Hello, I am concerned with the possibility of contracting infection from compulsively picking/popping zits. Does this have the potential to lead to serious/fatal illness? I have dermatillomania, the compulsion to constantly pick at ones own skin. My family doctor has taken a look at my back/shoulders and immediately prescribed me antibiotics. I'm very worried of becoming septic, and when I told my doctor of this, she smiled and simply said "My mind would not stretch to that. You would have to be picking much deeper in order to cause a blood infection". Please, ease my worries. I've been having upwards of three panic attacks a night.
Yes, I've heard of it... but never in someone with dermatillomania.
Yes, I've heard of it... but never in someone with dermatillomania.