addicted to scratching the dandruff flakes from my head

I have the same problem but the thing is i like it. i olny use shampoo to make my head better for bigger flakes. oh and u proboly cant see all the dandruff on just a black surface, u need to use a flashlight, from a certian distance u can see every litle flake.

When I do have dandruff, on ocassion, I will scratch my head. But I'm mostly obssesed with scratching my family member's heads. They hate it so much but I just can't help it. I can not stand to see the flaks barely holding on to their heads! My mother's is the worst! I always scratch her before she takes a shower while she's sitting down some where. She hates it more than anything! My boyfriend also has dandruff on ocassion but when he does it's horrible! He enjoys to have his head scratched because it itches him and it's fun because as I'm picking at the flaks they fall and look like snow! :-D

same!! it passes the time plus it is funnnn :-D

Wow! I do this, ALL THE TIME! I'm 16 and out of shear boredom searched this online. This is really great to know I'm not the only one!

I think u r all a little crazy for doing this. Have any of u seen a dermatologist?? What about Plaque Psoriasis. When dandruff dries on my hair and i brush it ot itch it in any way I get an allergy that stuffs me up and makes my eyes and nose run.....so much so that i am now on Allerga and that only helps a little. To be this is nothing to fool around with and with the itching,until u bleed,its a wonder u do not get an infection. My scalp feels like a skating rink most of the time, and digging it offers me no relief,and am thinking maybe i have a fungus. Will still continue to doctor for this condition, as i do not think mine is a compulsion. Oh well, as my mother used to tell me, everybody to their own taste said that woman who kissed the cow!!!!!

thank god. im an 18 year old girl who is in love with this. sometimes i scratch my scalp to the point where i begin to bleed. then it hurts and im sad that i cant continue to watch the flakes fall. so weird. glad you people are out there

I am VERY glad i'm not the only one with this problem! I have a sort of addiction to scratching and pulling flakes off the back of my head. It's very hard to talk to my family about, because it's hard to explain that even though sometimes it hurts it's very addictive and somewhat enjoyable. it also calms me down. i hate it, it's a very nasty habit, and at times it hurts. But i can't stop! my family always tries different creams to put on the back of my head, or shampoos. But they don't help. And honestly, it's more of a mental issue then physical. I can physically stop whenever i want. But i'm very addicted to it. Any advice from anyone????

I do the same thing, I started about 2 years ago and i like nothing more then to take my nail and run it through my scalp and find a crusty area, as soon as I do I like to look at it in the mirror and then pick at it either with my finger nail or sometimes with this fine comb I have. I like to get the comb under the flake and rip it up from my scalp so it stays whole. I then like to collect the fallen flakes into a pile on a black book I have and I look at them for a few mins, feeling them sometimes I pull them apart a bit but when i'm done looking I actually save the flakes in a small bottle I have. Talk about disgusting I have no idea why I do this, I have no idea what i lke so much about the flakes and crust on my head its insane. I also tell my father that he has alot of flakes on the back of his head and ask him if i can pick them off. If he lets me I get behind his chair while he sitting and go through the back of his head with a comb picking any of his flakes off to. He sometimes gets an awful lot especially because he doesnt wash his hair often, he showers alot but only washes his hair like once every 2 weeks or so. Ive noticed that if I leave my head alone the flakes and the crusty areas eventually just go away. We cause our own flakes to form and thats a fact. A little dandruff may be normal for some people but the giant head flakes are deffenitly caused by us. The more we pick off the more they grow back and spread. Why do I enjoy running a fine comb slowly through my head and having the comb stop because I hit a flakey spot? Why do I enjoy picking through this flakey spot with my nails or comb? and above all why Do I feel the need to save the flakes? This is the only wacky compulsive thing I do and I think that there are alot more people that do this then I even realized. Good luck everyone.

