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Post by erin7star on Aug 26, 2004 3:08:47 GMT -5
Any ideas suggestions or tips on how I can stop myself from thinking there is "still something in there- i can feel it!"??
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Post by ameise on Aug 30, 2004 22:29:01 GMT -5
do you have any experiences of thinking: "there is still something in there" but having to give up, because you weren't able to get it out -- and then when left alone "it" got smaller/ went away... in other words didn't need to be "gotten out"
I try to stop myself by remembering that it works that way -- whatever is "in there" either dissolves or gets un-inflamed if left alone.....
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Post by NJGUY24 on Sept 13, 2004 21:32:07 GMT -5
Wow...
I just joined and was going to post this same message. I agree with the answer given that knowing if you leave it alone it will eventually go away. BUT WHEN. I can stop the urge for a day or two. Maybe three? But if it's still there.... I'll break down and try to "force it out". As all of us here know, it loooks 5X as bad when I'm finally thru trying. WTF!? I knew that would happen when I started. It always does. But I can't keep myself from doing it anyway!
Sorry, Not much help, but at least we're not alone.
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Post by anonymousartist on Sept 16, 2004 18:50:28 GMT -5
One of our board members, nueromancer, posted this really useful comment that I think we all need to remember (I'm not sure which thread it was so I'll just restate it).
Basically, she said she had talked about this with multiple dermatologists and argued the whole thing. What she said was that almost all of the time when you squeeze you actually never get out the bacteria or clog or foreign element that is causing the infection that we know as a zit. What we're squeezing out is the build up of our own white blood cells that are trying desperately to clear up the infection (which go away as soon as the infection is gone). If we pick it, the white blood cells and lymph still have to build up and we end up with the "scabzit".
This little fact has made a tremendous difference in how I think about picking. Before I had heard that anything will be "reabsorbed" by the skin, and that just sounded gross! Like the icky stuff is still there. But the fact is that if we leave it alone we are letting our body naturally get rid of the bad stuff in there (and also not spreading it or breaking blood vessels). It's just like when you get a cold and your body has to get rid of it on its own. (except with a cold we build an immunity. If we spread half-killed bacteria we may end up breeding more resistant bacteria, and we won't build immunity).
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