#actually excoriation disorder

[autisticdreamdrop]

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having a issue with picking your face/skin and or pull out your head hair, eyebrow hair, and or eyelashes

[atomicniire]

[kyahcomic]

Excoriation disorder (chronic skin picking) is a mental illness like OCD because the person cannot stop themselves from carrying out a particular action. Repetitive self injurious behaviors are common with autistic people because it’s soothing. Many stims for autistic peeps can be self injurious, like for me I bite my cheek, pick my skin, rub my face. I try to be mindful of my options when I’ve realized I’m hurting myself, I can try to fidget or if I’m really upset I use a rubber band. My partner zac also helps me a lot.

[productivedarling]

111 days of doing my absolute best

Day uhg

It feels like an ouroboros some days, wound around the innermost parts of my brain and self-devouring, squeezing, and i cannot reach what it holds in that little bubble i used to call me.

And it’s not the act of asking for help that itself is so terrifying, it’s the self-devouring. It’s the dissonance between my greatest fears and their unfeeling, unknowing peace. That I cower alone from a spectre that no one else can see.

[neoncatharsis]

dermatillomania is the worst. why am i tearing every inch of myself apart, no matter how hard i try to stop?

[eleftherian]

not me realizing that I’ve actually had dermatillomania a lot longer than I originally thought rip

[wikipediafag]

i rlly need 2 figure out a way 2 aggressively stim & let out stress w/o bfrb aaaaaa its getting bad now that i’ve cut out other Worse coping so.… if anyone has tips.. :/

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[funkyfruta]

Aa don't u just love the urge to mutilate your own gum ??

[nightmare-cat-art]

[another-autism-blog]

Tw/cw: excoriation disorder/skin picking mention

So, sensory thing, but having hair has literally always been such a sensory issue for me. I always kept my hair short and whenever I tried to grow it out, I always ended up cutting it short again (never really connected the dots till I got diagnosed). So after school I’m gonna shave my head but I have to wait till then because I’m in an acting program (if you don’t know, if you’re hired with a certain ‘look’ (i.e. haircut/color, ect) you’re expected to keep that same look for filming). My body is literally freaking the hell out and my excoriation disorder is getting bad again. It’s only 7 weeks, but idk if I can last that long.

It feels dumb to have meltdown because I have hair to my chin, but here we are. Literally so excited for when I can shave it all off though. I’m gonna be like Saitama

[what-username-where]

I whacked the hell out of my pinky toe on a crate the other day

And I don't mean stubbing, I mean I hit it so hard it bled and tore skin

And my sister goes "I mean if you didn't pick it so much it probably would have had enough skin to resist"

And @benny-mykaela-castrielle goes "you have thin toe skin now"

Which, they're not wrong, it's just ridiculous side effects of having derma

[wander2theedge]

If you’re autistic or have ADHD, chances are you also have one or all of the following:

Alexithymia

Dyscalculia

Prosopagnosia

Aboulomania

Excoriation disorder

Just gonna leave this out so that no one else has to struggle without explaining exactly WHY

[inthedepthsofmisery]

Is your mental illness ever affecting you so much that you just want to talk about it with every person you encounter? like

“Hey, how are you?”

“Oh my mental illness is just causing difficulties in every part of my life and I want to rip my brain out and throw it at a wall because it Just. Won’t. Function. Correctly. How about you, how’s Stacey?”

[transfagholmes]

The bfrb + insomnia hell combo

[oizys-miseria]

Just Dermatillomania Things #327

(Note: I think it’s important to note the area of the body one picks, just for the sake of finding those with the same issue; for me, it is my chest and breasts alone)

Relapsing because “look at yourself. You are scarred beyond repair. An otherwise lovely body is ruined and it’s all your fault. Look at the pockmarks and raised scars, the hard tiny lumps under your skin that now will not come out UNTIL you pick, the blackheads that make you feel filthy even though no one else sees them. YOU ARE RUINED.... Might as well keep doing it, you stupid fucking idiot.”

[healing-badger]

Ohohoho guys it's been a rough one. Or two. Or 5. Months.

I haven't been posting becuase it's been hard. I really need to stop now, though. I got my prom dress. There are lots of scars, lots of scabs and red spots out in the open.

I was late to school the other day becuase I was picking and honestly that sucked. I'm self consious of it in a way that just makes me want to pick more. Need to post more, hold myself accountable.

March 10, 2019