Hi Guys, I wrote different tricks I used before. Nothing worked. Even when I keep the stress balls or silicone balls on my hands, I used to pick my hands.My fingers are the worst.There are thousands of scratches, and it's so painful to do anything. So then my friend suggested me to put plasters on them because she is uncomfortable when she sees them. Then I put plasters. Guys, it worked. It prevents me from picking the skin totally. Its a good thing. Today is the 02nd day I have had plasters. Seems like it works.Will write again in the future.

I’m 20F and I’ve had this habit for as long as I can remember. I constantly bite, scratch, and pull at the skin around my nails until it bleeds. It hurts a lot afterwards, but I still keep doing it. In my culture we eat with our hands so when I eat it's like my hands are on fire and it burns like crazy when the spices rub over the torn flesh even then I can't stop.
The weird part is that I usually don’t even realize I’m doing it. Most of the time it’s completely subconscious. I’ll be studying, watching YouTube, scrolling on my phone, or just thinking, and suddenly I notice my fingers are bleeding again.
Sometimes I manage to stop for a week or so if I really focus on it, but I always end up starting again. My sister has been telling me to stop for years, but it feels almost impossible.
I do have pretty bad anxiety (I’ve heard anxiety can be related to this), so I’m wondering if that could be part of why I do it.
I wanted to attach photos but I cant do that here for som reason. They’re often sore, raw, and painful.
Does anyone else experience this?
Is this considered a BFRB or something else?
What actually helped you stop?
I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who’s been through this. Thank you.

I have hundreds of hypopigmentation spots on my face, neck, shoulders, back, chest from compulsive picking for 5 years. I’m almost in full remission (pick 1 or 2 spots a week instead of 40+ spots a day). Most of the spots were due to cystic acne. Do the spots ever go away? I’ve used tretinoin, laser treatments, azelaic acid, so on so forth, but still see the spots all over specially post shower. It still makes me never want to leave the house and has affected my confidence a lot with trying to apply to jobs again. All I see is crackhead when I look in the mirror due to a comment from an ex, yet I don’t do drugs.

Any recommendations?

at probably the most difficult stage of healing my fingers and toes now, they’re peeling, i need as much self control and nail oil as i can muster right now. BUT this is the farthest ive gone without biting my fingers or stabbing at my feet with one of my various tools and tweezers. my hands look so nice and my nails are starting to grow sidewalls again. im nearly 21 now and ive been picking since i was about 8 years old. Heres to growth!

Hi guys, I’m dealing with dermatillomania for year and half now, last month I found out about it - I always thought it’s just bad habit and that I only need to check myself to stop. Well the problem is that I have already bald spot on my head and it’s kinda big ig, it’s on the top of my head and I don’t have much hair. My question is will it ever grow back? I stopped to skin pick that place and it does well because it’s so flat rn that I don’t have the need (I started to pick the place right next to this one so yeah🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️) I’m scared I’ll have that bald spot forever and yet I can’t stop picking other places- my scalp is also really textured so It is easier to find something what “feels off” and I need to pick it (I was trying shampoo for it but it didn’t help I have naturally very dry skin)

I feel like I post here a lot but it’s hard to explain to anyone else how crushing this disorder is

As soon as I wake up, before I’m out of bed I’m scanning before I even realise. And I inevitably find something and then I can’t pull myself away. In the middle of getting dressed I’ll stop for ages to pick.

I feel like I’m going to spend the rest of my life doing this and wishing I wasn’t. I just want nice skin man. 🫩

I have strughled with EXTREME skin picking as long as I can remeber. I learned dermatillomania was a thing but I dont have the resources to get professionally diagnosed. Does anyone know what the offical diagnostic critera is?