Skin picking is often brushed off as a bad habit or a lack of willpower, but for many people it is neither simple nor voluntary. Dermatillomania, also known as excoriation disorder, is a clinically ...

Millions of people compulsively pick their skin or pull their hair. Social media is helping some of them to recover. By Chloe W. Shakin Chloe Shakin interviewed nearly a dozen individuals with BFRBs, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

When we stop framing these behaviors as failures and start seeing them as signals, the conversation changes. Compassion ...