I am dumbfounded-yet liberated...

[Happyscrappinmomma]

I was up late last night and couldn't sleep. I was actually looking for some support on depression...when I came across information on Compulsive Skin Picking. OH MY GOSH!! I have had a problem with this since I was young--it would go away and resurface, go away then for the last 10 years it has just gotten increasingly worse! I thought I just had a terrible habit that I couldn't stop! TO know that it actually has a name and other people suffer from it..in a funny way is liberating..I mean I can actually talk to people that understand what I am going through, and not be embarassed by it.
Y'all may think I am weird for feeling this way, but for the first time in a very very long time...I think that I can actually learn to stop...I almost feel like I can breathe again..wow.
ON my own I have started learning how to keep myself from destroying my face, but now it has moved to the mosquito or chigger bites on my legs.
I am thankful and grateful to God that he led me to find out about this and this place.

[alex21 in cali]

hi =) your post is old. but I hope you know by now that almost all of us experienced pretty much the exact same feelings when we found out CSP was a legitimate problem, and we weren't alone!!!! I hope yu are having success in your recovery!
xo
alex

[bluesonora]

i know how u feel. i felt like it was just me!!
we are all very sensitive people who just have a problem like alcohocs. we r not mad or demented. we r all capable of stopping this and beiond at peace with ourselves.
good luck