My therapist tried to help. I tried reading up on body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) and dermatillomania (skin-picking disorder), and learning new skills like urge surfing and replacement ...

When I get super anxious, like right before a date (or…during a date), it’s hard to resist picking at my cuticles or fiddling with bumpy patches of skin on my arms. I have obsessive-compulsive ...

Cystic-acne sufferers know that a cyst is not the same beast as your garden-variety pimple. While whitehead pimples sit on the surface of the skin (which, though unsightly, means they’re easier ...

Can’t stop picking? Give these expert interventions a go for managing dermatillomania. At the weekend, I spent a night in a hotel. The room was non-descript: a bed, a lamp, a corner to chuck my ...