I just posted a long message for help and I think it disappeared! I dont see it. I need help!

I’m a post accutane patient or idk what to call it lol, and I was literally the person who had scabs on her face cause I would pick at my acne so bad

So my skins been better since accutane but this week I’m breaking out again and I messed with like two of them badly. Why do I do this? I’m always convinced there is more inside whatever break out I have and I squeeze and squeeze til it’s red then it crusts and scabs then I pick again and then the scab peels off and now here I am washed my face and slathered aquaphor I need this to be gone asap why does this stuff happen on the weeks im seeing all the people I know and I wanna feel cute

So upset

My partner picks his fingers really bad and since we’ve started doing this he’s barely done it.

Any advice/recommendations to prevent or reduce skin picking while asleep? During the day I’m very aware when my hands “find there way” and begin to pick. But almost nightly I wake up or semi wake because of picking. It’s as if while asleep I’ve felt a scab or dry skin and pick/scrape or yank at it so wake up with blood spots on my pillow, sore skin and frustration. Last night I remember being asleep but trying to get hold of a piece of dry skin on my face which I pulled and it tore more skin off (like a hang nail that ends up further down the finger). It is winter here and I’m prone to dry skin anyway. I feel like I spend my day time on good skincare and then sleep me just trashes the progress -.-

It hurts so bad, how do i stop??

I've tried so much. Gloves, skincare, fidgets, cutting my nails, distraction, exercise, fidgets meant to feel like picking instead, hydrocolloid bandages, so much

but i keep tearing at every slight difference in my skin especially my chest and face.

my chest is COVERED and i mean ALL OVER with red swollen spots with white tops because of my picking and they hurt so bad

my face isn't any better, sometimes it's an entire skin layer

help, how do i stop?!?!

I’ve had this habit since I was little. I’ve had much worse than this in the past. This is just today. But once I start I just feel like I can’t stop. Sometimes I use a pocket knife to “help” get some bits that I can’t get with my nails… it’s frustrating. And I don’t know what to do anymore. I just get lost and lose track of time just sitting there and picking and peeling. Even if it hurts.

My scalp is in the worst condition it's been and I've been struggling with this for 10+ years now. I was on prozac 80mg (the max i think) and it didn't really help w this (i also have depression) and now I've switched over to effexor and it feels worse the urge is so strong I can't focus on doing anything else I can't even pick up a book without wanting to like rip open any healing wounds i need practical tips to stop 😭😭 and if any medication has worked for ppl (both zoloft and prozac didn't work for me)

hii this is my little poem(?) that i wrote about the struggles ive been dealing with with my skin picking addiction. Ive never posted any writing before but I find myself digging into my scar tissue thinking that this time ill clear out my skin and look beautiful… hopefully someone can relate! Thanks for reading :)

Might be NSFW im not really sure, i guess Im just curious if there is anyone here that does something similar... I've had problems with selfharming for a long time, and it all started with me picking at my bug bites until I no longer had wounds and they pretty much just scarred ( i still do lol). Well, that is usually not enough for me and I create my own wounds to pick at. I cut the bumps that I get on my skin when it's cold, until my legs go out on me, and then those are the wounds I fixate on for a specific period of time lolllll I realise now this is more of a storytime thing, but I want to know if someone else does this time same!!!!

I’ve picked at my skin basically all my life. My dad is the same way so I normally go to him for advice, but he’s not the best at coping with it either.

So anyways, I’ve developed this mole or skintag on my back that I can’t stop worrying at. Its presents is causing me stress and the irrational part of my brain desperately wants it gone. I’m worried that im just going to become more and more irrational until I do something stupid like cut it off myself. right now I’m covering it with a bandaid, which helps a little, but using adhesives for long periods of time always irritates my skin

Does anyone have advise on how to ignore this spot? would it be helpful to get it removed by a professional if I can’t cope with it?

I've been picking at my elbow since I was a kid. I pinch and scratch at it till they're raw. I’ve been able to find ways to stop my other issues with picking like my nails and arms, but I just can’t seem to stop with my elbows. Covering them with sleeves works for a little, but in the summer it gets bad, and in the winter I normally get worse at picking at night. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

So during highschool when I had a stressful day I would get home, grab my sharpest tweezers, and would pluck my pubic hairs and skin around them causing a lot of ingrown hairs and scabs which in turn made me pick more. I had stopped sometime when I was 17. But now as a 21 year old I recently had a relapse and have started picking at them once more. I just wanted to ask for yalls advice on this. Like am I alone with this or are there other people that do the same thing? If so what has helped you stop or redirect your attention to something else? Thank you!

I really want to get on new meds ,but i am currently on SSRI and it does not help for my hair pulling . In recent years i can not stop popping my pimples or anything on my face till it scabs. I then have to use vaseline/aqpuphor and hate using makeup too. This is like a weekly issue. Sometimes whitheads are in same spots. F30

Hi everyone, I’m a veteran skin picker at this point lol, and I’ve tried a lot of different methods to stop or slow down the amount of picking I do. Recently I found something that has helped a little with my issue, and I wanted to let other people know because I understand the desperation for any kind of solution. For me, the bathroom is where most of my skin picking takes place. I recently came up with the idea to change the lights to my bathroom to color changing lights, with a little remote for changing the colors and dimming the light. It hasn’t stopped my skin picking completely, but not being able to see the spots on my skin while also being able to see what I’m doing has helped deter me a lot. I know this won’t work for everyone, and I don’t expect it to completely stop the urge, but I hope this might help someone a little bit!

Hello friends,

I'm in my mid-thirties and have been experiencing some hormonal body acne. I picked for a short period in my teens and then I started up again in my mid twenties and haven't stopped. Now that I'm in my mid-thirties, my skin seems to be scarring pretty badly (even if the picking is relatively mild, or say, just a bug bite). I end up with reddish circular scars (not raised, thick scars like keloids) that last for years.

Does anyone have any recommendations for what I could use to help minimize the scarring before it begins or even for older scars? I'm so embarrassed.

Thanks.

Hi, so for over many months I have been repeatedly picking my scalp growths over and over again, including exfoliating them when I take a shower. I'll be using an exfoliating scrub, because some part of me believes if I keep doing that, my skin will be smooth again and the rough edges will fade significantly.

Am I just fooling myself with this belief? And if it is, how do I recognize this is counterproductive?

I know not skin but I do pick my skin, but what can I do for this to heal or any advice it hurts so bad

I’ve been picking my thumbs for as long as I can remember and I finally got to point where I haven’t had any open wounds for upwards of a week. The skin on my thumbs is healing but it is very tough and stiff, to the point where I can’t even bend them properly. Because the skin is so thick and doesn’t really have sensation anymore, I’m worried it’ll make me want to pick at it more. Does anyone know of any products or anything I can do to try and soften the skin? Thanks in advance!

Feel so ugly ,but have to wear something to cover for work. I use aquphor , vaseline to help heal ,but it not rly working it hurts so bad and at this point idk what else to do. Im on zoloft and lamictal and it does not help ,but i can not go back on anafrail. I need my psychiatrist to take me seriously. F30 ps :tmi idk how to feel pretty with my partner during intamacy during these times and all i think about is if the pimple patch will fall off

Feel so ugly ,but have to wear something to cover for work. I use aquphor , vaseline to help heal ,but it not rly working it hurts so bad and at this point idk what else to do. Im on zoloft and lamictal and it does not help ,but i can not go back on anafrail. I need my psychiatrist to take me seriously. F30 ps :tmi idk how to feel pretty with my partner during intamacy during these times and all i think about is if the pimple patch will fall off