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“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”
[my art blog dedicated to everyday muses]I’m that scab that won’t heal, the spot dug deeper then gouged out, this million lines of red like a net of highways and rivers converging and splitting and crash into each other again. I’m that peeling raw skin on your lower lips, teeth meeting over me peeling peeling back all pink and stinging. Peeling the skin round your nails and round your nailbeds, hang nails and loose skin and more little lines of red. A starburst of red pinpricks fading to brown in the crook of your elbows, behind your knees. A million little obsessions in each pore and pit and abscess. A million little regrets with each peeling back of a clot. A million tiny scars and marks to small for the eyes to see.
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(also known as compulsive skin picking or CSP) is an impulse control disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pick at one’s own skin, often to the extent that damage is caused. Dermatillomania can be a compulsion of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).
People afflicted with dermatillomania find skin picking to be stress relieving or gratifying, though it can still be as physically painful as it would be for a non-skin picker.
Stumbled upon this in a blog about body acceptance,and it struck a chord coz I remember being a small child and always having scratches down my arms,quite serious scabs behind my knees down my calves and behind my elbows,my nails always bitten down and raw. And adults knew I did it but they couldn’t stop me. And till this day I still scratch and pick absentmindedly when I feel stressed or bored.
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