What is Dermatillomania?
Dermatillomania is a mental health condition in which a person has a strong desire to scratch, scratch, or scratch their skin. As a result, skin trauma/injury, infection, scarring - all these in themselves cause stress, anxiety and restlessness, which aggravates the inner mood of the person even more.
Dermatillomania is cured; The condition can be managed with medication and therapy.
Dermatillomania is more often observed in people with acne or eczema.
In some cases, mechanical irritation of the skin becomes an automatic reaction, and a person does not even realize when he has damaged the surface, while sometimes a person realizes what he is doing and simply cannot give up this bad habit.
As a rule, the following areas of the body are touched and scratched or shot:
The exact cause of dermatillomania is unknown, however, according to experts, the following contribute to the development of the disorder:
Source:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22706-dermatillomania-skin-picking