Many people unconsciously engage in repetitive body behaviors like nail-biting or skin-picking, often triggered by stress or boredom. These actions provide temporary relief by offering sensory ...

Against the advice of dermatologists (and skincare articles) everywhere, pimple popping is practically a national pastime. Who hasn’t awoken to a pesky, juicy whitehead just begging to be squeezed?

Why do you pick your face, poke your skin, and prod yourself? It’s complicated. How do you stop? Ditto. “People who excessively pull their hair or pick at their skin often do it to relieve tension and ...

“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 ...

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 ...

BUT THERE ARE STRATEGIES TO HELP YOU STOP. IT HAS THIS SORT OF SOOTHING SENSATION IN DR. MICHELLE DE BLASI UNDERSTANDS THAT MAY SOUND ODD TO ANYONE WHO DOESN’T DO THIS OR THIS OR THIS. IT’S A WAY THAT ...

It’s gross, but I’ll admit that I regularly pick at hangnails and overgrown cuticles when I’m feeling stressed or anxious. Reassuringly, the NHS says I’m not alone ― their site says that lots of us ...

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 ...