Most of us find it hard to resist scratching a bite, picking a scab or squeezing a spot, but if you can't stop fiddling with your skin, it might be a mental health issue. — dpaAnd many adults scratch scabbed-over wounds until they bleed again or mosquito bites until they weep.
Also known as excoriation disorder or dermatillomania, this condition is more common in women than men, says Dr Steffen Gass, head of psychosomatic dermatology at the Professional Association of German Dermatologists .“It leaves scars, of course,” Dr Gass says. The areas of the body affected are those easily accessible to the hands, notes Dr Gass, namely, the face, as well as forearms and lower legs.“They show their skin,” he says. ”And then it’s up to the doctor to recognise that they don’t have an evolved dermatosis” – don’t have a skin disease, that is, but something they caused themselves.
"But it can have drastic effects for some sufferers,” remarks psychologist Martin Grunwald, founder of the Haptic Research Laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany. bother with it, while others think it disfigures them and might go away faster if they squeeze it a little and apply ointment.
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