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I pick my scalp until it hurts. I will get wounds, and I will say “I’m not doing this anymore!” But, I always start doing it again. 😢 I’m almost 60 and have been doing this since I was a teenager. Thank you for helping me.

That is exactly what happened to me,but my doctor ignored me,and said it has nothing to do with your med,

I hate picking my lips but i do gymnastics and sometimes i have anxiety while doing gymnastics and picking my lips somehow helps?

I do.

Hello Annette! I'm picking fingers for 27 years now. at this point: I can't fold my laundry without getting blood on them, I hide my fingers in a fist so most people ask why I'm angry, my books got oily so I don't use hand creams while working hence I pick even more. A woman at work asked me: you are such a well-kept young lady, why do you demolish you're fingers? I got so mad at her but somehow agreed... I need to stop because I know I'm harming myself. Your video motivated me and I'm gonna start using your advices. I'm not sure if I can endure the healing process but thanks for sharing your experience it gave me hope for a more peaceful daily life. Love from Germany.❤

As a person who has picked there head for two years a scalp massager hurts soooo. Bad

I lip pick when I'm stressed, when I'm doing nothing and also when I'm sad I try to stop but I can't my parents want me to stop but I can't I stopped a little bit I didn't do it often anymore but now I'm starting to do it again 😣

Does the fingertips skin recover by itself if i didn't bite it? Cause mine is so bad, and im scared that even if i stopped, it will stay like this 😢 Please tell me it can recover by itself

i been picking on my lips for 5 years! i needed to have a lip balm near me when i had school, i kept doing it till they bleeded. But this video helped me! Thank you so much for the advice.

Once i start picking my lips i can't stop ... someone help me!!! .. i'm 35 and i am picking my lips sence 10 years old !

Oh snap, sounds like I have it. Should I ask my psychiatrist about it? I don't have psychotherapy, just go to a psychiatrist bcs of my ADHD and things related to my ADHD really. I find the thought of psychotherapy, at least right now, exhausting and dreadful and overwhelming. But I feel like my conversations with my psychiatrist, even though it's just once every one to two months, is like a mini psychotherapy session, though I've never had one but I imagine it similar. I've been picking at my acne ever since I have acne, I've got scars and all, I hate it, I hate how my skin looks and feels, I've had so much negative emotions because of it and it feels a lot like an addiction. Infact, when I first started my ADHD meds (methylphenidate) I was very strict with how I went about it and observed things a lot. Two things broke the flow that the meds gave me - doomscrolling and skin picking. Skin picking seemed to suck out the dopamine in the same way - it felt the same way, like the sensation if I can put it that way of what my mental state was like was the same - and the disrupted and now hard to get back to flow of productivity was disrupted just the same.

hey! Im 12-14 and i bite the skin all around my nails, and like you said, its and issue because im trying to flatten the area but i end up tearing off bits of skin. Whenever i come out of the shower too i just keep biting, i put bandaids on to try and stop myself, any feedback?

Doing this for as long as I can think. My mom did it too, so I thought I got it from her. Didn't think it's a kind of ocd. Trying to use a stress ball. Moisturing doesn't work for me.

I don't really have a problem stopping, it's that my lips never stop flaking afterwards.

Thank you I nearly died so thx

I have the habit of peeling the lip skin when i am thinking too much, i am aware that i am peeling it but still can't help to stop it. I have been doing this since i am 10 and now I am 21. I do it while studying or reading books

I always chewed my nails, I got the habit from my mother. At the age of 9 she told me I wouldn't be able to become a hairdresser (my then dream vocation) with nails like mine. I stopped, just like that - one day a nail biter, the next day not. Some years later, and I can't even pin point exactly when, I'm approaching 40 now and it could be a decade or more I've been at it, I've become a skin puller. I hate it, it hurts, looks gross, is a gross habit. I'm a pretty handsy person, so my hands can get pretty dry. But even when they're not, I'm looking for a rough patch to work on. Snipping these off to create a straight edge does help, when I'm not too anxious, but if I'm having a rough time I can't stop myself. It feels like an addiction. I can go weeks and be almost healed and really pleased with the result, only to start looking for a rough patch again. Some of my fingers now have these weird bumps around the nail bed, where the skin isn't growing back smooth anymore. I can't stand wearing the gloves to bed, but I do keep hand creams everywhere around my house so that if I'm tempted when I'm not busy around the house, I can massage creams into my finger tips instead to try and keep my hands busy. I keep pebbles around too, something small, flat and smooth, from the beach, to use as a kind of fidget toy when I'm out and about. Keep my hands busy. I've only just realised that what I'm doing can be considered a form of self harm, I'm genuinely shocked to know this. I remember some scenes from the Black Swan movie, thinking goodness that's awful, only to be doing it myself (though obviously not quite as graphic as the movie!)

Studying or thinking, but Im a student so I do that all the time!

Hi. Thanks for the video! My thought when I see a clogged pore or a bump is usually that if I don't do something about it (pick it or scratch it), it won't go away on its own or it will grow bigger.

