G is a picker. Scabs, nose, ears, skin. But there's one type of picking that I simply don't understand. He will take a little piece of skin on the tip of a finger and pick and pick. It goes in cycles, and its been a year or so since its been a problem. Today he came to me and I thought he'd been painting. Nope- that magenta colored spot on his pinky finger was his own doing.
How do we stop this? I think what really bothers me is that I know it hurts him. He's inflicting some pain on himself compulsively. Or obsessively. I don't know which.
I feel like painting it with NewSkin could help. It would hurt, which would be a deterrent. And it would cover the wound for awhile while it heals. But it seems almost like torture to do that. Bandaids just give him something else to pick at and mess with. The pediatricians have no ideas for me. I'm lost.
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