What type of skin-pick are you dealing with?

[Butterfly]

I understand there are different types of skin-picking...but i see everyone shares same feelings no matter which type they're dealing with

Ok, i for one am dealing with this:
I had serious acne when i was a teenager. It got really bad when i was 14-15 and that was when skin-pick was my everyday hell (and living in the same house with my parents who would observe my face every day to see if i had done it or not)
I was on Roaccutan for about a year (6 months, break, another 6 months).It absolutely saved me
I'm no longer suffering from big red aching spots...but i do get little ones and mainly i get "black" pores (mostly invisible not black but i do "feel" them if you know what i mean). Same on my body.

I dont care much about my face cause it looks ok and it heals overnight should a crisis happen (i have come to realise that the easier you can get the dirt out, the easier the pore heals after that)

I care about my shoulders, chest, arms, hands even the bikini area (sometimes my legs too). I put pressure on these areas and then wounds are formed because of my nails...i can now picture myself doing it, i'm litterally hard on myself
It always starts with one spot and in the end i pick on every pore that feels a bit bumpy. It's awful, i feel such a loser then. I wash like a maniac and cry in the shower

I am a pretty young girl and i can never enjoy myself because of this....i want to wear open tops and i cant do it for more than a week.
I want to go to the beach and not catch people's eyesight on my bikini
I wanna be able to say "cool, i'll be there in 30 mins" and not having to make excuses why i cannot show up

Recently a friend of mine was not feeling well and while i wanted to be there for her i couldnt cause i had just picked on my skin. I sooo hated myself that night. As well as every other night when i see my friends comfy in their dresses and me trying desperately to hide my wounded skin


Ok, long enough innit? ;D

if you're not too bored to tell, which type are you?

[obnoxa]

My hands and my feet are my worst areas, but truely, I'm an all-over picker. There's no place on my body I don't pick, there are times when I strip down to the buff in front of a mirror and just work my way from head to toe. I attack my face alot, I guess because I can hide behind make-up. But for the most part, no place is safe from my wrath.

[sagacious]

Im a checker and picker of my face. The rest of my body doesn't freak me out and I leave it alone except for the bad habit of messing with healing wounds. But its weird how I can just accept the bump or mar on the rest of my body and leave it alone but treat my face the way I do. A part of my brain truly believes if I get the what ever the heck is causing the tiniest of bumps (that no one else can even see) out it will heal faster. Now we all know that just isn't so but why won't I ever learn that? Aggravating isn't it?

[Stef (Incubabe)]

I pick *takes a breath* my face, neck (sometimes), arms, legs, stomach, shoulders, and sometimes back (when I can wrench my arm around lol). Lately Ive cut down the picking in my stomach. I dont pick below my knee though. And my lower arms are healing up well and I still pick them but in spots that are covered by my bracelets. ;D Other than that...Im usually a mess.

[kathy kathy]

sagacious, we are twins. I'm exactly the same way.

[e]

i'm an almost triplet to kathy and sagacious. my face bothers me the most, but i sometimes pick at pimples on my chest and back.

[Teresa =)]

