The power of group effort

[sos]

Great work Moonshadow... :)I hope everyone else is doing ok, I'm doing great since Tuesday May 4th...this day 3 of 3rd ZT for me...I know it's not 3 strikes and your out, because I would have been out along time ago. I have a busy weekend coming up...My dad's b-day is on Mother's day how funny my mom has passed on though... :'(take care all)
love & kisses,
sos

[moonshadow]

Hi you sweeties!
I've missed you! I haven't even had time to write here. Bahhh! I think I'm going insane with so much work to do. Today I had a blackout, I was doing my work and then I just had to stop, I didn't know where I was and what I was doing. I just broke down in tears. Oh God, I need to rest! I've been working too much...
Then I went for a walk to distract myself and there I was crying in the middle of the street, I felt so embarassed. Stupid chick!
At least the good news is that I'm still behaving well in terms of picking. I haven't picked for more than a week. And yeah tomorrow is the wedding and I will go with a normal skin like the other people. I don't even need make-up, I'll just put some, because it's a wedding, but i don't need it to conceal, 'cause I don't have antything to conceal. My goal was not to pick for the wedding but I'll try to go on, as the results, just in two pick-free weeks were amazing!!!
Girls it is worth making the effort not to pick! Please try it! I assure you won't regret it!
Let's do it! OK?
Love you all! You are the ones who give me strength to carry on!!
Thanks a lot!
Take care sweeties!!

[sioned]

Hi Moonshadow,

I'm so happy for you that you managed to keep your face clear for the wedding - I hope you have a fantastic day!
I have had the same incentive recently (by the end of May I'll have been to 4 weddings in 2 months!)
Anyway, the last one was my cousins wedding and as all my family and lots of friends would be there I was desperate not to look a total mess!
I was semi-successful - at least enough that I felt happy on the day. Unfortunately I don't think a time where I don't need to use concealer is anytime soon as I have too many scars, but I am just happy if I don't have huge holes or scabs all over my face.

Anyway - I just wanted to say how happy I am for you and also just to tell you to be careful after the wedding. By this I mean that two days after my cousins wedding I picked my face to shreds again and it was so devastating after the hard work of the previous weeks trying not too pick. I would hate for this to happen to you, so just be aware that you might be more susceptible to picking in the next few days - so you can hopefully stop before you start, so to speak!

Hope you had a fab day
Sioned xxx

[reformedpicker]

Moonie-
I am so proud of you and excited for you- you did it! I can't wait to hear all about the wedding and I hope you can enjoy it since you don't have to be distracted with worrying about yout face- what a wonderful feeling!

I'm inspired- I'm going to commit to giving my full effort so I can have the same success you have had- Dandelion are you up for it?! I hope so- we need to catch up with Moonie and Sos!

Can't wait to hear about the weekend
Love
RP

[dandelion]

well to tell you the truth i havnt been doing to well i picked like crazy one night but im doing better now and i think im finally ready to take this seriously and go pick free so today is my official day that i am starting zt (i hope)
How are all you guy's doing? i hope your doing well,
dandelion

[moonshadow]

Hi everybody
Sorry for being absent for such a long time. Yeah the wedding was really nice. This time I didn't feel I was the ugliest girl in the party. I felt I was just another girl, a normal girl with a normal skin. It made me feel so good. And this week I've been so busy again that I don't even have time to pick. Eh eh!
I think I'm almost 2 weeks without hurting myself. Of course that sometimes I squeeze, not too aggressively, some little zits, but never in my face. It feels so good waking up and seeing myself in the mirror with a normal skin. You all, make an effort, please, try it, it's so good being pickless. I feel so happy, and even the usual problems that we have to face everyday, become irrelevant and easy to solve.
Hope you are all doing well.
Kissies
Moonie

[reformedpicker]

Hi Moonie- glad you are doing so great! I've been surprisingly good myself and it does feel great! I was out of town for a few days, so haven't been around either- will try to write more later!

[sos]

Hi to All,

I'm bad from the week from hell with my picking. It was the last week in May. I'm almost totally healed and I want to start over. I really need to stop saying I'm never going to pick again. It's to much pressure. I'm going to say each day I will not hurt myself today, I love Christine and she's been hurt enough for her lifetime.
Hope all is well with RP, Moonie, Moonshadow, Dandelion and anyone I have missed that is trying to heal with GROUP EFFORT!!!!!!
Love,
SOS

[dandelion]

Hey sos, im glad to here your doing a little better now, ive been going up and down, i havnt been doing any serious picking but when im not wearing any makeup around the house and i look in the mirror and see the permanent damage i have done i get really depressed. I have red blotchy skin and even if i was completely pick free would still need to apply makeup...i go on a camping weekend with my friends in July and its really sad to know that i wont be able to put my face under the water when we swim so my makeup stays on....i love to swim.....sos, im going to try and do what you said and not tell myself im never going to pick again but just do it day by day, because the other way is obviously not working....i hope you and everybody else is doing well
luv ya guys,
dandelion