I’m almost there in breaking my skin picking obsession. It’s a team effort. And we’re doing beyond great.

@Kit Kat Chocolate Listening to the young lady made me want to cry. The physical and emotional pain that we suffer is finally being recognized and there’s now help for us. My prayers are sincerely there for you all. My Christian faith was also a major help in recovering.

@Anonymous Hi Anonymous! Aww, so glad to be able to support you, my brother in Christ. Praise the Lord ✝️ My fairy is also a major part of my life, and I’m grateful that there are other believers out there who understand 😎

@Anonymous *faith

@Anonymous I hope you will consider joining the online support group!

@Anonymous And just to help you out, you can find the online support group under the resources tab. 😊

@Kit Kat Chocolate Can you tell me how to join the group. I would like to very much

@Anonymous https://pickingme.org/resources/online-support-group.html

@Kit Kat Chocolate Sign up using the form :)

@Kit Kat Chocolate I’ll have to wait until 1/1/24 when get my social security check.

@Anonymous Ok! Pls keep me posted!

@Kit Kat Chocolate I did, thank you. Next Tuesday 4-5:30 pst. What zone are you in?

@Anonymous Great! See you next Tuesday (Dec 19), 7-8:30 pm EST ☺️

@Anonymous Please fill out this form if you haven’t. Just sharing it here for you. See ya tomorrow! 😊 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhs9beG89HjMAW7Cqs1bINwWW0Q8SlkVFtV7hOlt3zHCAbmQ/viewform

@Anonymous Hi! I hope we will meet tonight. I’m online at tonight’s picking me meeting! Are you?

@Anonymous I hope you had a good time tonight at the meeting. I hope you join the group chat and find the group to be a support on your journey!

@Kit Kat Chocolate Your fairy. How do you interact with her? Like an angel, perhaps?

@Munchkin1228 Hi! Just a friendly reminder that the next meeting is on January 2. Hope to see you then!

@myocdsux Keeping my hands busy with crocheting and wearing gloves. Medicine has also been a deterrent. Every time I start to pick I put medicine on the sores

@myocdsux Plus journaling. It became such a nuisance every time I picked, I had to journal. I had about 25 open sores. Down to four now. Most important of all is my therapist Kelli. 2x a week. She kept me on point.

@Anonymous Thank you for sharing. I'm going to try these tips myself 🙂 also starting therapy later this month

@myocdsux Are you a skin picker?

@Anonymous Yes, it's pretty bad

@myocdsux I hope you will consider joining the picking me community!

@Kit Kat Chocolate Yes I will, thank you for sharing ❤

@myocdsux Cool! The group is under resources on the site! 😊

@myocdsux @myocdsux https://pickingme.org/resources/online-support-group.html

@myocdsux Did you sign up yet? Just wondering. No worries if you havent. Next meeting is this Tuesday.

@Kit Kat Chocolate Yes I signed up, thank you. I plan on joining the next meeting 🙂

@myocdsux Great! See you on Dec 19 online! ☺️

@myocdsux @myocdsux Please fill out this form if you haven’t. Just sharing it here for you. See ya tomorrow! 😊 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhs9beG89HjMAW7Cqs1bINwWW0Q8SlkVFtV7hOlt3zHCAbmQ/viewform

@myocdsux @myocdsux Hi! I hope we will meet tonight. I’m online at tonight’s picking me meeting! Are you?

@Kit Kat Chocolate Yes I'm here. I have my camera turned off, just listening at the moment :) I will probably turn my camera on next time

@myocdsux Glad you are here! Yay! Looking forward to meeting you sometime in the new year.

@myocdsux I hope you had a good time tonight at the meeting. I hope you join the group chat and find the group to be a support on your journey!

@myocdsux Yes I will be joining the group. I had no idea how many people suffer from our skin picking Learned some new tools of the trade, so to say.

@myocdsux Hi! Just a friendly reminder that the next meeting is on January 2. Hope to meet you then!

@Anonymous The medicines prescribed are Mupirocin ointment usp 2% an antibiotic which really helps with open sores. And hydrocortisone 2.5% which soothes and helps with itching. I saturate sores with both. It keeps the scabs soft. The joy in our habit is how good it feels to pick a juicy scab. It’s soothing and satisfying for us to pick.

There's an email you get when you join the PickingMe foundation with a Zoom link, usually gets sent on Monday!