Can't Stop Digging My Nails Into My Head Posted: 04-18-06 18:35pm
I know this sounds pretty gross, but i'm
wondering if I have some mental disorder
or something. Though i've never heard of
it and I can't find anything through
google on it.
So, my problem is that i'm 21 years old
right now, and ever since I was 13 I
haven't been able to stop digging my nails
into my head. Like I won't even notice a
lot of the time, and my head's not at all
itchy, but I just constantly keep
scratching my head and digging my nails in
so hard that I get bloody spots on my
head. One time I even got a bald spot at
the back because of it, and all I could do
was change areas and it eventually grew
back. I can't count how many times i've
tried to stop, and a few times i've even
managed to stop for a couple months, but I
always relapse. Even if I say right now
"i'm not doing it", within a second my
hand goes back to it by itself. Does
anybody know what's wrong with me?
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gabe101
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 6 Location: ontario,canada
Ocd Posted: 04-21-06 23:02pm
Hi umm im not a docter or anyhing im 15
actually lol but it sounds to me like you
have obsessive compulsive disorder ...I
think that would be a compullsion ...Do
you do anything else like count in your
head when you walk or are you really tidy
or do you wash your hands alot ...Thats
all I can help you with sry I couldnt help
you more
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mike9856746
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Joined: 15 May 2004 Posts: 67 Location: ,
Re: Ocd Posted: 04-23-06 04:06am
gabe101
wrote:
hi umm im not a docter or
anyhing im 15 actually lol but it sounds
to me like you have obsessive compulsive
disorder ...I think that would be a
compullsion ...Do you do anything else
like count in your head when you walk or
are you really tidy or do you wash your
hands alot ...Thats all I can help you
with sry I couldnt help you
more
i didn't know that could be ocd, but it
sounds possible. Ever since I was a kid I
had this habbit where I kept counting the
same expanding pattern in my head. I got
past that a couple years ago though, when
I started smoking pot actually lol.
Anyway, if you see the pattern:
1 2, 2 1
2 1, 1 2
2 1, 1 2
1 2, 2 1
over and over and over....
That and for many years if a door was even
slightly open in the room I was in it
bugged me so much I couldn't be in there
if it had to stay open for some reason.
Plus it really bothered me to have the
t.V. Volume on an uneven number, and when
I was stressed i'd find different things
to count to 5 with. I've always suspected
I have ocd because of that, but I didn't
think the nail digging thing qualified as
that particular disorder.... Interesting.
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gabe101
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 6 Location: ontario,canada
Ya Posted: 04-23-06 23:59pm
Ya ..Again im deffinitly no expert lol but
that is ocd I have it kind of aswell I
think everyone does a little like I count
in my head when im walking ...But yours is
worse ill explain ....... Ok well having
to have the volume at a certain number is
an obsession or if having the door open
bugs you that is an obsession after you
obsess about something your brain needs to
do something to get your mind off of it
which brings you to your compulsion
digging your nails into your head ...Hence
... Obsessive ...Compulsive disorder ....
I would go get medication before it gets
worse because ive seen in different cases
that people obsess about comitting
scuicide and then actually do it ...Like
instead of having to dig your nails into
your head you might half to take a
razorblade to your wrists...Do you know
what im saying ...Its simply an imbalance
in your brain that can easily be balanced
by medication ...And if you dont like
medication ( like me ) get a phyciatrist
and use phycotherapy ... I reccamend
phycotherapy because I find medication is
un-natural and I think medication messes
people up more lol well feel free to post
another reply if you need help with
anything ok ... I hope I could help
.......
Peace out
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liezab
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 2 Location: ky
Re: Can't Stop Digging My Nails Into My Head Posted: 05-16-06 12:48pm
So, my problem is that i'm 21 years old
right now, and ever since I was 13 I
haven't been able to stop digging my nails
into my head. Like I won't even notice a
lot of the time, and my head's not at all
itchy, but I just constantly keep
scratching my head and digging my nails in
so hard that I get bloody spots on my
head.
Ok....Ocd may explain it...But so would
staph infection....
First opened wound you pick
oozing........Get cultured asap.
Then you won't waste alot of money on
otherwise necessary counseling.
Ocd is maddening...But so is staph that
you think you imagine up past your own
mind to act out in body. I'd check
medical arenas first.
I have some ocd number things, but
I began breaking it up on purpose years
ago.
It works.
"you have to's"..Can be .."uh...No...I
don'ts"
like a 7 counting impulse can be
forcedinto 5+2....Just for the sake of
'breaking pattern by will....But not
because it is different than 7....For we
must do 7...And we know it.
Oh how hard it was at first. Don't
eliminate total compulsion...Just total
control of cumpulsion!
Start now like this.....
Change the injurieous compulsions...My son
named, ....... Them a 'negative
compulsion'..
..We almost addict to the hurt to which
we've grown so accustom, that we require
it to feel good. He ate his
thumb....Sometimes bloody.
That is why one must back it up
themself.
(or even with help....Its the same
thing...You do it!)
just to get back to ..."up being
up"....Give yourself to first a detour
compulsion less damaging
...Then keep changing it up by choices you
are empowered to make.
That's the beauty of ruling your
kingdom...(body).....
You can give you permission to do whatever
you want to do!
In neg-compulsions, however, ...It will be
the power to do first what you 'do not
want to do'....In order to get what you
want!
We do much better with it now....His
thumbs are fine...Not chewed.
Life hurts bad enough....You don't have to
dig or see blood for it to be real.
Pain is real.
Harm not thyself.
