Neurodivergent on Yik Yak | Any tips on skin picking/ literally gouging my skin out. I struggle with dissociation and am diagnosed with a condition relating to that and to “ground” myself I’ll scratch the shit outta myself. Not really the best thing and I’d like so fix that 🥹

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Neurodivergent 1d

Any tips on skin picking/ literally gouging my skin out. I struggle with dissociation and am diagnosed with a condition relating to that and to “ground” myself I’ll scratch the shit outta myself. Not really the best thing and I’d like so fix that 🥹

Anonymous 1d

I used to smoke (cigs and crack) and smelling salts and that’s always “help” this but I quit a few years back and that’s when the scratching started. I’ve been craving a good smoke since entering college and just trying to find some sort of non harming alternative that’ll still give me that fix I’m craving.

Anonymous 8h

I also struggle with scratching to ground myself/alleviate stress and one thing my therapist taught me that works pretty well is curling and scrunching your toes and holding all that tension for a while until it feels okay to release it. It gives me a non-harmful physical sensation to focus on and then the release helps calm my body and mind. Plus no one can really tell when you’re doing it so it’s not disruptive/distracting to do it in class. Lots of love and best wishes to you 🫶

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OP 15h

have u tried a hairtie and snapping it against ur wrist? u could do that for the same pain sensation or one of those spikey hand rollers. with the hairtie u could start rubber band, then hair tie, then scrunchie to ween urself off of the pain and be able to move to another stim?