- Username
- feralcaroll
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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 :/
@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
@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.
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!!
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?
Hi everyone, This all might be a little tmi, but I just ask that you be respectful in what I’m sharing. I’m having a tough time getting over compulsions of telling on myself. I rack my brain about things that I should feel guilty about, and then I tell my sister on myself, and feel better for just a bit, until I can find something else to feel guilty about. I recently have felt guilty about a habit of picking my nose and eating it. This might sound really gross, but it’s become just a habit and now that I realize I’m doing it, I feel incredibly guilty about it. I’m trying my BEST to not tell on myself for this one, because I am trying to break the compulsion of telling on myself. I think I can get past it, but I still am feeling incredible guilt over it. Does anyone else feel like they have to compulsively tell on themselves?
For anyone who has OCD related disorders like dermatillamania or trichotillamania (I'm sreally sorry if I'm butchering those names) what is it like?
Is anyone else’s primary compulsion googling, reading articles, taking quizzes, etc? Any tips on how to stop/limit these urges to engage in compulsion?
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