I have quit & would like 2 help u

[Rhiannon]

Hi, i picked my skin for so long. I didn't think anyone was like me until i was bored and typed 'why can't i stop picking my face?' into google! I found a site that scared me out of picking for 5 days straight!!! Since then it was like a smoker... I wouldn't pick for longer and longer periods. ONE method i also found useful was when mum caught me crying about my face. She said 'right, we're getting you some scar oil'. (u should treat ur habit before your skin by the way). The oil was very sticky, and was annoying to touch. So, i just didn't. Now that I have stopped picking I use bio oil for the scars and it's a great product! Once you stop, you know you don't want to go back!!! It took me years but U CAN DO IT :-*kisses

[Nadia]

Hi. I really want help on how to stop. I've been doing this since I was a kid and I'm now 42. I have had scars for years and would like to know where you get this scar oil and what it does. Thanks so much.
P.S. I'm so glad I found this forum. I hope it helps. This is my first time on.

[Toyah]

Hi Nadia,

The oil is called BIO OIL you can buy it in most pharmacy's would someone please help me with the below. I posted this message but no one has replied as yet. Come on guys we should be helping each other out.

Hi,
Im totally new to this site but I'm so glad I found it. I've picking my skin for over 10 years along with suffering from an eating disorder and depression. I really am at my wits end. I've read some really great reviews about Solaray Inositol Powder for helping people stop. There is even a post on this site about how great it's been. Only thing is I live in the UK and can't find it anywhere. Would anyone be able to buy me some and send it over. I would obviously pay up front for this through Ebay/Paypal and some extra for your trouble. Please please help anyone I feel like this is my last hope. Please mail [e-mail] if you will help me.

Thanks everyone for all the comments on this forum. It seems fantastic. xx

[Toyah]

Hi again Nadia, I have found this site for you.

www.bio-oil.info/en/home

Hope it answers your questions.

Toyah x

[Nadia again]

Thanks Toya,
I went to the site and it will be available in Canada this month,so I emailed the company to find out where in my area it will be sold. Have you tried organic, vitamin and health food stores for the Inostitol powder you're looking for?

[Toyah]

Hi Nadia,

That's good news. I've had Bio-Oil for some time but I must admit have never dared to use it as it's an oil and I have a fear that putting oil on my face will make my skin worse even though it's me that makes my skin worse. I've heard some great reviews about it. My sister used it for some stretch marks and she said it was great. I've tried all the health food stores etc. for the Inositol powder but none of them sell it in the strength that you need to help with compulsive bahaviour. Not only do i pick at my skin but I also have an eating disorder and it's been proven to really help with both. It's really frustrating to think there is something out there that could be helping but I just can't get hold of it in the UK. Please if anyone is reading and uses Ebay I will be happy to pay extra than the cost of some Inositol Powder.

Good Luck with the Bio-Oil Nadia

[Griefgirl]

Hi. I'm from the West Midlands in the UK. Is anyone interested in making contact with me here so I can find other people who have been as disabled by skin picking as I have been? I'm trying to quit but finding it quite hard.

Friendly,

Griefgirl

[sweetpeaunregistered]

Hi GriefGirl,

I'm posting here for the first time. I have wanted to quit picking for years, and as yet have been unsuccessful. My husband is out of town this weekend and my picking is always worse when he's not around. He called me late and we talked for a little bit, and I told him I had picked and was feeling really badly about myself. He said we'd talk about it when he gets home Monday. We said goodnight and after I hung up the phone I lay there in the bed feeling so helpless.

Earlier in the evening, I had attended a wedding where I had to see people I hadn't seen in years. I felt very embarrassed about the way I looked, because everyone wants to look great when they run into folks from their past, and I definitely didn't look great. When I am with people I know well and who I know love me, I don't worry about it as much, but I think the shame of wondering whether those folks at the wedding were thinking 'damn, she looked rough!' really put it in perspective for me. Suddenly, I was overcome with the need to find some help, and went to my computer and found www.stoppickingonme.com. I read nearly the entire thing before I finally went to bed.

While reading the parts about the true physical damage I was doing to myself by picking, I found it so sobering that I had to lay down on the floor--it was that overwhelming and scary to think about. But I regained my strength and kept reading.

This morning I feel a new hope, and at the same time, a bit overwhelmed about where to begin. My husband tries to help me get past my tendency to look at projects that way: as huge, overwhelming, insurmountable jobs that I don't know where to start on.

