Post by Hope on Apr 16, 2003 2:47:07 GMT -5
;)Hey everyone! I have been reading all youre posts and finally decided to join in. I have been picking at my face for a good ten years now...since i was 13. I remember the first time i did it...I had my first zit on my nose. I decided to pop it cause i thought it looked icky. To my surprise when i squeezed it, white stuff came out not only out of the zit but out of the pores in the surrounding area. I remeber thinking i was some kind of freak that had weird stuff in the skin of her nose...i thought i was abnormal. I actually tricked my little brother into squeesing his nose to see if the same thing would happen. Surely enough it did..and so here began my picking...as simply and as innocently as that...i tried to make it happen again. it fascinated me...then i got more zits..popped them too and so on and so on...its so weird when you think that there was a time in youre life when you didn't do this..never thought of it...didn't even know you could do it. I miss thoses days.
ANYWAYS!
Im going off subject..what i really wanted to share today was something that has helped me so so sooooo much with the picking and the anxiety caused by it (or that is causing it). One word:
EXERCICE! I jog about 40 minutes to an hour now...at least 3 times a week. It does wonders for the way I feel. I lightens up youre mood everytime and gives youre whole body a fresh clean feel..like all the toxins and the bad feelings and thoughts have been sweated out. Its really amazing. After a run I will never ever pick..i just don't feel the need..at all. It gives me the release i get from picking without all the guilt and of course red marks and scabs! I strongly suggest it to you all. Its not a magical cure but it will improve the situation so much i garantee it! It makes sense though...picking is a mental disorder...we engage in it to escape reality, release tension or out of pure habit. Exercising gives you that same release...but 10 times better..and helps breaking the pattern...feeling stressed? don't pick, go for a run!
Its not easy, i tell you. You have to push youreself hard enough to exert youreself...to really get thoses endorphins pumping. And sometimes the thought of going outside in the cold and working really hard, puffing away seems not as inviting as sitting nice and comfy on the bathroom sink and picking away. But youre picking away youre life...thats what i'm slowly starting to realise. We pick time off our lives...I say lets all go outside and run (or walk) towards a better (pick free) future! God, i'm getting poetic now!
Its late i guess. I can't sleep tonight. Good luck!
Later!
Hope.
xoxoxoxoxoxox
ANYWAYS!
Im going off subject..what i really wanted to share today was something that has helped me so so sooooo much with the picking and the anxiety caused by it (or that is causing it). One word:
EXERCICE! I jog about 40 minutes to an hour now...at least 3 times a week. It does wonders for the way I feel. I lightens up youre mood everytime and gives youre whole body a fresh clean feel..like all the toxins and the bad feelings and thoughts have been sweated out. Its really amazing. After a run I will never ever pick..i just don't feel the need..at all. It gives me the release i get from picking without all the guilt and of course red marks and scabs! I strongly suggest it to you all. Its not a magical cure but it will improve the situation so much i garantee it! It makes sense though...picking is a mental disorder...we engage in it to escape reality, release tension or out of pure habit. Exercising gives you that same release...but 10 times better..and helps breaking the pattern...feeling stressed? don't pick, go for a run!
Its not easy, i tell you. You have to push youreself hard enough to exert youreself...to really get thoses endorphins pumping. And sometimes the thought of going outside in the cold and working really hard, puffing away seems not as inviting as sitting nice and comfy on the bathroom sink and picking away. But youre picking away youre life...thats what i'm slowly starting to realise. We pick time off our lives...I say lets all go outside and run (or walk) towards a better (pick free) future! God, i'm getting poetic now!
Its late i guess. I can't sleep tonight. Good luck!
Later!
Hope.
xoxoxoxoxoxox