Okay I'm the same way and I actually thought that I was the only person who does this. It's like a nonstop thing for me. It's like at first I would wash my hair and I wouldnt feel the urge to do it because my hair felt clean. It was only when it felt greasy that I did it more. But I think it's getting worse because even after I wash it I feel this unknown driving need to scratch the dandruff from my head. I dont even have very bad dandruff but I can't stop. Everything little task I want to do is prolonged with this urge to scratch. It also creates this weird smell on my fingers that is kindof addicting too. I'm having alot of pain in my neck that I think is linked to this obsessive habit from putting my head down for so long. By the time I raise up my neck hurts so much. I want to stop because it irritates me. It's like having a loose tooth when I was little. Although it hurt when I put pressure on it, I still kept doing it. This is exactly how it is for me except on a different scale. I feel like I'm scratching my brains out and I desperatly want to stop!!

I love getting my head scratched by other people! It feels SO GOOD. And I love shaking my head and watching it snow to the floor. I had lice once, dealt with it, and ever since then i just scratch where i used to and its become an obsession. IT only happens when im bored or thinking a lot. ahhhhh so frustrating.

I am a 16 year old Boy and i do the SAME thing! its been about a year or 2 now.. it is definitly an addiction. I am right handed and have noticed that my left side of my scalp is more scratched than the right side.. so i think it has something to do with an unoccupied hand, I have been using head and shoulders for 3 years and it has not shown ANY effect. someone come up with a proven solution that would work! Please! i heard that if the scratching continues, it could result in a massive ammount of hair loss.. permenant too. the flakes are SO fun, but bad.. just bad.. Someone help! :-(

Hi, I thought I was the only one who has this problem so I am so glad other ppl feel this way to.
I mostly pick my sisters hair and my mother the most..its so bad that my sisters start wearing hats when their around me.
I've been picking dandruff for about 6 years, I started after I got lice 6 yrs ago and ever since then I have this horriable urge to pick my and my family's dandruff... I'm 12 yrs old and I want this to stop before it starts to get even worse then it is now...




I need help!!!!

OMG i just had my sister have a dandruff scraching raid on my head, lol, i find it funny cuz i wash my hair like once a week and do nothing with it for products and i still have like horrid dandruff

I am so happy to learn that I am not alone in this situation! I've been thinking about it the past couple weeks to google it and finally did it today and what a relief that I'm not alone! I am a 24 y/o female and I have been doing this for twelve years. I used to yell at myself like "agh, what am I doing stop it. This isn't normal." But as time progressed I've become extremely dependent on it and don't want my dandruff to go away. Even when I don't have dandruff I will scrape at my skin with my fingernails, fingernail clippers, scissors, knives, etc to get some skin to come up to pull or pick at. My fingernails are always digging at the the top of my head and I take a comb and make little sections so I can see if there is dandruff there to scrape off and sometimes if there is I will take tweezers and try to pull the skin off one by one. Then on the back of my head I roughly drag my fingertip across and check my finger when it's done. When I would wash my hair it would burn because of removing all the skin on my head. It's an awful habit that is so hard to break. For years I've thought something is seriously wrong with me to be doing this type of behavior. In the past I've tried stopping and found myself picking up other odd behaviors, such as, tweezing and pulling at my nose hair I've caused scabs in my nose and have actually perm removed some of my skin inside my nose from doing it so much. I've stopped doing that, thankfully, but now I'm back to doing the whole dandruff thing again. I've even started scratching at my forehead when my face is dry or right above my eyebrows too where I get dry skin sometimes.

I've been monitoring when I've been doing it and I usually only do it when I'm unable to handle my emotions (either when I'm stressed, sad, or angry) so what I've been doing since is when I get the strongest urge I run to the bathroom and wet my hair down because I have no desire to mess with my scalp while I have damp hair. It's been working pretty good actually. Or sitting on my hands if I'm watching tv or a movie. The only other thing I would suggest is getting shampoo that controls dandruff (either by the store or clinically) EVEN if you don't want to. and if you can't handle that then I would recommend going to a therapist to receive treatment for the OCD and or behavioral/ mental disorder.
I know that it's something really really hard to break but it's much better for your/our skin if you/we stop this asap before the damage becomes more permanent.

oh my gosh. i thought i was the only one like this! I am a 16 yr. old female and i have just one spot that i just love it scratch and pick at!
i know its bad, and it started to bleed, so its just a red circle in a white one haha
oh man... im just so relieved to know that im not the only one ! :-D