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Skin Picking - Can never control my hands
I think I need some help because I can never control my hands. I always had really bad acne. I started getting zits bad in like grade 7 and I’ve been living with pimples for years. Now I’m a senior in high school and actually my acne is really a lot less than it used to be. But the problem is I can’t stop squeezing zits and picking at my face, even spots that don’t even have a zit but kind of feel like they might be something in there, I squeeze and pick at those too. My mom was always telling me to stop picking at my face. She said it was just going to make things get infected and worse. I did not but maybe I should have. Now my acne is getting kind of under control but my face looks even more gross than it ever did. Now it’s my squeezing and picking that’s doing the damage. I am not joking when I say that I make myself bleed almost every day from picking. I know this, but I can’t seem to stop myself from picking. I’ll be watching TV and I won’t even know what I am doing but when I notice I see that I am picking at some imaginary spot on my face and before exam times and stuff when things get kind of stressed around here, my picking gets way worse. I have been reading on the internet and I think that I have skin picking disorder. But I am not sure what exactly I am supposed to do to make it go away. I don’t think I’m going to be seeing a shrink or whatever because money is pretty tight around the house. Is there a drug or something that I can take to make this go away?
Read answer →Hard Habits to Break
I like to go clubbing. I got into the habit of picking at my skin and grinding my teeth from doing a lot of ecstasy and coke and speed. Now I can’t stop even though I am not really into that scene any more and don’t really do drugs very often. My dentist wants me to wear a retainer at night to protect my teeth because it’s so bad I have ground most of my enamel off. I pick the skin around my scalp and I do it whenever I am distracted now. I have these gross sores and I have to wear a headband all the time to hide them. I have tried everything I can think of to stop myself but it’s so frustrating because whenever I forget to think about it I just start doing it thoughtlessly again. Help!
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