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Post by anon,irresp. on Nov 16, 2003 11:21:12 GMT -5
best way prevent touching healing sore?
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Post by Carree on Nov 17, 2003 9:51:38 GMT -5
Wish I had to the answer to that question!
I can't leave them alone......
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luna
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Post by luna on Nov 29, 2003 12:55:51 GMT -5
Hi, I'm Luna. I have been picking myself for 20 years, and I have tried almost everything you could imagine to not pick, but I have also become an absolute expert in disguising the sores, and finding ways to distract myself from them. Most of my spots, as I call them ( they always start out as spots )are on my face,so I am a past master of make-up; the best concealers I have found are Dermablend stage-make-up in a stout tub, costs around $20-30 in theatre shops, clinique concealer in a little pale-green tube,about $15, and a real cheap under-eye concealer from Chicogo, but I do not know if it is available in US.The right concealer will stop U wanting to pick;if it is a nice colour, stays on and blends well and it feels nice, it will really help.The main reason for wanting to pick is that the feeling of a spot on ones skin is a very intense and unpleasant sensation, and it is very difficult to forget about it or not think about it because you are constantly aware of it. Sometimes the feeling of a big red scab is just better than the feeling of a horrible throbbing ,vague yellow sensation..Some things I have tried overnight, to soothe and heal after a picking session,which work are old-fashioned white minty toothpaste,cheap brands are best, and a Dead-Sea salt lotion by Zarqa, made in Israel, it is very white and like a runny face mask, goes hard overnight and heals. Also a plaster by Hansaplast which is like a little white opaque patch surrounded by a clear curved plaster which sticks on like a second skin, so unless someone was observing you very closely,you can only see the little patch.They can stay on for about 3 days,they are waterproof,and when you take them off, your skin will have practically healed. If your wound is on your back, or somewhere under your clothes, you can just run through a few one after the other until you have healed.You can also slap one on your face if you have a really persistent face-wound situation (I am recovering from a horrible big sore,which began life as a fairly modest if deep-rooted spot.Luckily it was on my jawline, so it was quite easy to hide.) If you are in the house, and you know you will be in from say, 4pm until 8am the following morning, put the plaster on immediately, as soon as you're home,wash your face and put one on, and the plaster has some kind of healing gel in it, and it is very soothing so you don't want to keep touching your face, and if you do, the plaster feels quite smoothe and cool, and it doesn't curl up at the corners, or look skanky.The sore I just mentioned was on my face since August 27th, and it is just in the final recovery period, no flakes, not tender, and the plasters were a desperate attempt to sort it out, as I haven't had such a fierce wound for a while, my scars are starting to fade a bit....
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Post by Carree on Dec 1, 2003 15:51:56 GMT -5
Thanks Luna for the info.....
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Post by tryingreallyhard on Dec 4, 2003 22:14:34 GMT -5
Maybe you could try my tip to put small (uninflated) balloons on your fingertips. I just posted it to the tips for quitting section if you want to read more.
Hope it helps you out (and me too)!
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Post by Heather on Dec 24, 2003 0:19:07 GMT -5
If the sores are on your body in a place covered by clothing, buy some of those giant "advanced healing" bandaids. I like them because you can keep them on for days. Also, you cant reach underneath them like regular bandaids, so when you go to touch at the bandaid, all you feel is smoothness. Just slap it on and leave it there for as many days as you can stand. By the time you pull it off, your skin will probably be totally healed.
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Post by musician on Jan 2, 2004 11:35:41 GMT -5
I wish I knew how, too...
The biggest thing that has helped me the past couple days, as I've been trying not to pick (successfully, so far), is to make myself conscious of my actions. This includes not only the incipient pick, but also running my fingers along my skin, seeking out bumps or loose edges, or looking in the mirror just to inspect a scab. If I can stop these behaviors that lead up to picking, I figure the picking will be easier to stop, and the wounds will heal of their own accord.
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Post by slw on Jan 7, 2004 3:24:19 GMT -5
I am glad to find this board....and I thought I was the only one who does this stuff.
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Post by scarreddaisy on Jan 8, 2004 2:43:04 GMT -5
the best way to prevent touching a healing sore... difficult yes, but not impossible.. lately i have gouged the hell otu of my back neck and scalp.. there are sores galore to pick at... I wore fake nails and though I couldnt pick at scabs very well it did not stop me from trying.. I found that I needed to do soemthing constructive with my hands.. so I started crocheting.. I haven't really had a chance to since I had been so busy with school, but I have had a month off and have had a pick fest like no other.. I think the embarrassment of having scabs on my face at school kept me from picking at my face which now seems to be a war zone.. anyway, I have been corcheting and when I get tired of that I grab a video game or read using one hand to hold the book and the other to trace the line that I am reading.. keeping those hands busy and constantly stimulated... it feels good to pick.. i'll admit it... I like goign after it and once my hand gets into that motion it is hard to resist until I have gouged or picked something off of my face...
I have started to think of my hands as having brains of their own, conjuring up their own wants and desires.. fortunately my body is a democracy and the desires have to go through the senate ( brain) and congress (common sense) before any action is excuted... I think what we all have isa faulty democracy... 2/3 of the vote is coming from the hands... the desires.. we need to reestablish what goes and what doesn't... and the first way to do that is to make sure that those hands stay in line and behave themselves...
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Post by OboeThumb on Jan 10, 2004 15:14:38 GMT -5
Luna, that Hansaplast thing sounds great -- where do you get it?
And thanks!
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Post by downtimeheals on Jan 22, 2004 1:55:31 GMT -5
Hi...great tips, everybody! I use Proactiv repairing lotion overnight after a "picking session" (I love their cleanser as well) and often dab Aubrey Organics "amino derm gel" on especially tender spots. It's a very cooling, soothing gel that dries almost invisible. I also always have a stash of those little round, "spot-sized" bandaids (cloth is nicer than latex); they hide & protect the wound from my prying fingers and eyes. I think it's always worth experimenting with bandaids to protect something that's healing--to help you pretend that it doesn't exist until it's practically healed anyway  I also have on hand several mud-type face masks...I like putting splotches of Queen Helene's Mint Juleppe mask over spots that are bugging me when I'm hanging out around the house. |
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