I’ve had this problem since I was a child. I always had to scratch scabs off over and over again. I also used to hurt myself so I could have something to pick. It’s been okay lately but tonight it’s very bad.
I found a spot on my head, in my hair that I just couldn’t stop picking. I felt something really weird and have to pick it off, I’m not sure what it is. I did a bit of damage and there was some blood, my boyfriend stopped me when he saw I was obsessing.
(Apparently there’s a hole in my head now but I just see the thing I’m trying to get off, he said he didn’t see anything there)
I’m having a really hard time not picking at it, I can feel something there and I can’t stop focusing on it, it’s like the only thing I can feel right now and I just want to get it off!
I put a toque on so i can’t compulsively pick it. I’m trying to distract myself but it’s not working! Does anyone have any advice or experience in this kind of thing?
I have this weird obsession to pick scabs off too. Like I just can’t keep my fingernails off them- until it’s completely off.
My mom used to cut my fingernails short, and then she’d dump rubbing alcohol on all the areas I’d scratched…burned like the dickens. Then my entire family would stand there and make fun of me until I cried.
Gloves only work if you can’t pull them off…
This isn’t always such a bad thing to do, but it’s better to put your obsession to benefit you.
With all my practice, I’ve become one of the best sticky new item sticker remover people have come across, and they’re always seeking me out when they bring home new items.
I don’t know but moving some part of your body like your legs frequently may help,
I have an idea that trapped energy in body is the source of this and all psyche illnesses,
What about trying some bubble wrap (do they have that where you are)? You could try popping instead of picking at something, or using a stress ball maybe.
Trapped energy is that energy that we have to connect to this world, to love, to enjoy things, to feel related to other things an persons or whatever…
When we suppress this energy from moving out and relating to world by saying nothing has enough value to be in love with or spending time for because life is short or nothing is permanent or any other suppressive excuses then this energy is trapped and it starts to ruin body and psyche in form of every illness including anxiety, in religious texts it is stated as being ungrateful for life, let’s leave these texts because no one loves them😉
@aliali Yeah, I think I understand what you mean. Unfortunately I’ve been thinking negatively for quite some time and have been in a bad state of mind, I do feel like my energy is unbalanced. How do you think you can release trapped energy? By loving more?
Our illness is the proof that this energy exist yet and I think it is alive until proofed death, later of its destiny is in the dominion of prophetes😂
My advice is searching endlessly for joy, mental or physical cause joy is joy
A good meal,
A comedy movie,
A good sex,
A good novel,
Going for a walk with a friend,
Kissing loved one,
Searching for science if you are a crazy dude like me,
Learning a new language
Doing light sport if you like it
This list has no end😉
See what moves you and do it,
There is joy in everything ready to be discovered
, the key point is endlessly searching,
This is what releases the energy
I also compulsively pick, I also have them on my scalp. I have had a bad breakout of some kind of little rash on my head over a year ago and I have been picking it and keeping it going for over a year. This is the part that might help you - I actually gave my self little bald spots where I over picked. I couldn’t stop myself even when the bald spots started to appear even though this was hurting my self esteem and making me cry. Recently I found a little spot on my chest that the doctor said it looked to be squamous cell carcinoma and he froze it off. It blistered and the blister was seeping. Well being the OCD freak I am, I started obsessing that the fluid contained cancer cells (even though logically I know it doesn’t work that way) I didn’t want to cross contaminate the sores on my scalp with the thing on my chest so finally after a year of hell of picking my scalp to the point of baldness I stopped. I’m thankful I’m finally free from those last remaining scabs and hope it’s a long time before I pick again. FYI I’m not picking at the healing cancer scab because I don’t want to spread the cancer (even though I know you can’t spread it that way) I guess I’m just a freak.
During the year that I picked my scalp I had two courses of antibiotics due to the sores getting infected badly and the infection spread to my lymph nodes countless times. The things got so badly infected at one point the doctor actually gave me a weeks worth of norcos for pain, and they never give that stuff out. One of my lymp nodes got to be the size of a golf ball and boy did it hurt. Please try to stop now before you get too bad.
I pick at myself a lot and the best thing to help fix it is to find something else to pick at. I found that painting my nails and then picking that off helps distract me sometimes.
I’ve had this same kind of problem ever since I was ten years old. Compulsive lip pressing. I would press my lips together over and over again compulsively and I couldn’t stop. I’ve been doing this for the past forty-seven years. I take CBD oil 10 mg every am and Klonipin 0.5 mg every afternoon for this and it all helps.
careful with picking on the scalp, if a scalp abrasion gets infected you could stop growing hair in that spot altogether. bald spots as a rule are not sexy.
