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How Facebook Is Censoring the Skin Picking Community

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Excoriation disorder, aka dermatillomania, is a psychological disorder that manifests through an overwhelming urge to pick at one’s own skin to the extent that damage is caused.

People who pick at their skin are not doing it because they want to create marks on their skin; they cannot stop this compulsive behavior without various interventions, supports or therapy.

In the past few months, Facebook has been detecting images of damaged skin in its groups and automatically removing them for violating Community Standards of depicting “self injury” or “suicide,” both which dermatillomania is not related to.

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