Jennifer Barton is sharing her 20-year struggle with the mental health disorder dermatillomania, which has left her "swollen" ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For patients with chronic skin picking, a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder, that is severe enough to cause physical damage, results of a small study suggest that the ...

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 ...

While typing away on your desktop or making a hole in the floor while walking during stressful situations, one quirk is common in a whole lot of people. No, it's not the thought of quitting and ...

Acne excoriée is an excoriation disorder defined by the uncontrollable desire to pick, scratch, or rub acne lesions. It's a mental health condition that falls into the group of obsessive-compulsive ...

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 ...

I have always been a picker. I remember it from my earliest playground knee grazes—the irresistible urge to peel off the scab as soon as it formed; to see the bright white flesh beneath. I knew I wasn ...

Although my skin-picking past is written all over my face, it doesn't make me any less beautiful. If you saw my face in person, you would notice that it is covered from chin to forehead in pockmarks.

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 ...

Tallulah Willis, the daughter of Hollywood icons Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, courageously opened up about her struggles with a skin-picking disorder known medically as dermatillomania. In a heartfelt ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have had an unsightly rash on my legs for many years. I finally went to the dermatologist today, and he said I have skin-picking syndrome and that all of the findings on my leg are ...