I guess I have just itched a lot for my entire life, so I just scratch and don’t really think about it. But it was recently brought to my attention by someone, and I realized that I am scratching constantly. Like all over my body. I’ll scratch my leg, then my head itches, then the back of my hand, then my cheek, then my arm, and so on and so on, every few seconds. I might scratch 10 or 20 spots within a minute. I think I might stop scratching if I’m really focused on something, but if I start thinking about my itching, then it just keeps happening. And like I said, I think this has been going on for my entire life, but I never really paid much attention to it. Is this normal?
I’m gonna go a different direction than the other replies. I have experienced something similar, and received pretty heavy feedback about it not looking great, etc. For me, it was psychological. I had to do pretty basic behavioral modification to address it as a teen, and then again later in life in a period of high stress. I do actually have skin issues that cause itchiness, but those weren’t the root cause. They didn’t help, tho.
In short, you may not actually be itchy, you could be ticcy. Both can be treatable 🙂
This was my first thought reading his post as well. That and lotion.