| Minerva |
| Totally agree Grape (plus I'd destroy it completely in 5 minutes and end up spending a fortune on the fuckers xD) My body produces free picky bits and I shall use them to my heart's content lol |
Sunny| Minerva |
| Totally agree Grape (plus I'd destroy it completely in 5 minutes and end up spending a fortune on the fuckers xD) My body produces free picky bits and I shall use them to my heart's content lol |
| Vanguard Stables |
| Darkside Yes! like I know I've done it good enough when I'm either bleeding or my skin is level, will silicone and beads give off the same? |
| Gaelic Gladiacres |
| oh totally. there's a kind of visceral feedback you can't get from nearly anything else |
| Blackwell Estates |
| Reason I don't have a picky pad is I'm not sure it's a good enough replacement? Like it gets the picking but it doesn't have the same sensations, if that makes sense. |
| Gaelic Gladiacres |
| it's taken *years* of therapy work for me to figure out things that make it easier to deal with, but it never goes away and there are days (weeks, sometimes) when it's a long string of "downward" progress. but that's life, we just gotta be able to live with ourselves at the end of the day and try again tomorrow |
| Gem Queens Estate |
| @gladius That's literally me with picking and social anxiety. I'm getting tougher mentally on both but sometimes I still lose. >.> |
| Blackwell Estates |
| My partner is a fucking saint. I snap at him at times if he stops me and he just takes it all in stride and keeps me from hurting myself, intentionally or not. He's such a sweetheart, I don't deserve him |
| Vanguard Stables |
| Gladius Yep, I really want a picky pad but It's not really something I can use in school |
| Gem Queens Estate |
| @grape I might have a touch of something. And thank you very much! XD |
| Gaelic Gladiacres |
| yeah kids are mean, this is why it's important to educate about the different struggles people have such as "I physically cannot stop doing this and need alternative mechanisms to deal with it, because I want to but my brain literally will not let me" |
| Gem Queens Estate |
| @grape I bet. I've never had a partner so I have no clue how I'll deal with it. I just might start to cry or something... |
| Blackwell Estates |
| I am also autistic though so that may be a part of it >.> |
| Blackwell Estates |
| Sometimes I can stop myself but if my partner stops me while I'm anxious picking, it's physically distressing for me to not pick at whatever I was focused on. It can be rough |
| Vanguard Stables |
| Kids on the bus will tell me if I can't wear lipstick then I think blood will do, It's stupid, kids make stupid comments, but it really gets to me and I can't stop |
| Gaelic Gladiacres |
| seconding all of this lol even though my acne has cleared up comparatively from when I was a teen...I am constantly picking scabs and shit |
| Minerva |
| I've mostly left my hair alone thankfully but I feel you on the lips. It's my scalp as well, and when I was a teenager I went through about a year of pulling the skin off the soles of my feet. Hurt like a bitch to walk sometimes but I was too embarrassed to say anything because how the fuck do you explain that |
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| Minerva |
| Totally agree Grape (plus I'd destroy it completely in 5 minutes and end up spending a fortune on the fuckers xD) My body produces free picky bits and I shall use them to my heart's content lol |
| Vanguard Stables |
| Darkside Yes! like I know I've done it good enough when I'm either bleeding or my skin is level, will silicone and beads give off the same? |
| Gaelic Gladiacres |
| oh totally. there's a kind of visceral feedback you can't get from nearly anything else |
| Blackwell Estates |
| Reason I don't have a picky pad is I'm not sure it's a good enough replacement? Like it gets the picking but it doesn't have the same sensations, if that makes sense. |
| Gaelic Gladiacres |
| it's taken *years* of therapy work for me to figure out things that make it easier to deal with, but it never goes away and there are days (weeks, sometimes) when it's a long string of "downward" progress. but that's life, we just gotta be able to live with ourselves at the end of the day and try again tomorrow |
| Gem Queens Estate |
| @gladius That's literally me with picking and social anxiety. I'm getting tougher mentally on both but sometimes I still lose. >.> |
| Blackwell Estates |
| My partner is a fucking saint. I snap at him at times if he stops me and he just takes it all in stride and keeps me from hurting myself, intentionally or not. He's such a sweetheart, I don't deserve him |
| Vanguard Stables |
| Gladius Yep, I really want a picky pad but It's not really something I can use in school |
| Gem Queens Estate |
| @grape I might have a touch of something. And thank you very much! XD |
| Gaelic Gladiacres |
| yeah kids are mean, this is why it's important to educate about the different struggles people have such as "I physically cannot stop doing this and need alternative mechanisms to deal with it, because I want to but my brain literally will not let me" |
| Gem Queens Estate |
| @grape I bet. I've never had a partner so I have no clue how I'll deal with it. I just might start to cry or something... |
| Blackwell Estates |
| I am also autistic though so that may be a part of it >.> |
| Blackwell Estates |
| Sometimes I can stop myself but if my partner stops me while I'm anxious picking, it's physically distressing for me to not pick at whatever I was focused on. It can be rough |
| Vanguard Stables |
| Kids on the bus will tell me if I can't wear lipstick then I think blood will do, It's stupid, kids make stupid comments, but it really gets to me and I can't stop |
| Gaelic Gladiacres |
| seconding all of this lol even though my acne has cleared up comparatively from when I was a teen...I am constantly picking scabs and shit |
| Minerva |
| I've mostly left my hair alone thankfully but I feel you on the lips. It's my scalp as well, and when I was a teenager I went through about a year of pulling the skin off the soles of my feet. Hurt like a bitch to walk sometimes but I was too embarrassed to say anything because how the fuck do you explain that |
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