ONE LAST THING - if you're enjoying my content on dermatillomania and would like to support my dream of becoming a trained online counselor and coach to help sufferers, please feel free to buy me a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/kimonskin - I appreciate your support SO much! Thank you.
I spent almost a week without picking but I couldn't stop anymore and went back to it 5 times worse. My friends and parents say I'm destroying my skin and to "just stop". I feel a bit lonely to be honest.... I think I still believe in myself and I'm pretty sure that I WILL be able to stop doing it, I have stopped and I'm going to look for professional help this time and I'll stop. I've already told some of my friends about my compulsion and I think I'm going through the right path! Thanks for having a youtube channel dedicated to this topic♡
more esandi Hey Esandi! Thank you so much for reaching out and sharing - I know how hard it is to do that. Take your time and try to be patient with yourself on this journey, I’m sure you will get there but releasing the pressure to stop will help 💗 managing it over stopping it - does that make sense?
@@KIMONSKIN oh my goodness you answered thank you and yes I keep trying to get over it and keep failing over and over I just don't know what to do anymore
Anastasia Leonard I’m really sorry to hear this Anastasia. Has anything been effecting your mental well being recently, making you feel anxious and/or overwhelmed? Feel free to reach out to me on Instagram @kimonskin and send me a DM💗
Thank you for making these videos. I have always felt I was all alone until one day I found out about dermatillomania. I was so excited there was others like me, but then I realized people don’t really talk about it. It is so obscurely known that even autocorrect says it is spelled wrong when it isn’t. My skin picking is paired with very bad nail bitting. Sometimes when I bite my nails painfully short I stop picking for a bit but then they grow back and I try to stop biting my nails and picking my skin but I can’t do all at once.
Thank you for sharing your journey, struggles, and continuously speaking on managing instead of stopping. Focusing on this has truly inspired me. Over a decade of skin picking later and I'm finally starting to rewire my brain thanks to people like you. I hope you realize what a light you are in this world. Thank you. 💞
I have been picking/popping for 7 years now. It has done a lot of damage mentally , luckily I am able to bounce back from these episodes. I have 2 tiny pitted scars, just memories of when it all started. And as I have realized it is nothing to be ashamed of because it shows where I was to how far I have came. I still do it , but I am becoming more aware and doing everything in my power right now to stop it before it starts. My boyfriend is very supportive..he has held me while I cried after episodes where I felt disgusting and unworthy. He hides my tools that I would destroy my face with. I love him for that. This is a journey for me, it is here to teach me something. It definitely routes from my childhood and childhood trauma which I won’t get into. But one thing I will say is I grew up my mom in the mirror for hours each morning picking, and her even trying to pop bumps that I had no idea I had. So in that case I began to pay attention to it after that because she brought awareness to it being a part of my body and something I had to “get rid of.” Lots of times I would give into the compulsion and my brain would tel me that it was fine and that this is for the best if I get it all out and that it would be fine. And In the end I would be in tears. I wouldn’t want to be seen, so I wouldn’t leave my room. A mental place I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Now as of the past few days I’m trying the hardest I ever have to beat the temptation. It is very hard , but this is the one thing that has stayed with me through my childhood and it all began with trauma. I want to let that go and I am ready to. Good luck to you all , you can do this. Any amount of progress should be celebrated ❤️👏🏼
I’m 16 and for a year now I have been picking my skin everyday for like 3 hours straight. I pick at my chest and it looks like acne all over it now. I wanna cry everyday because of this and yet I keep doing it. It feels like I’m going through hell. I can never wear bikinis or singlets or anything cute because then people can see it. I hate it so much!!!
First person I’ve heard connect skin picking and eating issues . Skin picking started for me when I stopped restricting & purging as much. Skin picking makes me so much more sad and isolated than eating disorders did. I sometimes wish I’d never tried to overcome them as I replaced it with a worse habit in my opinion
I’m14 years old and have been struggling with this for a couple years, I started wearing makeup very young to cover up all the discoloration. I keep picking but and I want to heal my skin. Idk what to do 😭
ONE LAST THING - if you're enjoying my content on dermatillomania and would like to support my dream of becoming a trained online counselor and coach to help sufferers, please feel free to buy me a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/kimonskin - I appreciate your support SO much! Thank you.
