Is this amount of skin/nail/spot/eyelash/eyebrow picking a problem?

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I compulsively itch the inside of my ears every day, sometimes pull out eyelashes and eyebrows, pick my skin every day, pick the scabs on my mosquito bites every day, and very occasionally rip my toenails off. And I compulsively squeeze spots and lumps wherever and whenever I see them on me. I just feel like I have to.

I'm the person who also asked about whether it was normal to prefer to pluck off pubic hair with tweezers rather than to wax, by the way.

I also masturbate a lot, both when I want to and when I don't want to. Once or twice I have murmured 'No... no...' and I sometimes feel violated, but it's like my body is on autopilot, desperate to orgasm. I can't stand the feeling of being turned on and not relieving the tension. It's like picking spots and skin. If I don't get the job done, scratch the itch, smooth out what's jagged and incomplete, annihilate the imperfection, I don't feel okay.

It's only when I write all this down that it looks weird. Do I have a problem?

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  • PonyProblem
    3 years ago

    O C D

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  • Boojum
    3 years ago

    Expressing in words on paper or on a screen the things we do and the thoughts going on in our head creates some emotional distance, and so allows us to be a little more objective about what's going on. (OT, but this is why writing letters we never mean to send to people who have hurt us or pissed us off is effective in helping us sort out our feelings.)

    Any compulsive behaviour, whether it's causing pain, pleasure or some sensation between those two extremes is not healthy simply because we should always have conscious control over all our voluntary actions. What you describe is definitely not normal in the sense that most people do it most of the time, but you're also definitely not the first person in the history of humanity to do these things.

    The fact you asked the question here indicates that you're worried to some degree about what you do, and I would suggest that you seek professional advice about what you're doing and how you can redirect your energies into more positive channels. As I said, this isn't that uncommon, so you shouldn't be embarrassed about sharing all the details with a health professional; if they're qualified and have some experience in the real world, they will have heard very similar stories from others.

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  • my_life_my_way
    3 years ago

    It could be OCD or something if you do these things compulsively and have a lot of anxiety when you can’t do them.

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