Hand picking....Hypnosis?

[Robot guy]

So I've decided that I have to stop...
It started with a cut I got on my thumb when I was 7, that's when I realized that I could pick the caloused skin off when it healed. Now I'm 30, and when I get nervous, or when the skin gets ripe (the callous is big and unfeeling) time to pick it off... I just am so tired of ocassionally hitting the blood level (ya'll know what I'm talking about, yes?)
So I'm thinking about hypnosis. This only affects my hands, and being that I use my hands for building robots, and playing music, the callouses grow at an alarming rate. Anybody try hypnosis for this?
When I've tried to stop, the skin grows so fast that I can't even feel some parts of my hands, not to mention how fucking gross it is when I get out of the shower or bath.
This is my only bad habit, and I want to ditch it for the new year....
Thanks fellow pickers.........

[anonirresp]

robot guy, have you ever gone to a dermatologist for your callous problem? if you haven't i suggest you should. they may be able to prescribe a medicated type of lotion, or some type of regimen of lotion at night with gloves to soften your hands...well they would know..

good luck

keep us posted.

[Robot Guy]

Funny you should ask...
My mom took me to one when she saw how gross my picked fingers were when I was young, and the dermatologist said "Just get him to stop picking it off!" I think this is much more mental based picking...
Picking just feels so good....so good it's bad....
Who knows what I'm talking about? I don't go for pain stuff, my skin peels off really well, so it shouldn't hurt if I do it correctly (I have had 20+ years of practice), but SOMETIMES...
I miss the place to stop the pick and it bleeds, and then I am pissed I let it get this far. Then I put a band aid over the picked bleedy digit (usually thumbs) and stop for the day. Then a day later when I remove the band aid, the skin underneath is all grey and wet and dead and ick, and so I gots to clean up that bad pick with more picking....
If I'm the only crazy person who does this let me know. I have a suspicion that others follow this cycle as well.......

I think if the skin was softer, I'd go pick crazy on it, unless it wasn't pickable/peelable. So I was at a party tonight, and I told myself I wouldn't pick... then I got there and let the picking floodgates open up......
I'm going to check on hypnotherapists this weekend and call someone on Monday.

[Moni]

Hey you are just like me. I pick to a point that I need a band aid and i think when it heels I won't do it anymore. Yeah right a day or two later it is pick away time. This is the first time I checked on the computer about this problem. I am relieved to know there are others like me and we can help each other.