Anyone care to start with me? today?

[Butterfly]

hi everyone. I've been off boards lately first off due to studying and secondly cause...well...i kinda thought i could make it on my own. Without checking in and reading posts, without telling anyone about my bad days, just writing on my journal and keeping it all to myself.

Clearly it didnt work. So here i am and i'm asking for someone to join me in this battle. This is day #1 for me...i did "wonders" this morning and have been doing so every other day lately

I think it'll be easier for me to have someone to confide in everyday and inform them on my progress (crossing fingers here)

I havent been feeling very well lately...i give in to sp then feel tons worse

thanx for hearing me out

take care everyone
Butterfly

[e]

good luck, butterfly! you can do it. i can understand if you really want a buddy, but we're all in it together, even if we're on different days (i'm behind the group too). so if you want to keep us posted according to your own schedule, that's cool!

xoxo

[firegirl]

i haven't been online much, myself, lately, due to just about the same reasons... i've been working like crazy and studying all the damn time.

i had a bad morning... over stressed and over tired and getting a cold and ex-boyfriend problems and i'm taking it out on my poor skin. i'm definitely ready to move past this... i just need a little help!

the zt theory seems to be successful, with a bunch of people on day 10- i've never been able to get past day 1! that's soooo encouraging! i think the group support will definitely help, and having a confidant who understands how hard it is to stop will make things a lot less intimidating.

i'm just finding out about zt, and if you want a partner, i'd love to team up... i can't promise contact every single day, due to my work schedules, but i'm online 5 or 6 days a week, and yours will be the first message i respond to...

if you want, write me at [e-mail].

[Amy]

It is so true about the support you get here. Last week I tried to quit, and was unsucessfull. When I was just about to give up, I found this site, and I am so excited to say that Monday was my day # 1, and I made it through the whole day, (24 hours) without picking once. I have not been able to do that in the 14 years I've been picking. Finding this site has been life changing for me, and I hope to be able to continue. Right about the 23rd hour, my whole body itched, and I thought I would go crazy if I didn't scratch. So I held my hands back. Then I started to go all through the house, and straighten all the pictures on the wall. (They all looked crooked to me). My husband was able to calm me down, and gave me a good talk. I now know that he realized how much harder it is to quit this habbit, because you carry it with you all the time. You can't just leave the people you hang around to get away from it. Anyway, I just want to thank all of you for your support. I want so badly for my kids to be proud of me and think of me as beautiful, not wondering what all those spots are.
Take care, and I am right here with you,
Amy

[e as guest]

hey butterfly, i wasn't offended at all! i'm sorry my post made it seem that way. i just meant that if you can't find a buddy to be on the same schedule as you, don't give up. you can still count on us (obviously, you know that!).

[Butterfly]

Hi Amy
and welcome!

Good for you to have found this board, first step to quitting your habit

I can only imagine how difficult it must be for you to have to excuse yourself to your kids and let your husband know about your problem. He seems supportive and you're very lucky.

congrats on your day one. Come back and let us know how you're doing.

Hugs and sending strength your way

Butterfly

p.s. thanx e, i sometimes wonder if i'm grasping english in the same meaning it is written lol. and vice-versa about my english! i'll learn...xx

[Guest Janita]

Hello everyone, I registered today but still have not received my password yet so I'm posting as a guest.

Butterfly I'm a few days behind you but I'll start with you. Actually, I feel as if I start ZT every day of my life without success. Now that I've found this board, I'm hoping to get by at least ONE day without picking. If I can accomplish that, it will give me hope for day 2.

For the past few weeks I've been feeling really bad about myself. I have two really bad spots on my face, one, on the left side of my mouth/upper lip, How obvious is that? and one on the left side of my cheek up where your jaw bone connects. I have pretty short hair so I can't even cover it.

In recent months, I've become so obsessed with them and so selfconcious, that I've avoided going out with my friends or seeing people. When I MUST go out, I always make sure not to let anyone sit on my left side or else I stand, always making sure my left side is away from the person I'm talking to.

I'm 42 years old and I've been a picker all my life. I can remember my mom and sisters teasing me when I was little, about picking mosquito bites. Honestly, I wasn't bothered by it then. I even laughed with them. It's only been the past 6 years or so that I've started picking my face and scalp. I can't stop and it's overtaking my life.

Today I'm starting ZT. I hope I can do this. NO, I KNOW I can do this.

PS, is touching allowed???