Skin picking disorder can affect your overall health. Here, we spoke to experts about the steps you can take to overcome it. We know we shouldn’t be touching our faces. Aside from transferring ...

But sometimes, the nervous ritual can belie a condition called dermatillomania, which is an unhealthy obsession with picking your skin. Sometimes, dermatillomania (also known as skin-picking ...

But sometimes, the nervous ritual can belie a condition called dermatillomania, which is an unhealthy obsession with picking your skin. Sometimes, dermatillomania (also known as skin-picking disorder) ...

“I’ve struggled with dermatillomania, also known as skin picking, for over a decade. Here’s how it has affected me” While some people will pick at areas all over their body, I limit ...

BFRBs, when severe, can impair someone's ability to ... or go to great lengths to hide the evidence of their hair pulling or skin picking—often using wigs or makeup, or refusing to let people ...

BFRBs, when severe, can impair someone's ability to ... or go to great lengths to hide the evidence of their hair pulling or skin picking—often using wigs or makeup, or refusing to let people ...

For the person with BDD, the flaw is significant and projecting, often causing severe emotional distress and difficulties in daily functioning. For more information see Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Not only can stress exacerbate skin conditions, but emotional distress can also lower the threshold for itchiness. Severe stress can make you feel itchiness more intensely. Stress can induce ...

It’s a seemingly harmless act, something many of us do without a second thought while deep in concentration or perhaps when ...