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Dermatillomania (skin picking disorder)
Does any know what I'm talking about?! b/c I have no clue..
i have a question regarding white pin-head dots that I am pulling out of my skin, and what the long term consequences for such actions will be.
Ok so I've been picking since I was 19. Now four years later my arms above the elbow and my shoulders are dotted with dozens and dozens of dime to quarter sized pink scars, mixed in with 5 or 6 "active volcanoes." Typically the raging volcanoes start out as a tiny blemish of some sort; Ingrown hair, small nick of skin, even a pimple. After continual picking, they quickly expand and often become infected. when the wounds that are infected become scabs they are literally craters in my skin. if left alone for enough time the crater will forum a scab filled with a gooey yellowish substance. However they don't make it past
that stage without being picked at continually. My obsession is not with the removal of the scab, but with removing tiny white pin head sized spots poking out of the area under the scab. Once I remove the scab the area underneath is more puss then blood, so I am able to see the details of the infected crater. I think the white things I am pulling out are hair follicules. IDK, like I said the wound is infected and has cratered into my skin so I am assuming due to the cratered area there is no upper level skin to hide the hair folicules.
I will use tweezers to pull these tiny buldges out of my skin. When I remove one it pulls out like a weed being pulled from dirt, the section I see is only a portion of the entire thing.
So if u made it thru this post and understand what I'm talking about, are they hair folicules?
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SPLINTERS!! YES, mace760!!! That's the analogy I use!!! Splinters are not supposed to be there; they itch and they hurt; and they HAVE TO COME OUT!!!
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