KP Arm pickers?

Hi there. So good to know that there are other people out there who have the same problem as me. I feel that i have to pick at the KP on my arms and on the tops of my legs even though KP is a normal condition that quite a lot of the population have and obviously have no problem with!!!!!! Only thing i heard was to moisturise the KP alot to make it improve but don't think there is a cure for it. I started picking my face from about 14 but could be before then which started on my face but over the years has moved down to include my arms chest, tops of legs. I did have cognitive b/therapy but not sure it worked that well although it was just nice talking to someone about it!! I don't pick my face as much as i did years ago and tend to do my arms the most. feel as though this whole skin picking/spots controls my life and I hate it. So nice to know i am not alone on this site. Also the typing stops me from picking!!!!!! Tend to pick at night time when alone - I even have the gloves but they are still in the wrapper in drawer and have been for ages!!! Should really use them!!! Any advice on clearing scarring would be helpful. Lets all help each other on here by sharing our thoughts. xx

What is kp?

AHHHH I am so relieved to know that someone else suffers from this! I will sit in front of the window with my arm tilted too see the bumps and pick for hours.... sometimes It's really bad!!! I just can't leave the "bumps" it seems so gross to leave that in my skin. Anyone out there used a product that really works to clear up KP???

Hi there....umm...after 40 years..I think I am coming to terms with being a "picker"...after going to get a facial and the facialist asking me if I was a "picker"..and I bluntly said yes...I aslo say that show about obsessive compulsive picking...I don't think I am that bad...I don't attack my face as much...but more my arms and sometimes my legs...that way I can hide it. I do it under stress as well as.....those bumps drive me nuts....it remind me of being dirty and it has to come out...I sometimes can hear the stuff come out..uggh..gross...I don't like bumps, mounds, etc....but once it's picked..of course the bump gets bigger and it has to be taken off.....and being ITP...a slow bleeder doesn't help either...I don't heal as well as others... it's summer and now I can't hide my picking...oh, of course I say...it's excema....but it isn't....I've been a picker all my life....it only escalated when I started getting pimples ..and then when I'm under stress and have low self image of myself I wish it would all go away....I guess it's not as bad as other disorders or addictions...but sometimes it can really make you want to stay in and not get out....I"ve gotten to the part wehre I just dont' care what people think and I don't care what I look like..but I do care now and want to change my thinking and get better.

yep i do this aswell, its how my picking problem started 11 years ago i noticed my brother picking the little bumps on his elbow and i picked up on the habit, except i seemed to have more bumps than he did and i had no control i will pick every single bump i could find. i also use different lighting to find smaller bumps, for example i sit by my bedroom window in the evening when the sun is low so i can see more. i just hate the feel of them and squeezing them seems so rewarding when the little white blob comes out. i find st ives blemish control scrub helps reduce the appearence of them, sun exposesure and bio oil helps reduce scarring

would a fellow kp arm picker like to be my buddy? i want to stop picking and popping the kp. since i had my baby 8 months ago it has spread to other parts of my body, and i carnt hide it any longer. i think if i there is two of us we can encourage and help each other as i havent found anyone with this problem in person, this might work and we can stop together. i promise to be honest i will tell you if i do pick, but i will try really hard not pick or pop. well i wouldnt want to let my buddy down would i?

Hi there, I'm 24 and started picking the skin on my arms and legs when I was 9. I've tried to give up in the past but the stress of giving up only seemed to make it worse! Ive tried loads of products - moisturising, exfoliating - to improve the texture of my skin, but I believe that even if the skin improves, I will always find something because it's in my nature to pick my skin, blemished or not. I also use needles to get at tough ones or ingrown hairs, once I have a needle in my hand though it's like I go on a rampage on my skin! It's taken me years to even realise and I have finally thrown all my needles away - that was a scary but exciting day! It might mean that I sometimes make a mess of my skin with my fingernails, but it's for the best. I've also started keeping a record. I used to keep a record of how long I picked for, but that only spelled out how out of control I was and got me down, again making the situation worse. So now I keep a record of every time I resist picking. It's a bit childish but I give myself a shiny sticker every time I manage to resist or to stop, and I rate how I did during the day by the size of the sticker! The main thing is it's a positive record and I'm finding it's helping cos for the first time I see my picking in the positive light of giving up and reducing it, not the negative light of I'm still doing it. Another trick I use is to say to myself "wait 15 minutes" and check my watch, promising myself I can pick in 15 minutes. When I can do this it really works, cos in 15 minutes I've usually found something else to do by then! I've also finally come to accept that this is a very slow road to recovery and that's completely ok, and that I'll probably be trying to resist the urges forever, but just think how much easier it's gonna get. This habit got progressively worse over a period of years, well it can improve too! Thanks for reading, this feels great to share my experience with complete strangers as Ive only ever told my boyfriend, and I hope maybe my methods might help someone else to cope.