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i’ve struggles with dermatillomania (skin picking disorder) for years now, i get the same urges and it does help me stop cutting but at the cost of scars and infected wounds :/
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@ruby.j do you ever try to manage the skin picking with other means of curbing the urge? I want to find a nondestructive release
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@feralcaroll i’ve tried many things to do that give a similar feel, such as painting on my skin and peeling it off, peeling off glue from my skin, and other things like that. i’ve also tried fidget toys. they have all somewhat helped, but the urge specifically for skin picking is always there, and unfortunately i have never been able to completely stop, just minimize how much i do it.
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I have a similar disorder (trichotillomania) and I’ve found that the most helpful thing is to try to maintain full consciousness if I have the urge. make sure I recognize why I feel like I have to pull a hair out and sometimes wait a couple seconds to resist. Keep practicing that and make the waiting period for picking longer and longer and then try to not pick it at all. Also for some reason, N-acetyl cystine helps!!
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Wow, that’s a good question? Well, first of all; Yes, I’m expiring the same. Actually exactly the same. I think that for me it all started as dermatillomania and then evolved to cutting.. every time I’m exhausted, anxious, sad, numb and so on the urge rises.. But with my therapist I’ve been experiencing with different methods: - Holding a icecube - That didn’t work for me. - Squeezing a rough rock - Sometimes that helps! - NADA or acupuncture - That one does the trick! Basically (for me!!) I need to stimulate my senses - Anything I can feel/put on my skin... And my therapist tells me that breaking point is to NOT penetrate the skin. That is the point of no return?
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I’ve been feeling the urge to avoid intimacy or purposefully engage (for reassurance that I won’t give into a compulsion) because of intrusive thoughts and fear that I’ll “check/test” my reactions. My OCD is making me so scared that I’ll purposefully think of a child and try to see if I like it. It’s so complicated but I guess I’m mentally checking if I would mentally check during intimacy. I’ve even envisioned myself checking and it’s making me so nauseous. I know it’s a compulsion like any other but the sound of “touching yourself to the thought of a child” sounds atrocious and vile. I’m terrified I’ll automatically start checking next time I am being intimate. I truly feel so worried. If anyone has gone through something similar, I’d appreciate hearing your experience. Or if anyone has any advice?
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I think I might have dermatillomania. I am not self diagnosing. I get skin picking so bad that my whole back is covered in sores, there's at least 40 of them. I also pick at my head horribly I seriously cannot stop either. I have open sores all over my head and pick and pick and just can never stop. Sometimes I don't notice, and I'm always looking for a spot to pick at. I looked at all the symptoms and ik it runs with ocd. Whenever I get anxious my skin picking becomes very severe. Whenever I wake up I pick at my head too. I seriously don't know how to stop picking and I'm trying to get a diagnostic for dermillomania. I also have started to pick at my nose horribly. I have these blackhesd removers and I keep using them constantly on my face, everytime I'm home from school I use them on my nose and pick at everything on my face.
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Does anyone else struggle with this? I get a sense of dread and then I feel like the need to find the answer. For me it’s about like sexual reproduction or like some other taboo topic. Especially anything reproductive related to children or pets. I feel so awful after researching. I don’t know if the compulsion is to research or to ruminate about my intentions after researching. I have a hard time understanding why this happens I’m assuming it a question of morality? Like “what does this say about me if I wondered this and looked into it?” Does anyone relate to this?
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