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Is dermatillomania or compulsive skin picking a form of self mutilation?

April 26, 2017A-Z compulsive disorder disorders Fitness Health illnesses mental obsessive personality

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Is dermatillomania or compulsive skin picking a form of self mutilation?

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Of course it is. An individual inflicts harm upon their own person, thus self-mutilation. Look up the definition of self, then mutilation and you should be able to deduce the broad spectrum of qualified scenarios. That is a very general question and it answers itself. Self-harm is self-harm.