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it´s a kind of funny. i mean i already knew, that something is wrong with me, but didn´t realize that i´m mentally ill (again...) ... and didn´t realize that i suffer another disease which can be named, has symptoms, occurs in so many different ways etc. i opened a new topic because i haven´t read here about other mental problems. like i said, i didn´t realize it at first, but at this point it becomes clear, that i have the same problems than i had years ago, but that they show up in another way... 7, maybe 8 years ago i started to vomit, at least once sometimes three times a day. after some weeks i had to realize: hey, you got yourself bulimia! this whole stuff went on and on for 3 years, then i got to know my boyfriend, who had the same problem and suddenly both of us stopped our habits. i mean: you don´t want to live together, eating and eating and afterwords spending hours near the toilette. so we changed our lives: started to eat healthy, cook together every day, doing sport and together it wasn´t that difficult. that was 5 years ago, we´re still happy together and in fact everything is going quite well. that i pick my skin is a topic since my teenage years. i looked always a little more damaged than the others, but we had all the same problem: a dirty skin. time went by and now i´m in my mid twenties and in my case nothing has changed, it has even become worse, because i do not just pick and scratch what is already there: i do myself harm and i cause wounds, bloody and keep them open for a long long time, until there is a scarf. i realized that it´s getting worse also because i pick now not only in my face: also on my legs, my hands and where something is to find... by the way i work on my nails since i have teeth i think and also this habit has become worse. it´s not enough to keep them short, now i also pick and bite the skin around my nails - and i never did that before.. so i´m acting like a "real" skin picker, and your stories sound very familiar to me... what i wanted to ask you now is, if anybody had also another problem (like in my case bulimia) before he/she startes skin picking. it´s obvious that there is a mental problem, but i already tried therapy and after stoping bulimia worked so well without professional help, it wasn´t a topic for me for a ling time... the question is: if i can stop picking: what´s coming next? and what is it, that want out so strongly? what does my mind want to tell me ... sorry for my bad english - hopefully it lasts to understand what i try to talk about ;)