Well, now I have worked to find out what a kneaded eraser is and there is a link to an image of one that is way too large to fit into this reply box I found out the hard way. (he looks at the clock and realized 1/2 hour has since passed, and still is this not part of the insanity of MI and OCD to say the least.
I am not sure that this would help me with the cronic skin picking I suffer from currently a staph infection
yet anything is worth a try, so well I read the definition and had visions of using the kneaded eraser to not pick at only to absorb grease and possible extract blackheads.
I wish I could just joke about the part of using it to absorb grease from my pores but it is in my reality and is not even the axis 1 of my diagnosis'. Try as I may to laugh at my skin picking I just can not make a joke of it or such. Or any aspect of this disorder or the time consuming anxiety from it and such diabling aspects of it all.
I once had an infectous disease MD who said that until I trimmed down my fingernails to the point that they would not even scratch my skin in any manner. (imagine I did of an itch somewhere and no ability to scratch it with my own finger nails!) He said he refused to treat my back then Staph infection due to my neatly not stubs of fingernails. I bawled at his office and was traumatized. I could not believe an MD would put such ultimatums on my body.
I can understand trying not to scratch but to blatently tell a person not allowed to have finger nails? I had a casemanager not a T at the time that took his side, I asked her would she rather me pick at my skin or clip my nails down to the point that i devoloped more severe picking issues using an altrenative to fingernails like a metal ice pick or one of those compus pointy things used to draw circles to get the 'infection' out of my skin? she got pissed at me, called me insoburdenant and unwilling to try and I once again went picking away in tears as one MD refused to treat me and a case manager undertrained, underqualified added to my already confusion of this awful OCD condition.
(sorry out of order from the title but after an hour I am too tired to try to perfect this any more)
The
kneaded eraser (or kneaded rubber eraser) is also well-known. It is usually made of a grey or white pliable material that resembles
putty or
chewing gum. It functions by "absorbing" and "picking up"
graphite and
charcoal particles. It does not wear away and leave behind eraser residue, thus it lasts much longer than other erasers. Kneaded erasers can be shaped with the fingers and used for precision erasing, to create highlights, or for detailing work. It is commonly used to remove light charcoal and light graphite marks in subtractive drawing techniques. However, it is not well-suited to completely erasing large areas, and may smear or stick if it becomes too warm. Though it does not wear away like other erasers, it can become exhausted, unable to absorb any more graphite or charcoal in which case it will start to smear and actually make marks instead of erasing them.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ded_eraser.jpg
Moderators I apologize if doing this breaks any rules of the forum.
Thank you for listening and learning as I have now learned a bit as well.
krzyk101