| Vanguard Stables |
| Darkside I feel like it just depends on the day for me haha |
Sunny| Blackwell Estates |
| Lmao Min xD Especially when the meds I get for my face make my skin so dry, it's like it's snowing T.T |
| Blackwell Estates |
| I honestly can't tell you that, Van. For me, the painful stimuli is why I pick, so it may be different for you |
| 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 |
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| Blackwell Estates |
| Lmao Min xD Especially when the meds I get for my face make my skin so dry, it's like it's snowing T.T |
| Blackwell Estates |
| I honestly can't tell you that, Van. For me, the painful stimuli is why I pick, so it may be different for you |
| 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 |
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