the urge to stand in front of a mirror and poke at and squeeze her pores for hours on end became so bad that it actually started ` sabotaging ' her life .
in an inspiring essay for marie claire , jenna marotta , 27 , tells of her experience with dermatillomania - a compulsive skin-picking disorder that left her face bleeding - and how she managed to overcome it .
` i 'd descend `` into the mirror '' for up to four hours a day , ' jenna writes in the essay , explaining how her actions horrified her parents that