I think my DP has dermatophagia, I'm not sure though.
He has eczema and really dry skin and he scratches his skin a lot, I first noticed him picking and eating a bit of skin about 6 months into our relationship, at the time I felt really awkward and wasn't 100% sure that's what I saw so I didn't say anything, and I haven't said anything 2 years later. We have a great relationship, we really do, but this is something I just can't bring up. I wish I could just say to him "hey why are you eating yourself?" But I can't. I think he thinks that I don't notice, it's obviously something he's done for many, many years way before he met me. He'll do it when I'm sitting right next to him but looking away, but I can still see out of the corner of my eye and now I know for sure that's what he's doing. I think it's a comfort thing, something he does without realising. This part I feel uncomfortable even writing annoymously on the internet. Probably click off this thread if you have a weak stomach.
There's been a few times I've seen him picking at himself, then i'll look at him and he'll stop and we'll talk about something while he's had a piece of skin in his hand, and as soon as I turn my head or look down or whatever his hand goes straight to his mouth and he'll eat it.
He has pretty dry skin too so his bed will have some dry skin in after he's slept in it, once he was wiping down his bed and he picked up a bit of skin, I thought he was guna chuck it, I was willing in my head for him to just put it in the bin but he put it in his mouth.
I have a pretty weak stomach so this obviously really grosses me out, to the point where we just don't kiss, I see him do it so often I just can't bring myself to kiss him anymore.
I just don't know how I would bring this up, he's sensitive and I know he would feel really ashamed. He'd never get help either I know he'd just be too embarrased so what would it change. I don't know anything about this compulsion and if dermatophagia is even what he has.
I just don't know what to do anymore.