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Having anxiety is bad enough, without physically wearing it in self-induced bloody tick marks and bruises on your skin. Not to mention, bloody nails and fingertips, or a bloody chin from picking at bloody lips.

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It annoys me how much it controls me but it doesn’t annoy me enough to stop.

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Everybody worries. Worry is normal. Anxiety is about not being able to function because your mind is in a constant state of apprehension.

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It’s called “Dermatillomania” or just “Derma” if you don’t like the “mania” part of it all.