Ok, so I know I am struggling with school right now and honestly its the first of my priorities I want to get straightened out, but for the past few years I've been compulsively picking at my face to the point where my mother, my grandmother and even my old nurse comment on it. (my mom is forever trying to get me to stop doing it)

I do it as a self-soothing behavior. If i am very stressed out, guess what, my face gets pretty messed up. I pick at scars/pimples/bumps on my face until they become wounds and then i pick the scabs off. (I know this may sound gross and I'm sorry if I am grossing you out)

The reason why I am posting about this is because I think it causes me imparement in my day-to-day activities. Like, it just makes me look weird to pick at my forehead or arms or legs...or back. It's just weird. It makes me look "absent minded" as my mother said to me.

Unlike other people who suffer from this, I do not use anything besides my fingernails. I know some people use actual objects like a scapel or a pair of sissors. I dont.

But it's still bad because it makes me look weird and probably makes me look as though I have something wrong with my head. Plus, it'd be nice to have nice clear skin again.

So this is something I want to work on and will begin to in earnest more over summer break.

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

Ok, mental list...

1) Improve school-work
2) work on skin picking