Picking at my pores

I have been aware of my picking since I was probably since I was 11 or 12. I would go to the school counsler and she asked me why I was picking at the crease of my elbow when I talked. I looked down and that whole area was scarlett red. I had no idea I was doing it. I still use it sometimes to cope at school so I focus on the picking instead of the people around me.
A little while after that ( 7th grade maybe ) I started going to a non-school-counsler and she tried to help me with getting relaxed when I start to panic. She taught me to tense and release but somewhere along that I found digging my nails in my arms helped. I have gotten out of the habit lately but I still have scars.
Lets skips some forward.... My dad's girlfriend gave me her old magnifying mirror maybe a couple of years ago.. One that lights up. I don't even have acne but I do get black heads but they aren't even that big... but there is just someting that makes me have to get them out. sometimes I inticipate getting more to pick. I get  somtimes these ones that swell up before I pick that don't even have heads but those are my favorite to pick at. Its getting bad. I will pick for awhile. sometimes 30 mins on each place then going back to them later. My face is noticbly red ( I am very fair skined) and sometimes I make scabs that won't go away for weeks. (Partly because I pick at them so long) and I have 3 spots I pick at everyday. It is embarassing because high school kids have no time to sypathize. They don't know I pick of course but they make fun of the scabs. sometimes I think to my self just one more or I won't do it deep enough to scar. I don't even feel pain as much while picking. I become engrossed in it.  I have to do it everyday and if I don't do it for a couple of days I just make up for it.
I also tweeze. everyone makes fun of my eybrows. I used to have beautiful thick eybrows but they were still very blond. I am letting them grow out a little bit at a time now. I also have hypothyroid so my mom thinks thats why they are thin. (it CAN actually make your hair fall out) Try talking to my parents about innerturmoil, they allready have a older daughter who has been diagnosed as Bi-Polar since the 8th grade. ( She has been acting like it though since she was born)

I want to stop before It gets too bad and spreads...I just can't throw away my mirror.

[LivingwithOCD07]

This sounds anxiety related and some sort of social phobia. I don't know what to say except throw out the mirror, be done with the nitpicking all of your imperfections (which are probably only noticeable to you accept when you create the blemishes yourself.) Maybe you could find another activity that you enjoy such as swimming or Youth group at a church, art, writing, music, anything to focus your attention on something else while still seeking help from a therapist and psychiatrist who can put you on meds until you can control the compulsive picking.