do any of your kids pick at themselves?
my 15 year old daughter dx with ADD, she is on 20 mg adderal, and 10 mg prozac. she picks at the skin around her fingers to the point where its bleeding and sore. do any of your kids do this?
My daughter is only 7 but I would talk to your psychologist if you are seeing one or psychiatrist they can help you best.Medicines sometimes cause ticks like your daughters. I myself have picked at my fingernails and around them since I was a kid. I consider it an ocd on my part. I just do it when I am thinking to much about something or very stressed about something.o my gosh!!!! My son is 7ys old and he does this ALL the time. I am so glad to here that he is not the only one that does this. I call it his nervous tic!
He has adhd, OCD, Bipolar with depression, IED, and PANDAS
And I have to cut some of the skin off from around his fingers because he will pull and pick at it until it hurts too bad for him to do it anymore and then he just has skin hangin there.
He complains all the time about his fingers hurting.
When I catch him doing it and he says that he can't stop I will hold his hand for a while until I think he has forgotten and then I let go and he usually moves on to something else.
But I know that your daughter probably doesn't want you holding her hand!!
So good luck and if you figure out what it's from please let me know and I'll do the same.
Hi, all thanks for letting me know im not the only one. She always did this before but not to this magnitude. she is on prozac which is one of the meds that are used to stop skin picking.....i guess its not working.
last night i went into her room with antibitic cream and sat next to her with a box of bandaides and cleaned up her fingers and wrapped them.
i guess i will see what the doc says.
thanks again. deanna
I just had a thought could it be from bordem, a way of coping?I have done this as far back as I can remember. I pick the skin all the way around my fingers, it bleeds, it hurts, it looks horrible, it's embaracing and I can't stop! I do it when I am stressed the most, but in this cool weather with dry hands I do it too. It's kinda like self mutilation. And OCD. The only times I ever stopped in my life was one time when I let my finger nails grow real pretty and another time when I quit smoking for a while. And I tend to do it more when my nails grow out from being really short. I don't know how to stop it.....I hate doing it. My mom does it too, but not as bad as me. My son does not do it, and he's not on meds either.