/psy/ - psychology and psychonautics

yep, that's me too. it sucks because it makes me feel like I'm insane because I can't even control my own hands. I've done it since I was in elementary school when I would compulsively pick my scalp, sometimes even until it bled. During adolescence I had acne and it transferred to using that. Even after curing most of my real acne, the behavior still crops up almost every day, even on days I thought I wouldn't have to do it.

To others it might seem strange or trivial but it totally disrupts your sense of autonomy and can induce depersonalization, besides just regular low self-esteem.

Regular therapy and anxiety meds have never helped me with it. All my own mind-hacks and tricks have fallen apart after a while.

gloves.

>>300
Only time my fingers looked good in the past 10+ years was when I played an online game for a couple of weeks straight. (Warframe to be specific)

I don't know how to fix this, most times I can stop when a finger starts bleeding. Try picking at other things on your body but that won't really improve anything.

I'd preach about looking into yourself and searching for the root cause of the stress or whatever, but I'm sure you've thought about this already. It's been easier since I stopped caring how it looks or how other people might feel about it. Actually I stopped caring about a lot of things, but I don't think that's a good idea, although stress has never been lower.

>>302
Are there any that allow you to continue typing?

>>304
of course. very easy to find. take the tightest and thinnest.

>>305
polyethylene gloves come to mind
and golf gloves (you can get cheap ones from walmart)

>>300
i do this a lot, i bite my fingers and the inside of my mouth. the inside of my mouth usually starts bleeding and i play around with the blood for a while, sucking the blood out of my cheeks and letting it flow on my tongue. i don't have any mental disorders and i'm not on any meds. i really don't know how to stop myself from doing this.

Try to impregnate your fingers with a substance that's unbearably bitter. If you punish the behavior, it will most likely go away, but you'll probably acquire some other behavior that serves the same purpose.

s/bitter/unpalatable/

not everyone can taste bitter