you think you look like. I just feel like a freak. Does anybody else ever feel like everyone is staring at them when the walk down the street? It's like they're not looking at you but your scars, like your some kind of freak show. I also get depressed sometimes because of it. I get scared this will never end, but I try so hard not to pick and I do. Maybe coming to this will help.

I do to and everywhere. I'm ashamed and embarrassed. I don't see how anyone could love me. I know GOD does and family, but I'm talking about a guy. I'm a freak so....

So nice (not sure that's the right word) so know there are more people like me. I am a 24 year old vet student and I have picked my skin for as long as I can remember. My picking definitely gets worse with anxiety, I was diagnosed with epilepsy at 15 and from then on I have incessantly picked at my face. In the last 4 years or so this picking has spread else where including my shoulders but mainly my boobs, this has worsened especially in the last year since my epilepsy reared its ugly head once more and I was diagnosed with a benign pituitary adenoma (all this as long as studying at vet school as made for a very stressful year!). My breasts are so scarred, to the extent that I dont want to wear a bikini anymore, they are covered in red marks, I often have scabs on them from picking (if anyone spots them I often blame them on my rabbits claws scratching me!). So I have decided that I am not going to do this to myself anymore!! I have had enough and need to take control of it! I have bought myself some well rated scar reducing gel and am going to write a diary every night (i usually pick when I get into bed, so if I can focus on something else I am hoping this will help). Everywhere I read they say that dermatillomania is not easily cured, but as frustrating as it is i KNOW it is a habit, and it is so self destructive, not only physically but mentally as well. I am determined to turn this around for myself, I have become so quiet and lost a lot of confidence. I feel like I am behaving the opposite to how a normal 24 year old should! Has anyone on here manage to control their picking? I want to stop and feel like a woman again! Hope that people on here can inspire each other to try and break the habit as hard as it may be!

I'm almost 15, I started picking half way through last year when I was really stressed and things weren't going very well at home. I started picking at my face and arms at the bend in the elbow. It has now spread and I am picking my arms, legs, face, back, shoulders, and breasts. Most of the time they start as pimples and I have the impulse to pop them, I then pick them. A few of my friends are aware of the problem and the only thing they can do to get me to stop is hit me and tell me to stop but I almost immediately start again when their not looking, my teachers are starting to notice and help as well but no matter what anyone does I do it still. It normally happens when I'm stressed, upset or angry. It's good to know I'm not alone

I cant believe that there are actually other people that do the same thing! I seriously thought that i was a psycho. I think that mine started when i was 15 or so and this idiot i was "dating" saw my boobs and i had some black hair growing around my areola. When we broke up he told everyone that i was hairy and started calling me "sasquatch" . I think thats when it started but has only in the last 5 years or so (im 28) it has gotten really bad. Every time i get a chance (on the toilet, in the shower, when im home alone) the first thing i do is pull my shirt and bra up and start in . I search for little black hairs to dig out. Doesnt matter how deep its gotta come out. I have dug craters in myself but feel no pain. I have a panic attack if i cant find the tweezers. I bleed and have to wear bandages. I also squeeze the white bumps on my areolas and get excited (not sexually) when "a good one" comes out. I used to have my nipples pierced and i still have holes on either side of my nipple. If i squeeze really hard white puss stuff will come out . I have no feeling in my nipples anymore. Wow i have never told anyone that before. I am happily married and my husband knows that i pick and is very understanding. I am going to call tomorrow and find a therapist who deals in OCD. I want it to stop!

I've only figured out there was a name for what I do. When I'm stressed, I pick my face and between my boobs. It has progressed to legs, arms and stomache. I try to keep my hands busy now. For some reason, denim material helps me. When I was a kid, my blanket felt like denim material and when I rub it now, I'm soothed. My sister makes fun of me because I keep a piece of a jean in the car to rub as I drive. If I don't, I pick my face. I've also figured out that if I wear acrylic nails, I don't pick as much. I can't get a hold of the scabs well enough to peel them off or to squeeze the bumps. It's just so expensive to keep up, especially for an unemployed woman. I am glad to see that I am not alone now.

hey girls, whoa - good to learn you all are out there! I'm 26 year old picker from switzerland, in the "business" like so many of you since my early teens. I know pretty much what everyone's talking about, and I'm coming to the conclusion that it's way more then just a bad habit. it's in fact a sickness and it has a name: Dermatillomania. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatillomania) of course, like in all addictional/ compulsive behavios, causes might differ: traumatisms, not coping well with stress or your own body... psychological or neurological (like a lack of dopamine in your brain)... but the main thing in my opinion is you recognize there's something there, and it's nothing to be more ashamed of then any other medical condition. knowing that I have a very low discipline level and I like to give advice I don't follow (no, I'm not over it and still struggling, not ever making it more than 3 days without picking)... I still think we need to stop feeling sorry for ourselves. like what I just said about discipline: that's feeling sorry for myself because I still think it's a discipline issue and that I'm just too weak to get off it. it's not, and we're not going to help it by changing outside circumstances and making stupid contracts with- and promises to ourselves, to "be strong - stop picking - from now on". that's bullshit because you don't get rid of a condition like that, the only thing it will do is to make you feel worse when you (obvisouly) start picking again - because the underlying causes don't dissapear with a promise. it'll make you feel worse each time you break a contract, worse about yourself, and that'll make you want to pick more... it's an evil circle. so I say: heads up, gals, let's all come out of the closet and talk to a freakin' professional! good luck and success to all of you ;)

I'm 19 and have been picking since I was a little kid. when I hit puberty I got acne on my chest. But a lot of it was all in my head unfortunately. So I would pick at little specs that i thought were a growing pimple or a blackhead or something. My chest is now completely scarred with white scars because I guess after repeated picking it took out the pigment. My dermatologist says they are little cysts. Thanks to birth control and some hormone medication all my acne has gone away. Which did wonders for my chest. But about a year ago I started picking around the nipple, I feel like it's such a disgusting habit. My mother used to constantly check my body, mainly to see for infections and saw that I had started to pick around the nipple. I told her that something does come out. Like a pimple. But she told me that it's nothing like a pimple and that I could get a serious infection and that I'm damaging my breasts. I've tried to stop. But the thought of knowing that if something is under the skin and I can pop it out, it must be done. I'm extremely self conscious. I won't wear bathing suits just because I have all these white scars on my chest and I'm both embarrassed and disgusted by myself.