EllenCherryCharles
Greenlighter
Hey everyone, I am an on and off IV heroin user. Generally speaking, I have an obsessive compulsive skin picking obsession, whether or not I am high. Its not so bad that I have lots of ripped off skin or anything like that, but I do pick at the skin around my fingernails pretty obsessively. Its a symptom of anxiety that I have experienced my entire life. It waxes and wanes - on days or in moments where I am experiencing a particularly high level of anxiety, I pick at my skin more.
However, ever since I began using opiates years ago, I noticed that when I am high I extremely obsessively pick at my skin, in one spot in particular. Its interesting to me because when I am high, I am not experiencing anxiety - and least not on a noticeable physical level like when I am sober. But when I'm high, I literally cannot stop. There is one spot in particular on my index finger that I have picked at for ages. I pick at it until it is impossible to pick at anymore, and then I just apply pressure to it excessively to make it hurt. Weird, I know, but it's that kind of enjoyable pain like scratching an itch.
Does anyone else experience this? I would include a picture but I don't know how =/
However, ever since I began using opiates years ago, I noticed that when I am high I extremely obsessively pick at my skin, in one spot in particular. Its interesting to me because when I am high, I am not experiencing anxiety - and least not on a noticeable physical level like when I am sober. But when I'm high, I literally cannot stop. There is one spot in particular on my index finger that I have picked at for ages. I pick at it until it is impossible to pick at anymore, and then I just apply pressure to it excessively to make it hurt. Weird, I know, but it's that kind of enjoyable pain like scratching an itch.
Does anyone else experience this? I would include a picture but I don't know how =/
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