Thanks for all the tips. I have been picking skin around my cuticle area and top of the fingers for decades. I have also watched other videos that say this picking has the same effect as people who cut themselves as it is a compulsive thing and relieves pent up anxiety and stress. I wish there was an easy way to deal with OCD behaviors, but I keep trying. lol I will try the gamer fingertip gloves as they sound breathable. I had previously tried latex version, but they made my skin sweat and wrinkle making it more tempting to pick later. Thanks again. ✨

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Really helpful thank You as was your book - life changing. Having slip ups now with a second daughter coming along , very little sleep, over stimulation, picking face and scratching back back in full swing. Back to your videos is a breath of fresh air & going to re-read your book x x

Hi Annette! I want you to share my story,I bought your book several years ago about skin picking, probabily after this video I will read it again. Nowadays I do cognitive-behavioural therapy and I'm diagnosed with a CPTSD... I think my mother was like more in the spectrum of affectionless control, she was very sick (she is schizofrenic) and she one day she forced me to sit in my chair to repet to perfection for an oral exam I had in middle school and due to this I began doing skin picking😅 even though my mother was very neglectful I remember she was always telling me to stop doing it like as your mom did...

Thanks for this video Annette! Been picking my skin for probably 20 years.

After recovering from trauma-induced dermatillomania, I still notice that food sensitivities can put me in a state where I’m more likely to pick. It’s been years since I recovered, and I almost never pick now. But if I eat something I’m sensitive to, I get anxiety and brain fog, and when my nervous system is disturbed like that, it doesn’t take much.

Amazing !

I really like eating my fingers though

Not me picking my nails while watching this 😂 oh man lol

what helped me was when I saw my hand close I put it down

ikr I do it a lot this helped

I know these traps well! Very similar ones during addiction!

I’m guessing this is just for anxious, fidgeting and minor skin picking. Because I have Dermatillomania with my severe OCD, and the only thing that I can do is at least keep my hands as busy as I can with something else that isn’t causing me severe harm like picking(like I mean open wounds!) Very good video with some very good information but maybe somewhere in the beginning it should be mentioned that it’s for minor issues like that :) Unfortunately, for me there’s no way I will become less fidgety with all of my other mental illnesses on top of it(although that doesn’t stop me trying !) and there’s no medicine I can take to help me with mine just a certain type of therapy, and some of the things you mentioned, I like to use finger condoms(yk what I mean that’s just what I call them haha) Edit: I went to your account and read the description so I said that this is for people like me, which is great, of course because you offer some very good tips, and I will definitely continue watching your channel! But along the lines of what I said before, it can be harmful to talk about not using fidgets like that( of course you didn’t directly say that as you mentioned) but if you can stop yourself from hurting yourself in the time being while you undergo therapy, that would be the ideal way:) Sorry for all that typing lol I I struggle with severe OCD and Dermatol a mania, and my whole scalp is quite literally covered in scabs, along with a lot of other parts of my body, I’ve always had cystic acne, so my face has always been horrifically scabbed with really bad, infected wounds. I’m just trying to find a good fidget toy that , like you said, he’s going to work better than one that I’m just gonna set down and forget!

I have ADHD, when I pick at my proximal nail fold it is looking to find a rougher bit to rub against my lips. It is a form of self soothing as well as stimming, I find myself doing this without being fully aware of it. This has been something I've done since I was about age 6 - currently 40 so it's been in the picture for multiple decades.....

Thank you ❤

I pick my lips at night for some reason. In the daytime I never do.

Finger gloves, wow, going to give it a try!

I've been picking my lips for like 4 months now. Doesnt matter how moisturized they are i dig until i can peel them til they bleed. As a ventriloquist i really need to stop and want to stop, but like for example while I'm watching tv I'll just like jump and go oh I'm picking my lips right now, i need to stop and continue doing it.

So very very helpful thank you!

I began doing this after being on accutane and it completely destroying my lips

I came here bc i can’t avoid picking on my hangnails 😭😭

Is this medicine allowed in the uk as have if so that would be amazing 😍as been pulling out my eyes lashes out since my uncle died in a sky diving accident in January 2013 and I got an learning disability

I can’t stop picking my lips

I remember I was getting yelled at and my teacher was very strict and I looked down at my finger and there was blood everywhere

This comes from being weaned to early in dogs...... Probably related to not breastfeeding in humans......

Throw away the cotton gloves. Use nitrile gloves, it accelerates the healing and draws moisture from your body into the skin in addition to the moisturiser's effect. You can also wear them during the day without inhibiting dexterity. Great skin and nails in a few days. You must still continue regular daily moisturising when not using the gloves.

I feel like if I would try to do the second one then I would start picking my chest

This was so helpful! Thank you.

What I have noticed is I would pick at my lips to fidget since I have ADHD and no fidget toy would do as best but my lips and I would pick them non stop all day every day even in public and I have been doing this for years and I wanted to stop cause my lips were cracked and hurt and I wanted to wear lip gloss and lipstick but it doesnt look as good with chapped and cracked lips and I think they might be scarred because I would pick them till they were bleeding I have it really bad. but do you think a lip scrub would work as well as the lip brush?

Im 16 right now and i have a bad habit of using a pocket knife and digging under my nails with it. I also pick at them in school when im bored. I really hope i can stop soon because ive been picking since i was 4. I got my sister to hide the pocket knife and that has helped a lot

Thank you ❤