Skin picking disorder, also called dermatillosia or excoriation disorder, is when you repeatedly pick at your skin to the point where it causes damage, scarring, or distress. It’s not just ...

I sat nervously in the exam room, staring at the floor as my mom sat nearby. At age ten, I’d never been to a dermatologist before, and I didn’t know what to expect. My pessimistic mind pictured a ...

“If you have this gross gunk in your face, you need to be double-cleansing,” a TikTok skinfluencer told me a few days ago. As she described the product she was about to slather over her face, she ...

Our skin is often covered with tiny imperfections—blemishes, moles, cuts and spots that we're all guilty of picking at from time to time. Consider the temptation of that bulbous yellow head of a spot ...

It falls under the category of obsessive-compulsive disorders and is also known as skin picking disorder or excoriation disorder. “For many, skin picking can be a response to feelings such as anxiety, ...

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 ...

Over the course of their lives, up to 220,000 Norwegians will pick at their skin or pull out their hair to an extent that can ...

A woman living with dermatillomania has revealed how the compulsive disorder causes her to pick at her skin for hours on end, until her face is bleeding and hurts to touch. Many people might find ...

A fear of being alone triggered my new habit. It was almost the holidays, and another good friend — one of the few left unmarried — became engaged. Immediately, the fear I'd had since childhood of ...

The other night, I sat down to watch a movie with my 11-year-old daughter. The movie—Titanic, if you’d like to know—was absorbing enough, so it took a while for me to notice a tiny, clicking, nibbling ...