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Is your lifestyle controlling you or are you in control of your lifestyle?
I think my shopping is out of control. I have quite a bit of debt and as I work on a freelance basis, and as of a month ago after losing a major client to a recession slow-down I am making quite a bit less than I was last year and money is now an issue for me where it wasn’t really before. You’d think that now that I am nearly broke I’d be more careful with my spending, but it seems like the opposite is true and the more worried I get about other things in my life the more I crave getting to the mall to buy some more clothes that I really don’t need. I have had friends comment in the past about how I shopped but since I was single and making a good living and could afford it, it was never really a major issue. Now, I think it’s something I need to get a handle on…but how do I get rid of those shopping cravings?
Read answer →Compulsive Picking: Finding out the benefits
I started picking when I was about 16. I pick around the cuticles of my fingers and I can spend hours a day using my finger nails and small manicure scissors to remove small strips of skin from my fingers. My hands look like raw hamburger. It is so embarrassing but I have never been able to control myself. I notice some little piece of skin on a finger and I just have to have to pick at it. I don’t know why I can’t control myself. What can I do to stop myself from doing this? I am without any good ideas. I have tried wearing gloves at home, but I just don’t end up doing it and it’s not like I only pick at home and it’s not like I can wear gloves around all the time.
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