Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
We all know at least one person who loves popping pimples or blackheads, who watches the videos on YouTube or can’t tear their eyes away from Dr. Pimple Popper on TLC.
If you’ve been (un?)lucky enough to date or marry someone obsessed with popping pimples – theirs and yours – then your experiences might be a bit more intimate.
The urge and practice is pretty common, but what drives a person to want to do such a thing?
Matt Traube, a child and family psychotherapist, is weighing in on what experts call “body-focused repetitive behaviors” like skin picking and pimple popping.
“For many people, there is a wonderful satisfaction that comes from popping a pimple – it’s almost euphoric. You not only relieve the physical pressure of the blockage, there’s a pleasant mental effect as well from the release of dopamine.”
Dopamine, of course, makes your brain happy. And, it turns out, we get the same rush from popping other people’s pimples as we do from popping our own.
No surprise given that Dr. Pimple Popper had over 3 million YouTube followers even before she made the jump to cable television.
There are a few reasons, says Traube, why a spouse or romantic partner would want to squeeze their significant other’s zits, but only a few of them are really healthy.
“As disgusting as it might sound to some, that you would pick your partner’s pimples,…
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