A Pennsylvania mother of two has a skin-picking disorder so severe that she’s begging doctors to be put into a coma.

Linda Smith, 50, has had dermatillomania, which causes sufferers to uncontrollably pick at healthy skin as if it were a scabbed-over wound, since she was a child — picking for “as long as I can remember” — and now longs for freedom from her eight-hour “picking marathons.”

Her condition has left her unwilling to leave her home due to the scabs all over her face and the side effects from steroid cream that is meant to heal her, which leaves her needing to shave her face daily.

“It is very hard to deal with all of the time,” she told Caters News of her condition. “This might sound extreme but I feel like I want to be dead already because it is just never going to stop. I feel completely hopeless and helpless about ever being able to control, much less stop, picking.”

She believes that the only way she can heal completely is if she was totally unable to touch it.

“The only way this could ever happen would be if I were unconscious and put in a coma,” she said. “I don’t think they would ever put you in a coma so your skin could heal but I definitely would do it if it was an option.

“I think the only thing that would help me is to either be put in a straitjacket or have somebody watch me 24 hours a day and stop me the second I started picking.”

Smith said she waits until night to even take her trash to the curb, and has gained around 30 pounds in the last year as a result of depression and low self-esteem stemming from her condition. Doctors have warned her against wearing makeup to avoid aggravating her compromised skin, another blow to how she feels about her looks.

“I’ve stopped caring about what the rest of me looks like because my face is so hideous,” she said.

“It is taking over my life. It affects everything. It is like the older I get, the worse it gets.”