#dermatillomania /

[sabertoothwalrus]

I feel like BFRB’s are REALLY common despite being so stigmatized, and I wanted to see how many of you are out there :)

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[moved-to-piersgender]

i hope everyone with acne, eczema, vitiligo, psoriasis, dermatitis, dermatillomania, and skin conditions have a good day today

[ranyakumos]

recent conversation

[andiv3r]

"Do not rip your skin off" you say. Well did you ever consider that the skin started it?

[hannaxjo]

[the-lost-kids]

they should invent a skin picking that’s actually really good and fine and it makes the textures go away forever and ever

[dermatillomaniahealing]

Hang in there and remember that swelling will go down soon!!!

[fence-time]

Hashtag dermatillomania moment

[tofu-bento-box]

with this neat trick you too can turn minor blemishes into scars that’ll last decades

[valtsv]

Hi I hope this doesn't come off as rude but how did you know you have dermatillomania? I suspect I might have it but im not sure how to go about getting a diagnosis or anything. Would love to know more if you're ok with explaining your experiences.

not rude, you're fine. i guess i just like. researched the symptoms and felt that they aligned with my experiences, so i decided to use "dermatillomania" as a label to explain that and make it easier to understand. it's not generally something you get diagnosed with on its own unless it's really severe and you decide or are advised to seek help for it, because it's usually a side effect of preexisting conditions like anxiety disorders, OCD, or stress, so treating that underlying condition would be key to helping you with the skin picking. the only thing i can think of that separates dermatillomania from the general act of picking at your skin that all humans sometimes engage in is that it becomes a compulsive, habitual, sometimes even unconscious behavior. at my worst, i'll tear holes in my face without even knowing that i've done it until someone points out that i'm bleeding, or i feel the dried blood on my skin later. and even when i do know i'm doing it and that i shouldn't be, i often can't stop myself from giving in to the impulse.

[pileofpawns]

Apparently I made this late Friday night and then promptly forgot about it, so here,

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[iliothermia]

Who’s your favourite oc? And what makes them your fav?

Matillo! I've drawn him the most, he always has different hair and such but he's always him in my brain.

He was originally a vent character I drew that was the embodiment of my struggle with trich/dermatillomania (symbolized in his fingertips and scars on his shoulders, his hair in most drawings is not his own) He's a betrayed man who refuses himself to be close to anyone again, undying, a bit of a monster. He wallows in his own pain and suffering and it's definitely to avoid being vulnerable addressing any of it. He's basically my one bad boy. I mean monster kind of literally, he's kind of like a Cronenberg monster. His flesh can flay itself, unfurl and consume other organisms. He's my favorite because he comes from my really raw, angry, worst years of my life and is a good reminder in a way of how far I've come! He's my safe spot to put all my anger from trauma into. He'll be happy again someday, I've been thinking of this recently.

[the-sun-is-also-a-star]

if you're one of those people who are like "oh my god im so ocd!!" and then you just like to be organized, shut the fuck up. literally shut the FUCK up. You have no fucking idea what its like. Its like being trapped in a mental prison. Its being called weird and ridiculed by my own family because i have to wash my hands between helpings of food or because i have to run out of the bathroom when i flush the toilet or because even when i smell something awful i have to breath through my nose instead of my mouth because if i breath through my mouth it feels like i can taste it. Its developing conditions that accompany it, like excoriation disorder which makes me dig into my nails so hard they're permanently fucked up and look ghastly and sometimes even bleed and which means i have scabs on my head all the fucking time because i pick at them constantly, or misophonia which makes me flinch at every trigger sound, it gets so bad to the point where i start hitting myself and had to move away from walls because i was sure i was going to bang my head against one. hard. It's having violent intrusive thoughts, sick intrusive thoughts, thoughts that make you stay up into all hours of the night and fret over whether you're a good person, thoughts that make you think about death all the time. your own death, death of loved ones, how people will die, how people will react to you dying. It's having morality ocd, which makes you hate yourself more than anything after any minor mess up. It changes your life. Its fucking hard to live with. so i never want to hear "oh I'm so ocd" from people who aren't actually ocd ever a-fucking-gain.

[attex]

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