Today, my goal is to just to live moment to moment, keeping focused on the excited, hopeful feeling I have. I can't wait to share this new info and attitude and show all these resources to my husband when he gets back tomorrow. I am going to go buy a beautiful journal today, something that I will use to track my triggers, progress, or just express myself in. I am going to decorate it and put one word on the front: heal.

I'm looking forward to using the support that a board like this can give. I'm happy to hear of people like you who also have reached out and want support in their journey to quit picking.

I'm praying (or meditating) that you, GriefGirl, will feel the hope that I do today. That this debilitating problem will not cripple you any longer and you will begin to be healed.

[rushworth8]

I have just stumbled across this web site and foudn a couple of people in this thread from the uk... where I am from.

I have mega problems with skin picking, it is ruining my life. I started when I was about 13 and I am not in my 50's. I have had a couple of periods in my life when I didn't do it, but at the moment it is worse than ever and I can't stop.;

I would welcome the opportunity to make friends with other people in the uk with the same problems.

[zipper7]

hey,
I have had a problem picking my face since i went into school in grade 8 after 5 years of homeschooling. I believe i have figured out why I started. I think it's because I went to my grad and no one danced with me because I was a loner, but at the time I thought if you were pretty you would get asked to dance. So after then I believed I was not pretty deep in my mind, even though I would say I was and believed it when people told me. I have messed up my face now from picking it so much that even though I want to believe when people say im pretty on my better days, i don't believe them and I dont think of myself as pretty.

I am trying now something drastic. I figure that picking my face is somehow me wanting to be "in control" of my pimples/acne. As in like I SAY when they're gone. but for some reason i choose the long way. I know pimples go away faster if you dont touch them. but once i see or feel them, i HAVE to pick them. it seems uncontrolable.

SEEMS uncontrollable. but wait. I wanted to be in control right? WHAT HAPPENED? ..i've been asking myself these questions trying sooo many different things to get myself out of the habit so what im doing now is im controling something else, im controling what i eat because i used to eat a lot and putting my mind on controlling something else has been seeming to help. Im also making myself get out to the gym on a regular basis.

I have been using Vitamin E oil on my face for the past few days. I agree that oil helps stop you from touching your face. The only problem im finding is that it itches when it moves, but because i dont want to touch the oil i use a kleenex. So far so good with this oil. I'd recommend it

I started using Proactive also for like a month now. Don't waste you money, Neutrogena products work just as well.

TODAY is a scary day for me. IM TERRIFIED. I am going to subject myself to complete humiliation. I picked a whole bunch on my forehead and i have at least 15 red spots all across it. I ran out of coverup yesterday. I work tonight. I'm a cashier. I AM GOING TO GO TO WORK WITHOUT COVERUP. this is my punishment. if I can make it through today without breaking down or feeling horrible about myself then i am on the right track.

I have become too obsessed with my pimples, they should not be in my mind at all. So much so that instead of doing my piles of overdue hmk im writing this.

I saw a lady the other day with a bunch of red spots on her face, but no coverup. She is allowing me to be okay with this embarrassment. I felt like using the coverup was going against my healing, and because it couldnt heal fast enough id get bummed out again and pick.

YOU NEED TO MAKE A GOAL FOR YOURSELF. YOU HAVE TO STICK TO THIS GOAL. IF YOU DO NOT STICK TO YOUR GOAL YOU HAVE TO PUNISH YOURSELF. it is the only way. if you let yourself give up the goal with no punishment. you are going to keep letting yourself slide.

it may sound crazy, but you will feel better. the feeling of accomplishment is as strong as love


.....i won't be back on this site to post again that is why this is so long. I appoligize if its a little jumbled i didn't feel like editing it

[rae]

Griefgirl said:

Hi. I'm from the West Midlands in the UK. Is anyone interested in making contact with me here so I can find other people who have been as disabled by skin picking as I have been? I'm trying to quit but finding it quite hard.

Friendly,

Griefgirl

hi griefgirl

london, here! trying to stop as always- struggling tho'

[Suzanne]

Hi, I'm Suzanne and I also have this scalp picking problem. It's driving me nuts lately and I went to a hypnotherapist to see if it would help. It didn't. I've been considering getting some gel nails which helps a little, but I'd rather just cure the obsession.

I'm so happy to hear that I'm not the only one! The Hypno guy said I wasn't but I didn't beleive him. Anyway, thanks for all the great suggestions of bio-oil and everything else. Even just reading this is helping.

I know what everyone means about the hair cuts, and I guess they must see it all the time. All the lies. LOL

Well I just wanted to say thanks. so far I just wear gloves in winter and hats frequently to mitigate the problem.