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driving me insane!
i haven't picked for 6 hrs. It's the longest i've gone in a very long time. But as i'm sitting here all i can do is think about it in my mind and i can picture all the places that i want to pick in my head. I feel very shaky and weird. Does anyone else expierence this?
February 20, 2012
When i think about not picking or try not to pick is usually the times when i feel i need to pick the most
February 20, 2012
I agree and feel the same way. I know exactly where I want to pick, what the area looks like right now, etc. it drives me crazy! Right now I have three spots on my face damaged so badly I am wearing those circle dot bandaides to cover them. Even if avoid mirror if uncovered I go crazy. I know I am destroying myself but it is still so hard and seems impossible to stop. I am so ashamed. I can't believe I would rather walk around with bandaides on my face then, well not rather, it's the only way I am strong enough now. Occupy hands, my brother said to finger paint, or make meatballs, that way your hands are covered in Raw meat and won't dare touch face. My psychiatrist suggested bubble wrap, which des help. Then it's how much of that can people around you take. My boyfriend begs for a rest period with the sound of the bubble wrap. I need to know now what to put on my face to heal these areas with mimnimal scarring now.?
February 21, 2012
i was trying to write a paper but got so distracted by my fingers that I started looking online for information about my finger picking. I've picked for hours at a time and absolutly destroyed my fingers around my cuticles. I stopped for awhile, I don't know if I was less stressed or what it was, but lately it has been terrible. My boyfriend noticed me doing it the other day and asked me what was on my mind, why was I picking. He seems to know it ties into something psychological. Its so embaressing but I can't seem to stop, even a little girl I mentor notices my fingers and asks about them. I try to use band-aids when its really distracting and keeping my from being productive, but then all I can think about is my rough skin under the band-aid adn picking the band-aid off. i've never commented in a forum before, but i don't know anyone else who deals with this, and it seems really encouraging to talk to others who understand and have the same struggle
February 21, 2012
i was trying to write a paper but got so distracted by my fingers that I started looking online for information about my finger picking. I've picked for hours at a time and absolutly destroyed my fingers around my cuticles. I stopped for awhile, I don't know if I was less stressed or what it was, but lately it has been terrible. My boyfriend noticed me doing it the other day and asked me what was on my mind, why was I picking. He seems to know it ties into something psychological. Its so embaressing but I can't seem to stop, even a little girl I mentor notices my fingers and asks about them. I try to use band-aids when its really distracting and keeping my from being productive, but then all I can think about is my rough skin under the band-aid adn picking the band-aid off. i've never commented in a forum before, but i don't know anyone else who deals with this, and it seems really encouraging to talk to others who understand and have the same struggle