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icantstop , 03 Jul 2008

I pick everything

ever since i can rember i have alway's picked im now 15 and pick my cuticles more than ever! i pick everything from Scabs Cuticles Bottom of my feet Noes Scalp (but no bald spots) Toes Lip Face and every other part of my body really idk what that would be classified as considering they all are different problems?
11 Answers
Kris13tina
December 13, 2008
hi there, im a 5 year veteran of this disorder, and i remember when i was 16, my mom wouldnt really take me seriously, but i think she just thought it was a bad habit, so i dont blame her, but anyways i am now 21 and my entire body, and husbands body too is scarred up bad. if ur parents dont take you seriously, tell them do the research, but its a fairly new disorder. (Dermatillomania) i hope you can seek treatment, and again, keep pushing the situation. thnx
someone
December 23, 2008

In reply to by Kris13tina

Man i understand, more than 1million people in America go thorugh this problem, your not alone. I am in Canada, people would freakout if they figure what fases are going through my body. Pikcing skin, it feels not good but like I have to do it, I don't understand why i do it, until my doctor told me i have a disorder called ocd. Dude you definately have it to. Don't hide it, tell your skin doctor before it gets worse and get sychiatrist. I'm only thirteen. You have to help yourself. bye.
Kris13tina
December 16, 2008
ICANTSTOP, i must say, you are in the same boat as ii am, if not worse. you NEED to bring this toy your parents attention for help. theres other disorders that branch off of O.C.D., but regardless of the name, it's a problem. I develope some depression due to it, and lost my dream of being a model due to this. I don't do my feet, but the rest I ddo. I don't do my scalp too much anymore luckily. But anyways, I understand since this is a relatively new term (dermatillomania), alot of older people (i.e. parents lol) dont quite think its an issue. please encourage your parents to take you to your physician, tell him/her youdo these things, then they will taake it from there. it is very real, please seek help! myspace.com/kris13tina
Kris13tina
December 16, 2008
ICANTSTOP, i must say, you are in the same boat as ii am, if not worse. you NEED to bring this toy your parents attention for help. theres other disorders that branch off of O.C.D., but regardless of the name, it's a problem. I develope some depression due to it, and lost my dream of being a model due to this. I don't do my feet, but the rest I ddo. I don't do my scalp too much anymore luckily. But anyways, I understand since this is a relatively new term (dermatillomania), alot of older people (i.e. parents lol) dont quite think its an issue. please encourage your parents to take you to your physician, tell him/her youdo these things, then they will taake it from there. it is very real, please seek help! myspace.com/kris13tina
r0krchic15
December 17, 2008
i can feel your pain i'm 16 goin be 17 real soon and i can't stop picking it started when i was like 6 or so first it started as picking scabs and having no intrest in the pus then when i was about 9 i finally stopped picking my scabs but then when i was 11 i found my first bump and i couldn't help but to pop it ,it gave a rush i'm better than what i used to be i used "harvest" pimples and zits by poping one and putting the puss on my skin and mesing with it untill it swelled up or squeezing my pores on my inner thighs till cores came up i used to be only able to goto sleep picking my bumps squeezing my skin just for anytihng to come out my turnin point was earlyier this year i've had this lump under my breast for atleast 3 or 4 yrs and it always supplied puss and cores and these hard greyish things i later found out to be hardend keration it was great but then i was really painfull so i went to the doctoers and i had to get it surgically removed i was in so much pain for that for years and i never told my mom cuz i loved it for what it gave me i used stab it with thumb ttacks and sqeeze it untill i lirterally shook from the pain but when i got it removed i realized that it could of been a life thearthing situation but it turned to be beign but my habit is still bad i get these bumps on the back off my thighs and my inner thighs and i just can't stop picking them no matter how much they hurt i'm in a trace and it doesn't stop untill i get some kind of pus or exratcion i've even enlisted my mom into picking my bumbs by lieng an saying they hurt when i walked anything so she'd squeeze them my brother is my primary target his body is perfect for bumps and i can't control myself i can and have stayed up all night watching zit vidieos from youtube or anyother zit site just sitting at my computer with my mouth open drooling in a trace i need help badly i hate messing up my face and legs i hate going to school beausce i always have skin messing or a big bump eight times it size cuz i was up at night pircking it with tweezers or the zit pusher and all you can see it the holes ive mad i'm sick of feeling this way i have depression and angzity and ocd when i have an attack I REALLY NEED HELP PLEASE IF ANYONE CAN BE MY BUDDIE I'D BE SO GRATFUL. i just hope noone else has to feel the way many of us feel i have myspace and my email is r0krchic15@gmail.com plz email me i need someone sorry this is so long i just want to clear the air and let it off my chest ti'm sorry that my spelling sux i type fast and an i make alot of mistakes .
purplegirl
June 08, 2009

