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I always seem to be picking at something on me. Such as when my lips are chapped and a peice of skin will stick out and I rip it off to the point where you can't any more and it's bleeding and hurts. Or like scabs. My scabs never heal cause I pick them so much that they don't bleed any more. Am I nuts?
I do the same. I have eczema on my hands... it's awful. I wear cotton gloves at night and sometimes during the day if I'm picking. The gloves may help you a little bit but with lip I end up biting too!
Find something else to do like a game, read, stress ball, get your mind off of it. Think about how if you bite it, it'll be so gross no one will kiss you! lol. Also, I like eating pommelos (like a grapefruit but not so sour) and you have to pick at those to get to the flesh. Maybe start sewing something, like a tapestry? You can find easy patterns, it's similar to picking at something and something positive comes from it :D
I do exactly the same thing, with bits of skin on my lips and any scab that has hardness to it at all. It's a common form of OCD but some people do it really really bad %%u2013 they just pick at their skin all over the place until it bleeds, as a nervous habit or a method of dealing with stress. So I'm not sure how severe you have to be at it for it to be OCD.
try putting school glue on your hands and letting it dry. IT IS AWESOME!!!
You have what is called dermatillomania. It is normal. My sister my brother and I all have it. It is linked to ocd. I pick at my scabs pimples (I have cystic acne) and especially my lips and cuticles...anything that I see as being imperfect. I also believe it is addicting because when you pull that one piece and it gurts just a little maybe starts to bleed ..it releases endorphins. (Just my opinion)
when I was little I used to bite and pic at my lip allways in the exact same spot, now i got a little scar on the side of my lower lip, like I sliced it bad.
don't do it.
I have the same problem to some degree, it's not life interfering or anything, but its there. I bite my nails quite often, and also pick my chapped lips as mentioned. Did you use to smoke? I think it has something to do with not being stimulated enough as a developing child or something of the sort.. that's just what I read.
I have the same exact problem and I hate it. I am constantly picking at something, my scalp, the hair on my arms, my eczema, its sickening to me. I just can't help it though.
I have the same problem... though mine is from OCD. Maybe you have OCD too?