“What treatments exist for compulsive skin pickers?”
I have a really bad habit of compulsively picking my skin. I know I should stop - sometimes I end up opening these extremely painful wounds, but I really am compulsive about it, I guess. What treatments exist for compulsive skin pickers?
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Compulsive skin picking [called excoriating disorder] is a form of obsessive compulsive disorder and responds to the same treatment as OCD. Connecting with a therapist who specializes in treating OCD [treatment is Exposure Relapse Preventive Therapy] and starting one of the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor antidepressants such as Prozac or Zoloft in combination, has the greatest efficacy and success rate.