In reply to by r0krchic15

i am literally cying rite now that i found this site i am a 15 year old girl with a seeming ly great life. i have play field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse, play guitar and am a martial artist, i eat very healthily, i have a strong and independent personality, great friends, im pretty, my parents are married and we all live in a nice home together with my younger brother and my life is miserable. i have been a picker all my life and just like you i pick evrything and i cant figure out why. it used to be not so bad buut then i startd to pick my scalp, and face more and more anfd i have these sores on my head that i pick every single day and my face is pretty clear but if i do get a flare up i pick it then use cover up to hide the redness just lke you i have these things that i pick on my breast that i pick and grey stuff comes out and it never heals, and if i get a scab i pick it and my nails are terrible, and i have ingrown toe nails which hurt so bad so i have to pick them out but that is really only helping them but my life is falling apart and i am channeling my stress and anger and helplessness through my body my parents are about to split up monney is getting tighter and my brother is completely failing all of his classes which is a recent development i think he has sight aspergers syndrome but is not diagnosed i belive that i have some form of OCD and i have bouts of depression where i cant even get out of bed and i spendall night long picking and i probably have some sort of anxiety diorder and the worst part is my parents wont take me to a therapist or phsycologist or get me or my brother any help because they refuse to talk about it and i feel so helpless because my body is the only thing that i can comntrol right now because i cant even controol my emotions but im just so glad that i found this sight and everyone in it because i cant devout my self to all of my loves because im to obsessed with picking! i never even get to ell my friends because they all have "real" problems like theyr parents are divorced or they have actual diagnosed disorders an i jsut sit there and listen to them list thir problems and i never tell them that my life is spiraling ut of control u probabluy all think that i am so disgusting but thatnk you fofr letting me type what i have been keeping inmside me for so long and i9 am also typing so fast that i am making like so many mistakes but thatnk you!
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hottsoup123
June 11, 2009
i know exactly what you mean. before i saw this site, i like, didnt even realize that anyone else did this. i mean, i just didnt know. ive been picking since i was about 3. first i picked my nose, then scabs, then ears, then scalp, then arms, now wrist. part of under my ear is different than the other (now that its healed) my arms are all bumpy, and i feel so ugly next to all my friends' amazing skin. my skin used to be smooth, but now its all bumpy. i literally CANT sleep at night unless i pick.. and once i start, its like i cant stop and im in a trance. its progressing for me, and i can tell.. yesterday i was really stressed out and my teacher was talking and i felt really tired, and i just started picking my wrist...and i didnt feel anything except that relieved, collective feeling i cant even describe...and it went on for a while...i looked down at my wrist and it looked bloody but not extremely, it was like a burn. so i hid it...and then later, i had an urge to pick and i did it again, and now theres this big, swollen, gross sore on the side of my wrist covered in two band aids.. i need help..sometimes, when i pick my scalp lately, ive been feeling light-headed. my mom knows i pick, but she doesnt know about my wrist...she thinks i burned my self with a curling iron and the skin fell off... i really cant stop. and i feel so crazy and weird and gross and etc etc. and i want to stop. but i need it to function it feels like... im so confused.
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August 24, 2009
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jamesamber
August 25, 2010
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i_pick_everything
August 28, 2013
Ever since about i was 4ish, i have picked my scalp, even till i start to have bald spots! Its super embarrassing because i have baby hair that always sticks up from old bald spots, and i sometimes have scabs in my hair :(. Im 15 now, and lately ive started to pick at my face too and my lips, cuticles, bites, pimples, basically anything!! And its starting to make my face horrible and embarrasing to go out :( i dont know how to stop because it relaxes me when im stressed and i even do it sometimes without even knowing! Its like im in a picking zone or something.. but then later i just feel ashamed because i know people notice it.

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