does anyone have this problem??

[mlolly]

I have been picking at my arms since i was 13 and haven't been able to stop since. As time went on i began to pick at other places. The most embarrasing place is my chest. Toward my nipple i have these things that look like craters that are from digging at the skin. On the actual pink part around the nipple i have large bumps that have the white stuff i them and come out when i pick at them. i don't know what to do anymore and am so frustrated. Does anyone have these problemes or have any tips to help the skin get how it used to be.

[Spring Angel]

Hi and welcome. Yes, I have this problem. Have been doing it for years and have some craters as well.

Right now I am not doing it. I am working a 12 step program here on this site, adapted from the AA program.

(see "successful day and feeling good yay" thread on the Support Board)

The important thing is that you are here, admitting your problem and asking for help. That is HUGE!

I want to welcome you, and invite you to KEEP COMING BACK!! You will learn a lot here.

I started on scabs, then my arms, when I was in my early teens. It never stopped. I picked for 35 years. I am almost completly fee of picking now in just one month of working the 12 step program. So there is at least one solution.

We care, and want to be your support system. You deserve to be able to learn how to stop damaging yourself, and to learn that this is not your fault.

It is OCD related, (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and has a name, Obsessive Skin Picking. So you are just one of us hon. We are the same. You are not alone any longer.

Sending a bouquet of blue flowers and a tube of Neosporin to put on your boo boos every day several times a day, instead of picking them (actually, if you don't have any please go get some right away okay?)

Your boo boos need antibiotics to help them heal.

Please go to the 12 step thread. You have nothing to lose by trying and it works for me and others as well.

luv,

Spring