1.If you're a compulsive skin-picker, you may go to great lengths to make sure people don't look too closely at your hands.
2.You watch as manicurists recoil in horror when you put your hands on the table.
3.Your friends and family sometimes have to rip your hands away from you when they hear your skin-picking noise.
4."Just stop doing it!" they yelp, and you look back at them as though they've suggested you leap over the Empire State Building.
5.You always have to have lotion at the ready for when your skin gets all dried out and easy to pick at.
6.Winter is the worst. Your skin gets super dry and it's just begging for you to mess it all up.
7.But at the same time, winter is great because you can bundle up and hide all your horrible skin from the world, if you pick at yourself anywhere else.
8.Unless, of course, you pick at your face, in which case there's almost nothing you can do to hide it from people.
9.You have to keep nail clippers, tweezers, or any sharp objects away from yourself because they only fuel your obsession for skin-picking.
10."Why are you wearing gloves indoors?" people may ask you. "Oh, no reason," you may reply.
11.But you can't wear gloves forever. Eventually they come off and you easily undo all the progress you've made.
12.You could be sitting in a meeting, thinking you're doing really well...
13....but then you'll look down and see that you've been unconsciously destroying your skin for the better part of an hour.
14.If you don't have Baid-Aids immediately on hand, you have to find discreet ways of hiding the fact that you're bleeding.
15.Finals, family functions, basically anything stressful is enough to make your skin your own worst enemy.
16.But once in a while you spot a fellow skin-picker, and you know you aren't alone.
