#dermatillomania mention

[even-if-in-another-time]

btw not even slightly joking i will never fucking get how skin conditions came to be seen as something not conventionally attractive like man. are we looking at the same fucking people. people w acne on the sides of their faces??? with red spots across their cheeks and nose and forehead and the edges of their lips??? people with spots across their shoulderblades and back??? jfc they’re so pretty i wanna scream. people with acne and rosacea and dermatillomania all all all kinds of skin conditions that i didn't mention ily i am kissing u on the nose/sticking a lil gold star sticker on you. right now.

[phoenixyfriend]

Made up title: Your Past is a Wound You Won’t Let Heal.

The “Let” is optional

send me a made-up fic title and i’ll tell you what i would write to go with it

15yo Anakin is dragged to the healers after Obi-Wan finds that he's developed a compulsive habit (dermatillomania) of picking at the scar tissue where his slave chip used to be.

(The inciting incident was Palpatine making some veiled comments about Anakin still being a slave, now to the Jedi, and Anakin's nightmares going into a spiral of 'what if they didn't actually take the chip out, they just said they did'.)

[kazooie]

You know you're not doing well when one of the main things you genuinely look forward to each day is picking at the same scab you've been working on for weeks

[thethingything]

Me: our dermatillomania has been pretty bad lately, especially on our legs, so I'm gonna bandage them up to prevent any more damage and give them a chance to heal

Lucy, before I can finish my train of thought: 🎵 all wrapped up like a mummyyyy🎵

[youremyonlyhope]

Living with Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors

Me: *Is super stressed over life.*

Trichotillomania: Time to pull some hair! C'mon. You won't even notice you're doing it. It'll make you feel better.

Me: NO. *Spends 4 days putting hair in a mini twist protective style* There.

Dermatillomania: Hey. Your hands are free. And restless. And dry... Pick your skin. Bleed. Bleed.

Me: Stop! *Starts up a new crochet project to keep hands busy.* Ok cool.

Onychophagia: Hi hi. Your nails are.... perfect biting length... you should do that.

Me: Noooooooooooo *Paints nails.*

Dermatillomania: Oh look, you got some nail polish on your skin. Pick it off... now pick some more...

Me: SDJAKFDSJFKLDKAFDJKLAFJDKSAKLFDASL

[autumnblooms]

Still thinking about Mountain with anxiety and the weight of the world on him, but how he’d never let his pack see that. But all that energy has to go somewhere, and while beating the shit out of his drums helps, in down time he’ll often end up zoning out and picking the skin off his fingertips. Aether was always good at catching him doing it and would use a bit of quintessence magic to help snap him out of it, but with Aether gone Dew has been trying his best to look out for him. If he catches Mountain doing it he’ll just put a gentle, warmer than normal hand over his hands and give him a smile he doesn’t let too many see.

[runby2]

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Lotty board to remind you to bandage up wherever you pick at your skin, and to not pull your leaves out before they can grow! -> for autistic self harm awareness

Icon free to use with credit

For my friends with Dermatillomania, mouth chewing, chest slapping, Trichotillomania, and other self harm compulsions, what's helped with mine as of recently has been bandaging it up! On my fingers, using coconut oil prevents me from picking dead skin off and it makes it look a lot like the rest of my skin. This gives it time to heal. I also use hand sanitizer so the taste prevents me from chewing. Stay safe, and remember, our skin and hair needs to stay where it is at any cost! Make sure to find distractions! ✨

[kittyslashers]

boys who have The skin picking disorder when they pick at their skin non stop: oich why are my fingers raw and sore and all my scabs are open and bleeding

[sunshinecircusworld]

what happened to circus lion's ear?

