Hello

I have never been diganosed specifically with dermatillomania, but I have picked my fingers to bleeding since I was a child. I pick every finger from the cuticle up to the first knuckle and sometimes around the sides of a finger. I pick mindlessly while I'm driving, I pick while I'm nervous, I pick all the time an I can't stop. If there is a loose bit of skin I have to pick it even though I know if will bleed and just look worse. I have spent my life trying to hide my fingers from people because they look awful. I have accidentally gotten blood on my clothes, on papers, etc. I tried about 6 different medications and none of them helped at all. I tried therapy and that did not help either. I stopped both meds and therapy last November. I also struggle with depression and anxiety. I wasn't depressed as a kid, but I guess I was anxious and I guess that's tied in with the finger picking.