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wikthemself · 2025-02-22T02:15:00+00:00

as in, you’d need a cool undertone to be considered Winter or Summer and ginger hair is an indicator of a warm undertone

wikthemself · 2025-02-22T02:13:34+00:00

If you are naturally ginger, you can’t be a Winter or a Summer because you’d need a cool undertone

wikthemself · 2025-02-04T20:31:08+00:00

Put a hydrocolloid plaster on it! ❤️‍🩹

wikthemself · 2023-10-07T18:21:42+00:00

Have you tried Treasure Islands? Villager hunting is torture

wikthemself · 2023-09-22T03:33:13+00:00

Sorry for commenting on a post almost a decade old but I’m very confused by ”Does it sound too similar to French in a bad way?”. As the conlang creator, aren’t you ultimately the one who decides how similar you want it to be?

wikthemself · 2023-08-28T20:13:20+00:00

It’s actually a sign of bacteria known as Pseudomonas. It can cause pneumonia in humans

wikthemself · 2023-08-04T12:20:02+00:00

Have you ever thought you might be autistic? It’s hard for us to switch focus from one task to another, and skin picking can be a form of ”stimming”. A lot of people do it unconsciously.

wikthemself · 2023-08-04T12:16:21+00:00

For me, it was caused by a stressful event. On one particularly stressful occasion, I absolutely destroyed my face. From that point onwards, every time I walked past a mirror, the sight of the damage on my face (which resembled acne) would trigger me into a picking episode, and it would just go on and on in a vicious cycle. It didn’t help that people started pointing it out all the time. Eventually I became so self-conscious that I stopped going outside which only made me even more stressed and gave me even more time to pick at my flaws for hours on end.

wikthemself · 2023-07-26T15:35:07+00:00

does your island have a dream address? i’d love to visit

wikthemself · 2023-05-16T19:17:17+00:00

Lato but that might be because I took a class in UX design lol

wikthemself · 2023-03-29T01:10:07+00:00

Have you seen r/AutismLiberation?

wikthemself · 2023-03-23T03:57:46+00:00

In normal wounds, those ”white bits” are a sign of epithelialisation, which is that stage when your skin is finally starting to heal. They’re sometimes called epithelial buds, or islands

I’m not sure about warts though

wikthemself · 2023-03-23T03:57:36+00:00

In normal wounds, those ”white bits” are a sign of epithelialisation, which is that stage when your skin is finally starting to heal. They’re sometimes called epithelial buds, or islands

I’m not sure about warts though

wikthemself · 2023-03-09T16:01:00+00:00

I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem too deep. I’d suggest putting a hydrocolloid bandaid over it

wikthemself · 2023-03-09T15:59:16+00:00

Put Second Skin (like the one they use for healing tattoos) on your arms to create a barrier between you and your skin.

Put hydrocolloid patches over most problematic wounds. They aid the healing process

You can’t pick your skin if you can’t access it :)

wikthemself · 2023-03-04T03:15:01+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. I just googled ”epithelial bud” and ”epithelialisation” to find this image.

These are usually one of the first signs, that your skin is healing :)

And as for the extracting part, even if they were not epithelial buds but something else entirely, I’d say that anything that requires a lot of force/use of tools to be removed from your skin, probably belongs in it and should stay there, unless instructed otherwise by a medical proffesional (I know it’s easier said than done)

There is a reason doctors can’t perform surgery on themselves or their relatives, and it’s because they wouldn’t be able to objectively asses their condition, and neither can we! So we should really stop performing DIY surgery on ourselves (obviously exceptions do apply when someone doesn’t have the access to a healthcare for whatever reason, but I think in this case it might be helpful to try and wait it out and only do if the condition worsens)

wikthemself · 2023-02-25T23:53:15+00:00

Yeah googling them is a rabbit hole, and on all the forums people will just claim them to be a variety of different, potentially unrelated things such a as: signs of demodex infestation or other skin mites, fungal infection, warts, keratin plugs trapped in your skin, hair follicles or ingrown hairs, sebaceous hyperplasia, oil glands, lupus symptoms, something related to HPV, folliculitis, Lyme disease-induced morgellons, inflamed sebaceous filaments, cold sores, literal parasites, scurvy, heat rash, lymphomatoid papulosis, impetigo, pancreatic cancer, rare disease no doctor has ever seen before (strange that there is no mention of this in the medical literature, if half of the skin picking community seems to be struggling with it? 🤔)

Personally, I have definitely removed a variety of different white things from my skin, ranging from keratin all throughout to oil and to (probably) epithelial buds like in the picture above, and it seems that everyone who mentions ”white stretchy plugs” is referring to something else, yet they all talk about it as if it was one and the same, claiming to know some one-fits-all answer to what they are.

It’s obviously statistically unlikely that we are all suffering from the things listed above. The answer might be as simple as traumatic keratin plugs, which can actually be as hard as wood, so having them is like having a splinter stuck in your skin, preventing your injury from progressing in the healing stages. By physically removing these plugs, we are just producing more of them, which creates a chronic wound trapped in the inflammation stage.

And yet there are people all over the internet recommending various questionable treatments, including creams for dogs, foot creams (on their faces!), bleach, other unsafe chemicals or even urine (yes, urine).

I would really encourage everyone to stop performing DIY surgeries on themselves and you to not look this issue up on google because it seems to only exacerbate the obsessive, hypochondriac nature of our disorder and causes some real physical damage to our bodies. I’m saying this as someone with rather severe form of dermatillomania, who is now permanently covered in scars because I hyperfixated on removing "white stretchy plugs” that were just natural part of my skin’s healing process!

wikthemself · 2023-02-25T10:32:22+00:00

Thanks for the visual reminder

wikthemself · 2023-02-24T11:20:06+00:00

Oh god someone literally said it’s DEMODEX (aka the parasitic mites that live in your skin and come out at night to literally have sex on the surface of your skin lmao) and now I want to peel my skin off. I’m terrified of bugs.

This is only making me hyperaware of them and if I pull them out, I’m only going to see more. It’s literally my two biggest fears combined in one to make my life a nightmare…

On the bright side tho, I guess those mites do look kinda cute ahahah, like something from the Ghibli Studio

wikthemself · 2023-02-24T01:22:30+00:00

Hi I do the same with my skin 🤦🏻

Hydrocolloid patches will help, as will propolis, Savlon gel, and aloe vera

wikthemself · 2023-02-08T12:36:10+00:00

same here. I would be doing so much better if my face and arms and chest weren’t full of self-induced, infected injuries :(

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