It is a sentient frosted animal cookie and it regularly eats pieces of itself! Its ear is the one area I have decided to show a prominent bite mark on, other ones are healed or omitted from current artworks. It is able to reach its mouth to its ear because it is a contortionist clown who follows cartoon anatomy and physics rules so it can basically stretch and fold its body in ways u couldnt even imagine 🎪

[coridallasmultipass]

Felt cute, might deteriorate later. [He/Him]

[anti-endo-haven]

i hate haviing dermatillomania . . . . .,.,.... i pick at scars and our skin so much it bleeds and everyone just says "ew" or "dont do that" or "stop picking at your scabs" and i feel like i cant stop. its an obsessive compulsion because dermatillomania falls under the OCD spectrum. i hate it so much and i dunno what to do to stop it. i currrently have 4 scabs on my face i pick at and they make me feel really ugly but i just cant stop picking. im almost always bleeding from somewhere

-🪐🫀

Make sure to care for the wounds. If you’re able, try picking up a habit like chewing gum or making sure your hands are busy (playing games, holding something, making sure you’re constantly moving) as a means of trying to help.

I’m not entirely all sure what to say, but I hope everything eases soon.

[diapause]

self careeeee

[little-bloodied-angel]

I dunno, maybe I'm crazy, but if I had a kid with such severe body dysmorphia that it has driven them to self-harm, caused psychotic episodes where they tried to mutilate their body, and heavily influenced their chronic suicidal tendencies, and they found two harmless, non-invasive things that help alleviate it (gel nails and professionally done eyebrows, especially considering that left to their own devices they'll use the tweezers to destroy their face because they also have dermatillomania), I wouldn't deny them those things, tell them that they're going to get them and then ensure they don't, and call them a spoiled rotten brat the few times they manage to have them done, simply ask for them, or remind me that I made a promise. But like I said maybe it's just me? Everyone acts like my mother is perfect, so I must just be delusional.

Then again if I had a kid with body dysmorphic disorder and an ED, I also wouldn't constantly be making negative comments about their body, face, skin, hair, general appearance, makeup, preferred clothing or even their weight. Oh well.

(life in general and the holidays in particular are going just great, y'all)

[anawkwardlady]

Me after making my lips bleed by too much picking and having my hand covered with blood spots I have to lick : vampire moment <3

[irlbeanieboo]

i’m going to try to start recovering from my skin picking, it’s really affected my life and my self esteem and it would help my well being so much :3 i’m actually 75 weeks clean from s/h, but i’m so lucky to have a support system that has actively helped me since day 1. i believe i can do well tho!!! i’ve got this!!!! i am recovery king i can do self care activities instead of self damaging activities :333

[icannotgetoverbirds]

Auctober 2022

I don't know if I'll be able to keep up with this all month, but I saw @autiebiographical 's post and got so excited about this, so I just had to join in however I'm able!

Stims! I love me some good hand flapping. Jumping up and down and leg bouncing are some more high-energy ones. Sometimes I'll layer my fingers over each other, one by one, and then layer them in reverse order - that's actually the first stim I remember doing!

Sometimes, when I'm trying to sleep, I'll just sort of bend my foot up and down like I'm pressing on and releasing a pedal. Still not sure what that one's about, to be honest (/pos).

Tapping my fingers in sequence sometimes drives other people a little crazy, but having a laptop where I can type and get essentially the same thing done helps with that.

Chewing is also a really good stim, but I don't have any chewelry or anything yet, and gum just doesn't work for me, unfortunately. Someday, though, I'm gonna get myself a nice chewing stick.

Granted, there are a few stims that aren't so good that I have (under the cut, content warning for self harm), but those are some of my most common ones.

Sometimes, when I'm really frustrated, I'll hit myself on my head with the heel of my palm, or I'll dig into my skin with my nails. Often, regardless of how I'm feeling, I find myself picking and pulling hairs.

When I was a kid, I also used to pick and chew and rip at my nails. I'll be honest, I'm not sure what made me stop doing that, but I'm grateful nonetheless.

I also occasionally chewed on my shirts when I was younger? I don't know why, I guess I just craved the flavor of fabric. I really have always been a chaotic little gremlin.