Are you involved with NAMI? I have friends who love it.
And this icon reminds me of a "stop smoking" video I saw once while waiting in a doctor's office. Guy is trying to stop, and is waiting in line at the bank, while a very slow customer dawdles through her business. His thought bubble: "the choice is simple: smoke, or kill."
I had no idea until recently that it was an anxiety symptom! Just goes to show that even when we think we're knowledgeable, we still can be clueless :D
Considering my stress level, I shudder to think what my scalp looks like right now. Ugh.
The problem is that I tend to pick while working on the computer, so I can't figure out what else to do with my hands while I'm stopping to think about things. I'm fine as long as I'm typing.
I can sometimes convince myself not to attack my scalp, if I'm very conscious of it, and if I use an anti-itch treatment on my scalp. But then my hands wander to other places - I have a bad patch of skin on my hip that I'll find myself picking at. Then lilacsigil covers me in bandaids and I move back to my scalp.
It's crap - this is the kind of behaviour that you see in caged animals. Just goes to show how much we sublimate this stress, when we don't even know we're hurting ourselves.
I was a lot worse, but while I was investigating ADHD and Aspergers (which I'm pretty sure I have aspects of), I read that dry skin and ADHD and retinal development are connected and that fish oil can be beneficial to all of those problems. So, I started taking 3,000 units of fish oil a day. I think, maybe, I pick less. Whether it's because my skin is dry, or what, I don't know.
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Also, your icon is FANTASTIC.
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And isn't the icon awesome? That cartoon made my day and I had to have an icon!
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And this icon reminds me of a "stop smoking" video I saw once while waiting in a doctor's office. Guy is trying to stop, and is waiting in line at the bank, while a very slow customer dawdles through her business. His thought bubble: "the choice is simple: smoke, or kill."
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You're not the only one. Sometimes I want to put on the oven mitts to stop my hand roaming up there. And it's definitely worse when I'm stressed.
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Considering my stress level, I shudder to think what my scalp looks like right now. Ugh.
The problem is that I tend to pick while working on the computer, so I can't figure out what else to do with my hands while I'm stopping to think about things. I'm fine as long as I'm typing.
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I can sometimes convince myself not to attack my scalp, if I'm very conscious of it, and if I use an anti-itch treatment on my scalp. But then my hands wander to other places - I have a bad patch of skin on my hip that I'll find myself picking at. Then lilacsigil covers me in bandaids and I move back to my scalp.
It's crap - this is the kind of behaviour that you see in caged animals. Just goes to show how much we sublimate this stress, when we don't even know we're hurting ourselves.
I was a lot worse, but while I was investigating ADHD and Aspergers (which I'm pretty sure I have aspects of), I read that dry skin and ADHD and retinal development are connected and that fish oil can be beneficial to all of those problems. So, I started taking 3,000 units of fish oil a day. I think, maybe, I pick less. Whether it's because my skin is dry, or what, I don't know.
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