Popping Zits and Picking Scabs - TLC- My Strange Addiction 01/04/2011 Zit-popping and scab-picking are a full-blown addiction for me. I have done research on it and found out that it is called "dermatillomania" (a form of compulsive skin-picking), which is a rarer cousin of trichtillomania (compulsive hair-pullin