Skin Picking
Skin picking is characterized by repeatedly picking one's skin, resulting in skin lesions and repeated attempts to decrease or stop skin picking. It is an impulse control disorder and a type of body focused repetitive behaviour. Skin picking disorder is known as excoriation or dermatillomania.
Skin picking is often accompanied by intense emotion. The most commonly picked sites are the skin from lips, face, arms, and hands, many individuals may pick their skin from different other body sites. Individuals may pick at healthy skin, at minor skin irregularities, at lesions such as pimples or calluses, an individual picks at their skin to the extent that it causes wounds.
Most individuals pick with their fingernails, they may also use tweezers, pins, or other objects. Along with skin picking, there may be skin rubbing, bitting, squeezing and lancing. People also pick their skin to relieve stress, later it becomes a habit.