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Lately, I considered writing a short post on skin picking, but didn't care enough to actually do so. Today, the topic presented itself again in a weird roundabout way. So here, then.
I was looking online for a round-edged cuticle pusher, not for using on my cuticles, but for appyling light pressure to the inside of my lower eyelid, to help squeeze out clogged meibomian glands. The old one I had (which I only used a few times) got a bit of rust on it after I left it sitting in rubbing alcohol too long.
So I came across the above one, but had never heard of the German company "Mehaz". On this page, I found that the actual company name is Giesen & Forsthoff. I browsed their website and found a curious looking implement called a Comedonen Quetscher. A "Quetscher" is a squeezer. "Comedonen" are pimples. It's a pimple popper! I had no idea there were implements made specifically for that purpose! In English, it turns out that they are more commonly called Blackhead or Whitehead Removers/Extractors.
On that topic, I had mentioned previously that after starting on the eyedrops & doxycycline for my eyelid problem, my skin broke out in acne/small pimples. 5 weeks after stopping the doxycycline, my skin finally cleared up and went back to normal. (Which means that I still have some small pimples, but not an overwhelming amount.)
That period of increased acne however, showed me that I never really "got over" my skin-picking problem. Rather, the more bumps my skin has, the more I pick at them. My skin-picking compulsion simply must have diminished due to my skin condition getting better as I aged. It's not that I have less compulsion to pick now, but that there's less to trigger the compulsion. Rationally, I still think that squeezing or scratching a pimple will make it go away faster than leaving it alone. Maybe that is the only difference between me and people who don't have the compulsion.
I was looking online for a round-edged cuticle pusher, not for using on my cuticles, but for appyling light pressure to the inside of my lower eyelid, to help squeeze out clogged meibomian glands. The old one I had (which I only used a few times) got a bit of rust on it after I left it sitting in rubbing alcohol too long.
So I came across the above one, but had never heard of the German company "Mehaz". On this page, I found that the actual company name is Giesen & Forsthoff. I browsed their website and found a curious looking implement called a Comedonen Quetscher. A "Quetscher" is a squeezer. "Comedonen" are pimples. It's a pimple popper! I had no idea there were implements made specifically for that purpose! In English, it turns out that they are more commonly called Blackhead or Whitehead Removers/Extractors.
On that topic, I had mentioned previously that after starting on the eyedrops & doxycycline for my eyelid problem, my skin broke out in acne/small pimples. 5 weeks after stopping the doxycycline, my skin finally cleared up and went back to normal. (Which means that I still have some small pimples, but not an overwhelming amount.)
That period of increased acne however, showed me that I never really "got over" my skin-picking problem. Rather, the more bumps my skin has, the more I pick at them. My skin-picking compulsion simply must have diminished due to my skin condition getting better as I aged. It's not that I have less compulsion to pick now, but that there's less to trigger the compulsion. Rationally, I still think that squeezing or scratching a pimple will make it go away faster than leaving it alone. Maybe that is the only difference between me and people who don't have the compulsion.