11 ways to stop popping pimples
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The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology published the results of the study : prohibitions and self-control do not work. And it doesn't matter how well a person is aware of the consequences. Everything happens unconsciously, without control. Immediately after squeezing, there may be a short-term relief (illusion of control – I can control my breakouts), but it is followed by a new cycle of frustration and guilt (I couldn't control myself again, it got worse).
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1. If you feel that you are under stress and that there is a risk of starting to split/squeeze the large one, put on light cotton gloves. It is easy to implement at home, and it is at home that everything usually happens.
2. If wearing gloves is completely inconvenient, you can cover the pads of the fingers and nails with plaster or tape.
Even at the level of consciousness, you will better monitor each attempt to “peck”. Because usually awareness comes only in the process or even after.
3. Squeezing pimples is an attempt to get rid of imperfections. Replace it with a new healthy habit – apply an anti-inflammatory serum to the inflammation. Mix 10 drops of myrrh, bergamot, monarda and black cumin essential oils in equal proportions and apply the mixture pointwise to the rash. You can do it several times a day.
4. Do not look in the mirror often. Never look at your skin through a magnifying glass. No one sees her like that, and you don't have to.
5. Use anything that reduces stress: a walk, sex, TV series, aromatherapy, bath, book, yoga, breathing. Basically, whatever works for you.
6. Do not use cosmetics that clog pores. You should not provoke yourself additionally.
7. Keep your nails short. At the same time, cases were described when nail extension helped someone – it made squeezing uncomfortable.
8. Some people are helped by pimpple patches – such mini-patches that need to be glued to the rash. But this is not the best way to organize the skin, but of all evils, you have to choose the lesser, and it is better to stick a small patch than to destroy the capillaries, get an infection and walk around with a red face.
9. Simpledimplepopitsquish and that's it that's it. Choose any object that will help occupy your hands and train yourself to click, squish, squeeze until the urge to squeeze passes.
10. Ask your loved ones to let you know that you have started picking at your skin without being noticed by yourself. This will help to increase consciousness.
11. For some, the @drpimplepopper account has become an alternative to squeezing, where you can endlessly watch the squeezing process. You know how people with eating disorders love to watch cooking shows? This is the same sublimation here.
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