Q: do parents that have a skin picking disorder harm their child or pass the habits to them ?
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I am not a medical professional and would not be able to give you medical advice.
Skin picking is often a sign of obsessive compulsive disorder, which is an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders have been found to be, at least in part, hereditary and so in that way it can be passed from parent to child.
If you, or your child, are having problems with skin picking, you should speak with your physician.
You can find out more about this:
ADHD and Compulsive Picking at Skin or Pulling out Hair
I hope this helps, please let me know if you have further questions.
Eileen
Hi there
Can you tell us more about the situation? Do you have such a disorder? I honestly don't think you will harm your child just by having this issue yourself. Your child may be curious though. Are you seeing any evidence that your child is doing the same behavior?
The main thing is to get help for this disorder for yourself.
Let us know more about what is going on.
Thank you so much for your question.
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