Are you suffering from a habit that is with you for a long long time? do you want to break it but it doesn't go away? You know that this is harmful to you but still, you can not get rid of it? What should we do to break ourselves free from such habits which are harmful to us?
since how long your habit is with you and removing from your daily life has consumed so much of your energy but you still find yourself in the same place in terms of getting away from it?
be it procrastination or stressing too much, overthinking, fear, scratching your face, popping that pimple, or delaying every task till it became a burden. your closet is a mess, your room is a mess, you can not find a thing and you didn't even know where to look for it.
not going for a morning walk or gym even after convincing yourself, to snooze that alarm every time it rings. sounds familiar? we are suffering and still, every effort that we have made so far is not working out for us. we are tired of ourselves. trying to change ourselves since the beginning of time and still, we are nowhere near.
if this one thing got away from us that would be the biggest relief and still, we can not get away from it. it has become our shadow, even worst than that. shadows leave us in the evenings and this thing is with us 24 by 7.
I can understand your pain because I am going through that same thing myself. my bad habit is I scratch my face. even the smallest of pimples or even scabs or anything at all I remove it. I can not help it. and when I scratch it will leave a scar and again scabs and I can not stay away from that too. and this cycle goes on and on and on. I have smeared my face with residual pigmentation. I know it that if I stopped touching it slowly my face will be clear, but I don't. and it has taken the worst form. 20 percent of my face is covered with pigmentation and until I stop touching it I will not go away. even if I don't touch It might get a few months to clear but if I don't stop touching my face will be ruined forever. I can not look even in the mirror. I am suffering from low self-esteem because of it. every aspect of my life has been adversely affected by this. if I just stop touching it my problems will be over. every time someone asks me what happened to my face, I can not answer it. I have stopped going out in public places. I have started to hate shopping. I wish I could do what I am supposed to do. I met a psychiatrist. and he prescribed me medicine. what I understood from our conversation is that this is a lack of impulse control. a minor form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. he has suggested some tricks to control it. whenever you find the urge to do something which you don't want to do, just tell yourself 5 min after. and gradually the duration between each impulse will gradually decline. I have started implementing it. I can feel the difference. let's see what happens within 15 days. ill be surer to update it. stay tuned
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