Hi everyone
I could really do with your expert advice please but this time it's not regarding me, it's about my daughter.
She is 18 and has a disability, one of the "traits" that seem to go with people who have the condition is skin-picking..picking at scabs until they bleed repeatedly, that type of thing.
She has never shown that type of behaviour but every so often she sits and pulls at her eyelashes as she says that they are making her eyes itchy, this often ends up with her pulling out a lot of the lashes.
The eyes often get very sore but she eventually stops yanking them out and the eye heals. Since Monday she has been pulling at them constantly, no diversionary tactic has worked and I have just had to call the GP for an emergency appointment this afternoon as the eye is so swollen it has now closed up completelyand there are no lashes left at all. As you can imagine I'm at my wits end.
I have asked about this behaviour on a specialist forum but received no replies, do you think this could be a form of OCD?
I don't want to give her labels but it would help to know if anyone has come across this particular habit before..I'm getting desperate.
Thanks to anyone that replies.