The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) categorizes excoriation as an obsessive-compulsive behavior that’s made up of recurrent body-focused actions. Others find it’s a habit that’s hard to abstain from. It’s a compulsive body-focused repetitive behavior, and people who engage in it often don’t even realize they’re doing it. Excoriation disorder, commonly known as the “skin picking disorder,” is a psychiatric condition that is characterized by the repetitive and sometimes aggressive picking of one’s own skin.