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I don't think I have a reason to doubt that I have ADHD , I keep missing important texts/messages until it's minutes or hours later. For all the energy I have I keep forgetting things.skin-picking (cw for mentions of blood and skin picking)
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Keep cutting pimples then picking the scabs so that the skin won't come back. I don't have any trigger for it , I just want my skin to be smooth. Want to keep doing it till it's like acne scars.If you don’t have a direct trigger for skin picking, it can be a signal that you’re under a lot of stress. I learned that after years of thinking there was no trigger and now I know that the only way to reduce skin picking is to reduce stress, which is sadly not possible for most people in this world.
I've been peeling the skin off my fingers for years. I remember at one appointment the doctor thought I had scabies because my fingers are so covered in bloody scabs, I embarrassingly had to tell him I'd done that myself. Didn't know it was caused by stress, but that makes sense. I always just thought it was a bad habit that willpower could stop, but no matter how many times I decided to stop, I never managed to.
Yes it’s basically a coping mechanism for stress which makes it impossible to break the habit without relieving the stress. I think it’s a common issue and it sucks that we’re made to feel ashamed of it instead of getting the right tools and help to deal with the stress that’s causing it.