Discussion skin picking

[3spiral]

does anyone else here skin picks? share your experiences!

here's mine:
kind of embarassed to say this because it's sometimes considered to be a "gross" place (especially with exposed wounds all the time???) but I have an habit of skin picking inside my belly button since literally ever. I don't remember any time when I didn't have the habit. there are periods of time when I don't do it so sometimes its healed but then suddenly I feel an itch and I need to keep obssessively picking pulling and scratching it or else idk I just feel really bothered. also it's so hard to reach inside your bellybutton sometimes so it's really frustrating

also I have an habit of scratching my thumb when I'm anxious or bored and sometimes a little bit of skin gets lifted and I need to pull it off until there's nothing more. this usually happens when I'm at school, when I don't have school it's rarer. my friends have seen the wounds that it leaves and they say it's gross and that I need to stop but I can't really lmao

sometimes its like as if there was a spot somewhere below my skin that itches and I really need to "dig" to reach it

 

[Jellifiishe]

i am similar but with biting!! i also have fucked up thumb from just.gnawing at it all day... my friends make fun of my no nails nd messed up fingers from my chewing at them.
i pick at all of my scabs too if i have any, but not just my bare skin

 

[3spiral]

i am similar but with biting!! i also have fucked up thumb from just.gnawing at it all day... my friends make fun of my no nails nd messed up fingers from my chewing at them.
i pick at all of my scabs too if i have any, but not just my bare skin

I also started chewing my fingers when I'm bored lol. once I couldn't sleep and started chewing on my pinky and woke up with a blister on it

 

[Jellifiishe]

I also started chewing my fingers when I'm bored lol. once I couldn't sleep and started chewing on my pinky and woke up with a blister on it

i had to start buying chew toys.. like.. for dogs.. they make some super cute ones with like.pastels. i still chew on my fingers though....

 

[3spiral]

i had to start buying chew toys.. like.. for dogs.. they make some super cute ones with like.pastels. i still chew on my fingers though....

honestly idk if chewing toys would do it because the pain is also a huge part at least for me

 

[Lamentice]

Yeah, I've had a boredom/stress triggered habit of biting the skin off the insides of my cheeks for as long as I can remember. I have permanent scarring and discoloration inside my mouth from it, and although it's gotten a lot better in recent years (long periods of time where my mouth is fully healed which used to never happen) I currently have one pretty large sore in my cheek that I've been biting at for like a week. Any random roughness I can feel on my cheeks I always want to bite down to a smooth texture. At its worst in the past I used to keep damp paper towel shoved between my teeth and cheeks for hours because the bleeding.

And yeah scabs, although I'm pretty sure picking scabs is normal for most people.

 

[3spiral]

Yeah, I've had a boredom/stress triggered habit of biting the skin off the insides of my cheeks for as long as I can remember. I have permanent scarring and discoloration inside my mouth from it, and although it's gotten a lot better in recent years (long periods of time where my mouth is fully healed which used to never happen) I currently have one pretty large sore in my cheek that I've been biting at for like a week. Any random roughness I can feel on my cheeks I always want to bite down to a smooth texture. At its worst in the past I used to keep damp paper towel shoved between my teeth and cheeks for hours because the bleeding.

And yeah scabs, although I'm pretty sure picking scabs is normal for most people.

oh, I didn't know this counted as skin picking but I have discoloration inside my mouth from biting too! and ow the way you described the bleeding sounds pretty bad :(

scabs is a common one too for sure