I decided to write this blog when I searched the web for the success stories of skin pickers and found a lot of people struggling on the path, but very few uplifting or inspiring stories.
What I was hoping to find was a story of someone who had stopped picking and had amazing results to share. I wanted to know how long it took for them to get through the worst of it and how long it took them to break the habit. I wanted to know if their scars were fading and how long it was taking. I wanted to know what caused them to change and how it was affecting the rest of their lives.
What I found instead was a lot of people like myself, begging for someone out there to share this hope with them. And I found a lot of medical information from an establishment looking to create profit for themselves. It was so discouraging to see a message board with someone begging for help and hope and support, filled with responses from analytical doctors giving them gobbly goop information about "blah blah, this is your disorder and you have to take an antidepressant and blah, blah". We live in a world of the medical industrial complex, where there is constant pressure on us to ask our doctors and just take a pill and all will be well.
In my journey to healing I have tried to find a way to avoid this system and trust myself.
So I've decided to write this blog and document my journey and hopefully help someone else out there in the world looking for this type of story. And maybe help myself in the process.
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