Hello ;D how r u all?
well i only pic one cheeck of my face... i mena my total face is ok expcets one cheeck... but i usually covered it with makeup all my face... for give my face a "compact colour"... i think is cause i dont have acne and when i got a blackhead( this is the word right?) which is very weird .... i usually get on the same place my right cheeck... pfff-.--and is very bad!i mean i make big holes on my pook cheeck.. so i have "things" that can have like 4 or 5 months! ..... and well i am example that u dont necesary has to have a bad acne to pick urself! .... so i guess is more profound than physicial thing.....
anyway i also picked my neck since a lil time ago.. cause some friedn selled me some cheap cologne and i bought it.. on my neck started to appears small "balls" and i was kind of obsed and i picked them... it was cause the cologne make a alergic reaction to my skin and i notice cause my mom told me that that happened to her.... i mena the alergic reaction but she is a non picker so her health and well... me.....
i used to pick my chest but now is health... and i pick my back somethimes when i am streesfull i used to pìck my legs cause once i depilated (sorry boys...) and i did so bad that my legs end with lil crust so i started to picked them.. if that would never happened maybe i would never pick my legs... so my conclution is i pick every crust or "imperfecition" i see... ...
well this is my stuff
pd: and i haventy picked myself for a week ;D... wich me ! are proud of it (also my lil sista is proud and she was salling good... good... jeje).. well today i have something to do on the afternoon and as always i was with makeup and my dad told :"u have putted to much makeup on ur face ....maybe u have pick ur face again... we already talk is u pick ur face again i will not say u nothing i will hit u instead of talk to u"!!.
And i was repeting i do not did nothing cause it was true!and he said that he didnt believe me and i feel so damn bad i hate somethimes when he is so unsensitive.. and he said we already talk! and he will hit me next time! and i was sad but i feel safe cause i didt `pick myt face and i was telling the true! well after that it was all normal... anyway he let me on the place i had to be for a dinamic of a uni group i had to do...right now i think maybe would be better to used my car isntead of tell him to give me a ride and make me pass a bad moment! ... anyway i didnt pick and i will not! cause i will show him he is wrong.....

kisses
Teresa

[moon]

i pick everywhere...except for my lower legs, and feet...

and now that warm weather is going and cold weather is coming...the picking is getting worse (can cover with more clothes)...and stress is really bad right now (financially)...so picking has started again...

[scarreddaisy]

my back shoulders and scalp.. my face a lil bit but usually i keep away from it cuz i dont wanna have to try and fix it with makeup...

[Lucy]

I pick my face, back (very badly ) and my arms (badly also ) I have started to be able to only pick once maybe a day or two on my face which is helping it clear up a little. But my back and arms are the grossest things on earth. It's like I've been stabbed a million times all over them.
I swear it sucks. I used to have a mole on my face (like Cindy Crawford) but when I was 4, I picked it off. Literally. I don't have one anymore. Just wanted to say that because I just remembered it and now I am remembering that I have been picking my whole life. For 10 years and I'm only 17!!!

[scarreddaisy]

i have a mole too one my face and i tried picking it off on numerous occassions but it always came back

[pixelkid]

I'm generally a scalp, shoulders and back gal. Occaisionally have issues with my face and will pick anything that's there but usually manage to stop before causing major damage. It's my scalp that's bad, I can't see it so I don't know how bad it is but it's gotta be kinda gross after 12 years. I dunno.

[Carree]

Well my main area that I pick is my lower legs, this is why I haven't wore shorts all summer , but I will also pick other areas like my shoulders, back, face, scalp and arms.

[pickles]

You name it, and I have picked at it! I pick at my face, chest, shoulders, arms, back, legs, and I even pick under my fingernails. I haven't picked at my arms and legs very much in the past few months, but my face, chest and shoulders are an absolute disaster right now!

[Brook]

Wow, this is amazing....I have picked my face for about 11 years and nobody I knew was ever a chronic picker like myself. Sure, they would get the occasional pimple and squeeze it, but nothing like me. It is mainly the hard scabs that I feel the need to pick off, and I also can't stop hassling things that hurt, like blind pimples that squeezing only makes worse, and like sore fingernails or toenails. I also bite my fingernails, but not too bad, my sister's fingernails are deformed from biting. I attack my back and upper arms and peel the skin off my feet. All of these I do until I bleed. My feet got so bad I couldn't walk properly at one stage. It is basically anywhere that I get a blemish, or have rough skin. I am really happy to have found this site so that I can look at techniques for dealing with this disorder, and also finding out the possible reasons. I thought it was just a childhood habit that I didn't give up, but I realise it is definately more than that, and that it is escalating, and new areas are being picked as I grow older. Thanks for letting me finally tell someone about this.......It feels really good.