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tania:
i hope nobody takes this the wrong way, i am not trying to undermine anyone who has trichotillomania or anything but i am kind of glad i mentioned that now because this made me feel like a horrible disgusting weirdo for a really long time and this is literally the first time i have ever heard of anybody else except me doing it. only a few people know that about me, two of them are two of the girls i live with and i think they try to be supportive but mostly they respond really negatively and uncomfortably whenever they see me doing it and will absolutely avoid the topic at all times when they can. i know they are trying but i guess they just really cannot understand or relate to it at all. but hey, it turns out it is not as horrible and uncommon as i originally thought it was when i made that first post and already i kind of feel more okay and less shameful about it! thanks internet community.

Allybee:
I have trichotillomania, too. I didn't know what it was called until I saw this comic. this one offers some strategies to combat it but it's really hard!

I've had a lot of negative responses to the few people that I've told as well. it makes me feel really messed up and I start hating my body a lot.

it sucks that a lot of us suffered alone.

squawk:
Oh shit I totally have that too. I don't do it very much anymore but I always felt really fucking weird about it too. What the hell

tania:
i pick at my face too but it's getting better. basically the same thing as the comic ally linked - in terms of pimples, my skin is actually pretty good but it usually looks worse than should cos i tend to pick at very little things. it used to be something that happened several times a day though and now it is closer to only once every couple of weeks or so, so at least there is improvement. my skin definitely looks much better now than it did a few years ago. the way i started to get rid of this habit was by going through magazines and cutting out pictures of people who had really good skin (probably photoshopped and not even their real skin anyway... but i was just going with what worked for me which at the time included scary unrealistic photos of people's faces) and just thinking, constantly, 100% of the time about how horrible i looked after picking at my face and how much better it would be to look like someone from one of those photos, and then whenever i got the urge i grabbed the pictures and went through them until it either went away or wasn't as strong. eventually i started to genuinely not want to do it and now it is kind of okay and something that only happens once in a while, but the downside is that a couple of years ago i somehow developed this eyebrow pulling problem and absolutely none of the strategies i used for not picking at my face are working for this one. it drives me crazy with frustration.

Ozymandias:
I totally had the face picking thing until I had my acne forcibly and brutally cured by Accutane.

I still have, actually, some scalp picking, which I'm pretty icked out at myself about. I try not to but...eh. It's not as bad since it's pretty much invisible, but I get really self conscious that people notice me doing it.

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