Does anyone know if there’s a link between compulsive skin picking and add/adhd?
I dunno, im starting to wonder if I have add and skin picking is something i frequently hyperfocus on when getting distracted from a task
I’m kinda tired of dermatillomania
Normally in the summer
I’m all “Can’t leave the house, too hot for long sleeves, someone will see my arms.”
And today I actually thought “I have no desire to leave the house. It is too cold to bare my arm, no one will see it.”
Like
This is good
This is happy.
I still have one icky derma arm
But look at my kickass tattoo!
Ughhh
Emailing tattoo artist
And wondering if/how I should bring up my dermatillomania
And I should because otherwise he will say something about it and I should get it over with in email
Because I won’t be able to verbally
And that’s so cool!
But I can’t
I’m going to sit here in my corner and be ashamed
with my summer sweaters
and make up that never matches right or covers enough
I want my skin back.
Pros:
- It feels good
- It gives me control
Cons
- I destroy my skin
- I am left with horrible scars
- My self-esteem plummets
- I am constantly spending money on skin products and makeup
- I stop myself from enjoying things because of my condition
- I am consistently self-conscious and hard on myself for it
- It stops me from pursuing relationships with people
- My family suffers when they see my face
- It’s always on my mind
- I don’t actually have the control I think I do when I do it because I am a slave to the behavior
- One minute of feeling good leaves a lifetime of scars that make me feel not so good
- I get into fights with people who don’t understand it and it’s pointless trying to explain it to them
- It stops me from actually leaving my house
- Depression
The list goes on, these are just what I could think of right now. I encourage you to make your own Pros and Cons list and put it up next to your mirror so when you get the urge to pick take a look at it and remind yourself why it just isn’t worth it.
This so bad right now.
