article_snippet.sent: In an inspiring essay for Marie Claire, Jenna Marotta, 27, tells of The New York-based writer experience with dermatillomania - a compulsive skin-picking disorder that left The New York-based writer face bleeding - and how The New York-based writer managed to overcome it. '
article_snippet.sent: Jenna Marotta, 27, of New York, says Jenna habit of picking at the pores on my face was so all-consuming that my face became 'self-sabotaging' At first, Jenna was just looking for a way to break out of Jenna binge-eating routine.
article_snippet.sent: Jenna's use of the tweezers started off innocently enough, with Jenna plucking out stray hairs along Jenna eyebrows.
article_snippet.sent: Then Jenna started to become obsessive, revisiting Jenna brows several times a day and moving on to other areas of Jenna face, where Jenna would use those same tweezers to clear out pores and remove ingrown hairs. '
article_snippet.sent: Getting better: After accidentally going ten days without touching Jenna pores when Jenna forgot to pack Jenna tweezers for a trip, Jenna managed to move away from Jenna bad skin habit.
article_snippet.sent: Jenna was aware that Jenna skin-picking was growing out of control and visited a 'battalion' of dermatologists, who told Jenna that Jenna problem was psychosomatic.
article_snippet.sent: And Jenna didn't stop at using tweezers.
article_snippet.sent: Jenna admitted that Jenna's also 'attacked' Jenna face with an extruder, an earring post, an unspooled paperclip, a pushpin, a toothbrush handle, the rough side of a nail file, lotion caps, and nail clippers.
article_snippet.sent: One of Jenna's most agonizing memories was when the writer had to interview Steve Carrell after picking at a cyst on Jenna chin until it bled.
article_snippet.sent: Luckily, while travelling to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this January, Jenna forgot Jenna tweezers at home, resulting in ten whole days during which Jenna didn't pick at Jenna face.
highlights_snippet.sent: Jenna Marotta, 27, suffered from dermatillomania, a psychosomatic disorder that caused her to obsessively pick at the skin on her face .
  