Obsessive Skin Picking - What It's Like to Have Dermatillomania
Judging by my actions, I have never had as much contempt for anything as I do my own face. A conventionally attractive face with a Roman nose and cleft chin and infinitesimal birthmark under one eye (though I honestly never remember which one).
I've attacked my face with probably a dozen objects that are either sharp or hard at one end—tweezers, an extruder, an earring post, an unspooled paperclip, a pushpin, a toothbrush handle, the rough side of a nail file, lotion caps, and nail clippers.
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