I spent almost a week without picking but I couldn't stop anymore and went back to it 5 times worse. My friends and parents say I'm destroying my skin and to "just stop". I feel a bit lonely to be honest.... I think I still believe in myself and I'm pretty sure that I WILL be able to stop doing it, I have stopped and I'm going to look for professional help this time and I'll stop. I've already told some of my friends about my compulsion and I think I'm going through the right path! Thanks for having a youtube channel dedicated to this topic♡
more esandi Hey Esandi! Thank you so much for reaching out and sharing - I know how hard it is to do that. Take your time and try to be patient with yourself on this journey, I’m sure you will get there but releasing the pressure to stop will help 💗 managing it over stopping it - does that make sense?
I feel like I can't get over this
Anastasia Leonard Hey lovely! What do you mean? Does it feel like you can’t get over the skin-picking?💗
@@KIMONSKIN oh my goodness you answered thank you and yes I keep trying to get over it and keep failing over and over I just don't know what to do anymore
Anastasia Leonard I’m really sorry to hear this Anastasia. Has anything been effecting your mental well being recently, making you feel anxious and/or overwhelmed? Feel free to reach out to me on Instagram @kimonskin and send me a DM💗
@@KIMONSKIN thank you so much I definitely will
I realized that I mostly pick when I’m procrastinating or when I’m bored(usually watching a series) I just turn on the flash and I start picking
I know the feeling Faith!
Thank you for making these videos. I have always felt I was all alone until one day I found out about dermatillomania. I was so excited there was others like me, but then I realized people don’t really talk about it. It is so obscurely known that even autocorrect says it is spelled wrong when it isn’t.
My skin picking is paired with very bad nail bitting. Sometimes when I bite my nails painfully short I stop picking for a bit but then they grow back and I try to stop biting my nails and picking my skin but I can’t do all at once.
Thank you for this content. This video is what everyone in the skin picking community needs.
Thank you so much Mikayla ☺️
Thank you for sharing your journey, struggles, and continuously speaking on managing instead of stopping. Focusing on this has truly inspired me. Over a decade of skin picking later and I'm finally starting to rewire my brain thanks to people like you. I hope you realize what a light you are in this world. Thank you. 💞
I have been picking/popping for 7 years now. It has done a lot of damage mentally , luckily I am able to bounce back from these episodes. I have 2 tiny pitted scars, just memories of when it all started. And as I have realized it is nothing to be ashamed of because it shows where I was to how far I have came. I still do it , but I am becoming more aware and doing everything in my power right now to stop it before it starts. My boyfriend is very supportive..he has held me while I cried after episodes where I felt disgusting and unworthy. He hides my tools that I would destroy my face with. I love him for that. This is a journey for me, it is here to teach me something. It definitely routes from my childhood and childhood trauma which I won’t get into. But one thing I will say is I grew up my mom in the mirror for hours each morning picking, and her even trying to pop bumps that I had no idea I had. So in that case I began to pay attention to it after that because she brought awareness to it being a part of my body and something I had to “get rid of.” Lots of times I would give into the compulsion and my brain would tel me that it was fine and that this is for the best if I get it all out and that it would be fine. And In the end I would be in tears. I wouldn’t want to be seen, so I wouldn’t leave my room. A mental place I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Now as of the past few days I’m trying the hardest I ever have to beat the temptation. It is very hard , but this is the one thing that has stayed with me through my childhood and it all began with trauma. I want to let that go and I am ready to. Good luck to you all , you can do this. Any amount of progress should be celebrated ❤️👏🏼
I’m 16 and for a year now I have been picking my skin everyday for like 3 hours straight. I pick at my chest and it looks like acne all over it now. I wanna cry everyday because of this and yet I keep doing it. It feels like I’m going through hell. I can never wear bikinis or singlets or anything cute because then people can see it. I hate it so much!!!
You aren’t alone! ♥️ I totally feel you
Yess Kimi !! Great video thank you for sharing
JOYSTYLE You’re very welcome! Thank you for watching 😘❤️
Thank you for this !!!!
First person I’ve heard connect skin picking and eating issues . Skin picking started for me when I stopped restricting & purging as much. Skin picking makes me so much more sad and isolated than eating disorders did. I sometimes wish I’d never tried to overcome them as I replaced it with a worse habit in my opinion
I’m14 years old and have been struggling with this for a couple years, I started wearing makeup very young to cover up all the discoloration. I keep picking but and I want to heal my skin. Idk what to do 😭
CookiesxCream446 me too
We are fighting together ❤
We can do this❤️
what if it feels like there really truly is not patterns anymore. its all the time, constantly happening at pretty much any moment.
Thank you so much for this video 😭❤️
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raluca raluca Thank you for watching!☺️❤️