I'm so sorry to hear that there are so many of us struggling with these issues
I mean - it's good to know that we're not alone, but at the same time it's hard to read your posts and realize that all of us would like to quit so bad, yet it's such an uphill struggle...
A big shout out and hug to you all!


@BlessedRhiannon: that's interesting to hear, that you were also very medication-aversive at first! But did you have an official OCD-diagnosis before you went to talk to that doctor? Cause I'm not sure whether I would dare walk into a psychiatrist's office and say "I pick my skin and I've self-diagnosed this as OCD. Now give me anxiety meds! *slaps handbag on table*" Or is that how it goes?

And do you need to have other OCD symptoms as well, like locking and unlocking your door 5 times whenever you leave the house? (Hmmm I get the feeling I'm stuck with a rather prejudiced or untrue image of what OCD actually entails, though?)
Or do those meds also help for feeling anxious in general, like when you get verrrrry stressed out / scared / worried about tiny things, fret about them all the time and have huge amounts of stress? Because that's definitely something I do :-/