Healing

[BallerinaGirl]

I have been a face picker for over five years, im 21 now and i realize that i have done ALOT of damage to myself (scars, missing school, taking off work, avoiding situations, lying, canceling plans) so while i do still pick i am trying VERY hard not to, i have finally told my family my problem because they were getting so concerned after seeing huge scabs forming on my face that even the best of makeup could not cover.
If you are like me maybe you do it after getting stressed or just out of boredom... i want to tell everyone out there about what has healed my scabs ... i haven't found a cure to stopping the picking but i have learned how to heal extremly fast so that if i do pick and im can't go out because my face is so messed up i have the option of healing myself fast.
What has really helped me is steaming my face after i have picked it and smothering on vitamin e oil... it may break you out more because the oil is so strong BUT it heals the skin super fast, this weekend i had a huge chunk of skin that i picked so i dried it out with benzol peroxide and it burned my entire face and my face was nearly black in color it was so burned... also growing fresh aloe and then putting pieces in the blender and refrigerating it is great to put on your face along with a combonation of honey and olive oil which was used in ancient times to heal wounds and honey speeds up healing because of the moisture and it pulls out impurities, ive also heard that honey is great for old scabs and indented scars, the darker the honey the more potent.
also neosporin makes something called scar patches i believe? they are large sticky adhesive patches for scars, they do well in speeding up the healing of closed scabs because they RETAIN moisture, ive always tried drying my face out because i thought that if my scabs dried faster i could peel them off and they would be gone, but healing a scab with moisture is actually the best thing for it, in two days your scabs will peel off and red skin will be left underneath that will in a couple weeks time return to normal color... also the sun plays a major part in my life, getting outside and getting at LEAST 10 minutes of fresh air and sun should be part of our lives everyday... i just wanted to write this because i have a horrible habit of picking my face then i am left with ugly huge bloody scabs on my face that turn dark because they are scabbing and i wanted to help other people that may not know what to do, if you have any questions please ask me because i would love to help, right now my face has no scabs or scars and i burned my whole face this weekend and it was scabbing over so bad that i couldn't go out and by monday i was fine:)
I hope everyone has a great week!! ;D

~I just wanted to add, running in the fresh air(or any exercise you enjoy) and drinking up to 8 glasses of water everyday combined with human contact(they found that having positive personal interaction everyday heals your body faster than medicine), laughing and positive thinking has also been proven to speed up healing up to 50%

[reflection]

Thanx for the advice- i wanna try the alore vera, honey and olive oil
refleciton

[hannah]

hey thanks i thought that this was a great website i found it really intresting. I thought i was the only one!but i am intigued to come across another who is just the same as me i often do it out of boredom .but then hate myself for doing it afterwards because i feel so ugly and i refuse to go out and as i have to go to school i get very stressed about it and often try to bunk off.It does make me feel physically sick at the thought of going to school with massive scabs on my face!im moving school next week and am so nervous on top of all the typical new school worries i have one scab on my face but it came off and im now left with a red mark whch is slightly crusty i dont know what to do as i need it gone for atleast wednesday do you have any idea as to what i can do?my self esteem drops so much when i have these and i want to feel confident for my first day at my new school. your help would be much apreciated!
thanks

[A]

hey,
i was quite confused at what you said heals what.
I REALLY need help, i think i picked my scab too early and the skin is all pink and dosnt seem to fade, i have applied olive oil and honey but cant stop checking to see if anything has happened and nothing appears to have changed.
please please help!!!!!!!!

[A]

thanx for the help, im sitting at home missing college and cant go out because this scabs so big but i suppose your ok so you dont need to help me

[Me2]

Hey,
Welcome to the board. One thing, it was inappropriate for you to blame us for the way your day is going. There isn't possibly time for all of us to respond to every email. You also only waited one day.

We all have problems here, and I am not sure exactly what to do with your scab. I really hope that it will start to heal soon. Have you tried keeping it covered with a bandaid or something, maybe with some vitamin E on it? That seems to work pretty well for me.

Good luck, A. I hope that you can work this out.

Fay

[A]

of course im really sorry its always easy to blame someone else for personal problems and its obvious your only here to help and nothing else i was just very low at the time.
My mum bought me some vitamin E yesterday and i have already seen improvement on bits of tha scab i have peeled off so i thank you very much for bringing this to my attention, should i actually put the vitamin E on the actual scab though? and also i keep getting mixed messages over the internet, does it actually speed up healing if the scab is covered with a gauze??
thank you again and sorry

[A]

hello again,
forget about my last question because i have been reading on the net that it is not good to actually have a scab, the wound should be kept covered so it can heal twice as fast with moisture for various reasons.
thanx anyway and i think you should inform people in future not to let their wounds to dry out

[Sophie]

Hi people, ive just started reading this and i want to say how HAPPY i am that im not the only face picker here. when all my friends use to complain about spots (little tiny red dots on there faces) i used to laugh because my 'spots' where huge great scabs on my face because i picked them. well anyway, back what i came to ask. im sitting at home right now, missing school because i have three huge scabs on my face that even make up wont dare to go near. and i was wondering weather anybody had any ideas, i hvaent got any spechially mediated things, just the usual kitchen ingrienetes so if anybody sould help i would be MORE than grateful xxxxx

[LiViNgDeAdGiRl]

well Im trying this Aloe/Olive Oil/ and Honey mask thing right now. Ill let you know how it looks in the morning. I usually just wash my face with Noxema triple action anti-bacterial face wash (in like a tube) with really warm water, and then take a hot wet washcloth and kinda like pat your face down with it. (If im going out that day/night, i'll rub off the scabs because they are soft enough to remove that way, and then ill try dry it with like tissue or something or the wash cloth if it dosnt stop bleeding right away, so the make up I put on dosnt look all scabby. Its not the best idea, but its the quickest fix I could come up with. ) If Im not going anywhere I try use an oatmeal/avacado mask from freemans or something, and then wash that off and if the wounds arnt bad, I'll use a peel off mask. Usually I end up rubbing either neosporin on the bad parts, or just use this antibacterial hand sanatizer stuff called Germ-X (which has vitamen E in it) to clean the wounds and then follow up with some nuetrogena on the spot treatment for the bumps that I havnt picked or cant pop and squeeze. I heard Desitine is really good for the wounds too. I use that sometimes too. Im trying right now to heal up. So I feel yah hunny. Just look around the site and check out all the different topics/threads. You can find some helpful advice and healing remedies in them. Good - Luck!

[Sophie]

ahh thankyall so much! ive just washed my face and am planning to put an olive oil/honey conncoction on there in a minute. fingers crossed. depressing stuff this skin. but do you wether it affects how fast the scab heals if u scrub it off? doesent slow it down or anything does it? xxxxx

[LiViNgDeAdGiRl]

SOmetimes but meh...if the scabs arnt there its easier to cover up the damage with the make up

[oni]

YOU ALL FUKING SUK! THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO USE A LINE CALLED CELLEX-C! ITS HYPER ACTIVE MOISTURE LOTIONS ARE THE BEST!

[bleh]

um...that was weird.

[LiViNgDeAdGiRl]

so you first use Vitamen E, then the Benzol peroxide and then the aloe? followed up by scar patches?