| | Addicted to popping/picking pimplesPage 1 of 1 | It's become an almost uncontrollable habit. It's horrible. I can just rub my hand around my face, neck, chest, back for hours and pick or pop every bump I feel. And while I'm doing it, I know it's awful for me, I know it worsens my acne, I know I'm trying to resist, but it's like my arm has a mind of its own and won't stop. I sometimes wonder if my acne would go away or lessen if I were to stop this bad habit.... Like perhaps my body manifests it because of my strange need to pick at it. (It has completely cleared from time to time over the years for apparently no reason at all. I've only recently noticed my addiction. It's worse than ever right now.)
Where does a complusion like this come from and how can I end it? Does anyone else have this problem? | |
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Posted: 4/30/2010 3:33:27 PM | It's obviously a nervous habit and sounds as if it's becoming an OCD.
Seriously, you need to think a little bit about what triggers it - and to consider the pain element to it.
I'd be starting with some Rescue Remedy and then talking to your doctor about valium. Do you have any other compulsions that involve hurting yourself? Talk to your doctor.
Picking at your pimples - and even imaginary ones like you're describing - does make the condition worse. You're spreading the bacteria through your fingernails, you're potentially scarring yourself. | |
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Posted: 5/1/2010 1:50:19 PM | | Do something else with your hands -- knitting, sewing, collage or scrapbooking, scrubbing the floor, anything to keep your hands occupied. | |
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Posted: 5/1/2010 3:15:06 PM | Acne means you're too acidic. You need to be drinking more water or eating more fruits and vegetables since they are alkaline. Stay away from too much fried foods, soda pop, soy products and too much meat these foods seems to make acne worse.
Skin brushing with natural brush. This will help open up your clogged your pores to detoxify.
http://www.articlesbase.com/acne-articles/brush-your-skin-and-keep-acne-away-714717.html | |
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Posted: 5/1/2010 5:26:10 PM |
Skin brushing with natural brush. This will help open up your clogged your pores to detoxify.
Detoxify your pores?
From the article you provided link to.
"Body odor is also a result of toxins coming out through the skin that should be moving out through the other elimination channels."
Biology 101.
When you sell someones body odor you are not smelling something they are secreting.
What you are smelling is the result of the bacteria baking down the sweat.
FYI
Detox is a marketing term not a medical one. | |
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Posted: 5/2/2010 7:25:59 AM | | Your skin is known as 3rd kidney. Yes the skin is used to detoxify the body. Your skin is last to receive nutrients but first to show signs of problems. | |
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Posted: 5/2/2010 10:45:46 AM | | Sorry OP but it sounds like you have OCD. It's a severe anxiety disorder. Do you obsess about other things? I know how horrible anxiety feels like so I can relate. You can try to overcome it on your own or you can see an ocd therapist. Don't take meds. They only mask the problem and can lead to addiction. | |
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Posted: 5/4/2010 9:34:02 AM | | It is kind of an ocd action. The only other thing I do similar to this is that I pick at my cuticles... another nasty habit I picked up the first time I quit smoking. I've tried stopping that, too, but have only succeeded in going a period of time without doing it. I'm not sure if there's any one trigger that causes me to do this stuff... boredom, nervousness, having something to pick at or pop... My friends and family have joked about me being ocd over the years, because I like things neat and clean. But it's never been an unhealthy obsession or anything needing therapy. I keep my place neater and cleaner than maybe some/most people, but it's not even close to spotless. I don't know. I definitely need to practice some more willpower to get myself to quit picking/popping. It's like I have some need to get that stuff out of my skin even though I know it won't stop it from coming back. | |
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Posted: 5/6/2010 5:53:08 AM | | If you can't clear up the acne in order to have nothing to pop... and I certainly know several people who were plagued with it, it sucks... have you considered hypnotherapy? I don 't know much about it, never had it, but if you think you may have a compulsion going on... it may help change your mindset? | |
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Posted: 5/6/2010 6:09:50 PM | Sounds like it could be a human grooming impulse gone a little out of whack. True OCD would involve both obsessions ("O") and compulsions ("C") which were keeping you from being able to function normally in society or hold a job, etc... close relatives to google might be trichotillomania (sp), and tourette's (which is much more varied and complex than the twitching and shouting of profanity it has been portrayed to be in the media).
There is help for this. Seek professional help soon, please. There is no shame. You are not alone. But the longer it goes, the more hard work it will require of you, to quit. | |
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Posted: 5/10/2010 12:05:47 AM |
Picking at your pimples - and even imaginary ones like you're describing - does make the condition worse. You're spreading the bacteria through your fingernails, you're potentially scarring yourself.
Not for me. Leaving it seems to allow it to expand into a red lump, I had one of these for what must have been years til one day I decided to attack it, pretty much ripping the skin out layer by layer. Thank goodness it worked otherwise all that time wasted.
I find it definitely best to squeeze the pimple right at the start when the pus is visible just beneath the skin and see the pus shoot out  . Never will I leave it to turn into another permanent mozzie lump! And no scarring yet - I think people exaggerate this. Sores heal yet a pinprick where the pimple is doesn't? Just get it early IMO. | |
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Posted: 5/10/2010 5:34:54 AM | They do scar my arm is living proof of that. Most of mine are technically infected hair folicles so it is better to get some tweezers pluck the offending hair and then squeeze out the puss. If you don't continually attack the spot after this it will generally heal fine.
I have a few marks/spots which I continually picked at and as a result they have scarred.
I have to actively stop myself from picking them especially when bored ie sitting around waiting at a Doctor's room etc. I'll look at my arm and go ooohh a pimple and then go no don't pop it. 5 minutes later my arm will have little red dots everywhere from popping them. | |
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Posted: 5/18/2010 4:56:51 PM |
FYI
Detox is a marketing term not a medical one.[/qoute]
Any proof on that? You mean promoting vegetables is a marketing term?
When you sleep your body is actually detoxifying, that why if you don't sleep enough you increase your chances of cancer. | |
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Posted: 5/19/2010 12:01:53 PM | OP I am guessing your picking is stress related. Try to find a better way to deal with it.
that being said
Yes I have the same problem. I try to do all my picking/stress relief right before I take a shower. There are multipule types of acne. Once you get a white head any dermiatolgist will tell you it is fine to pop it. Just make sure to wash your hands and the effected area with anti bacterial soap. Remember it takes minimum 30 seconds for antibacterial soap to work so no point in only washing 15 seconds. Another type of acne is systic acne that forms deep in/under the skin. your immune system forms a protective shell around the infection to keep it from spreadding. It however will never fully cleans it up and these red bumbs will stay around for years until there dug out or antibiotics are taken. | |
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Posted: 5/20/2010 1:15:15 AM | I think it sounds similar to trichtillomania or hair pulling. That is an anxienty response and can be treated with meds. Or the knitting thing!
FFS- what's that remedy you mentioned? | |
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