Does anyone else pick at their private areas?

[elzie]

Ever since I was little I've been prone to self harm. Cutting, burning, tearing out hair etc. But I also pick the skin/hairs of my private area...so much so that it looks like a awful shaving rash constantly.

Does anyone else do this? Or am I alone in being a little creepy?:(:confused::rolleyes:

[norwegian mafia]

Woah me too. It's sort of an on/off thing -- I'll do it several times a day for a week and then not at all for a week, but yeah. I'll do it when I get stressed out -- my boyfriend will say something that makes me feel angry/sad/like a piece of shit and I'll go into the bathroom and start picking/plucking. I think to myself that it's just to make myself look better for me/him, but it really makes it much worse. Can't stop picking at ingrown hairs/old scabs/anything abnormal on the skin. Blah.

[fickle iris]

Oh my god I do that too!!! Like if someone makes me feel crappy- or even the flipside if someone is complimenting me and stuff I get all guilty and go and pluck hair down there. Sometimes I think I do it so I wouldnt want to show myself to anyone or get intimate- I mean I pick at the ingrown hairs and such so it looks all red and weird and and probably to an ignorant eye that I've got some kind of obscure STD... I wish I'd stop, I always feel so horrible after I do it.

[JellyButter]

I have this same problem.
Its really bad, i do it especially before i go to sleep. I dont know why....
Im trying really hard to stop

[Mianis]

I used to do this, pick at the ingrown hairs and scabs. Not too much anymore though.

[RunawayBunny]

I don't pick, but I do compulsively pluck my pubic hair. I get sucked into it for hours but I haven't really suffered any negative effects from it other than time loss lol.

[elzie]

It's relieving to know that there's other people like that.

[forever_wanting]

Plucking hair anywhere is almost a coping strategy for me, it distracts me and calms me while passing the time. When I was a teenager my legs were covered in scabs and scars from it, but now I 'manage' it better. I think it's part of my trich as I pull hair from my head too.

[ricecakes]

I don't pick, but I do compulsively pluck my pubic hair. I get sucked into it for hours but I haven't really suffered any negative effects from it other than time loss lol.

oh god im the exact same. i thought i was a weirdo freak haha!! and i also pick at ingrown hairs and scabs.. so yeah it totally looks like shaving rash and im more of a waxer ahaha

[Beckytea]

I'm so glad other people do this haha

[arrow]

I do it, too. Haha. I have been since I was 13

[EmKay]

This is extremely common in people who have been sexual abused. I am not trying to imply anything, I've just read a number of journal articles and books on the matter.

[Tora]

yeah i do that its really addictive, and once i start trying to pick at the ingrown ones i CANT stop until i get it out no matter how much it hurts/ is bleeding its so gross but i just have to do it. plucking is so satisfying, i cant believe people actually do this aswell!

[Illicitus]

i have been doing this since i was like 12 i had no idea anyone else did this too.
it bugs me so much but i cant stop.
sometimes ill end up sitting in the bathroom doing this for over an hour :/