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Old Nov 11, 2009, 01:06 PM
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For years I have had an urge to pick my lip. One spot on my bottom lip. It all started 9 years ago when my brother and I were wrestling (we used to do that all the time) and I hit my mouth on the arm of a chair and busted it. Well since that day I have picked and picked that spot. When I first started it was to get the ugly scab off. But then after a while it turned into something I did when I would get nervous or when I would have a panic attack. Now I constantly do it. I can't stop until I get all of the skin off of that spot. I have tried trimming my nails to stop or using chap stick. Even wearing long lasting lipstick so I know if I pick at it, it will mess up my lipstick. But nothing has helped. Now I have an ugly place on my lip (it looks like someone popped me in the mouth) and it is always sore. If I eat somethign salty my lip feels like it is burned. Nothing covers it. Not lipsticks, that makes it look worse. Or lip glosses nothing. And it hurts like hell but I just can't stop picking it. Even when it bleeds. The other parts of my lips look fine. It's just that one little spot. It's the only spot I pick at. I want to stop because my lip is ugly and I know there will be a permenant scar there.
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