Whats a skin picker?

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Restless Legs Syndrome RLS
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Usually a person displaying symptoms of Obsessive Complusive Disorder (OCD) which, when uncontrolled, compells the subject to pick at their skin, sometimes until it bleeds and even to the point of forming wounds.

This is a disorder that requires intervention if wounding is part of the symptomology

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