Antarctic Fox
- Date posted
- 6y
misslisagmisslisag
- Date posted
- 6y
It's hell, you can see all the damage you are actually doing to yourself whenever you look in the mirror. People think I'm on meth. I get nauseated sometimes seeing what I just did.
tngjazztngjazz
- Date posted
- 6y
I have struggled with trichitillomania for the better part of 15 years now. It’s a constant cycle of 1) uncontrollable urges to pull out my hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes; 2) guilt about it when bald spots appear; 3) resisting just long enough to allow it to grow back; and 4) falling into a pattern of compulsive behavior again. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to “quit” but I haven’t cracked my own personal code yet...
earthwermearthwerm
- Date posted
- 6y
I could compare it to a nervous tic, or a habit, but honestly compulsion is the best way to describe it. I just have to do it. I couldn't tell you why. But I have to, so i do.
matthiasmatthias
- Date posted
- 6y
A main compulsion of mine is picking at my fingers. Most of the time it’s when I’m anxious and a repetitive picking motion is a calming and soothing feeling. Then I go too far and they start to bleed then I spend a long time trying ”fix it” by cutting out or picking off the excess skin I tore up...which just makes it worse. It’s v embarrassing because I have just right ocd and everything about my perfectly curated presentation is f’d up with how ugly and scabbed my fingers are. Im a cellist and they get so bad sometimes that I can’t play. I recently remembered in a therapy appt that my mom picked her fingers throughout my childhood and I always hid my picking from her. I have removed sharp nail cutters/tweezers from my house and I’m working on sitting on my hands when I notice I’m anxiously picking at my hands. Hoping for a day soon when I work thru this particular compulsion but I’ve struggled with it my whole life ??♂️
OCDeannaOCDeanna
- Date posted
- 6y
Dermatillomania is very similar to trichitillomania except you have the uncontrolable urge to pick off your skin. There are many different reasons as to why people get the compulsion to pick, with me personally, I can't stand when my skin is very dry or when I get scabs from small cuts and bruises. I also hate pimples. I see those things as imperfections on my skin which makes me get the obsession that they need to be removed. If an obsession like this ever makes you feel on edge or anxious, fidget toys and stress balls really help with this kind if problem. It also keeps your hands occupied.
earthwermearthwerm
- Date posted
- 6y
That's a little too big a question, because it's like, a lot LOL. Can you narrow it down a little so I don't talk for a thousand years?
earthwermearthwerm
- Date posted
- 6y
also, it's tillo, not tilla, but u were close dermatillomania trichitillomania iirc
Daisyshaw1012Daisyshaw1012
- Date posted
- 6y
That is exactly what I go through, it has been so bad that I have bled so much. I hate picking my fingers but I like the feeling of tearing off the skin. I don’t know what to do to stop, because it has now been a habit for me to do it to control my bipolar.
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B4ll_Tongue26
- Date posted
- 22w
Skin picking
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.
Kammy
- Date posted
- 19w
This is draining
I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
Anonimus ME 🦋
- Date posted
- 14w
I need you people😞!
please i need someone to share experiences... - that a certain facial expression of a person to whom ocd is attached causes a lot of thoughts that are connected to that facial expression, and that the images in your head are very detailed, and that they have a sound, words, and that you have a feeling of some kind of crawling from the groin all over your body?
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