Hi everyone, I joined this program about a month ago. At first, the logging really helped me with self awareness and I noticed a decrease in my picking. But, I have a tendency to not maintain habits after a while. I have been busy with school and rarely ever log, because I just want to avoid it.

My picking has flared up again, and even though I have set 2 daily alarms to remind myself to log, I always am in the middle of something and end up snoozing them.

I have also struggled to log because a lot of the time I am not even experiencing a negative emotion, its such a persistant habit that I often times can't even identify a trigger.

I am hoping once the semester ends that I will have more time and energy to put in enough effort. Does anyone have advice to how I can stay engaged? I really want to improve but I have a hard time sticking to things.

One thing that I have been occasionally doing that helps is sitting on my hand while driving or in any situation where I am alone and can do so without looking crazy haha. But I have struggled to find other ways to distract myself, fidgeting doesn't give me the same satisfaction.

I also don't want to replace it with other methods of stimulation, I want to eliminate that craving entirely and be able to sit still and relax througout my days.

I have been picking since early childhood, so I have been finding it extremely difficult to make progress. I also am not doing everything that I could be, though, due to stress and distraction.

I really want to improve, because I am tired of having sore fingers, growing wounds on my face, picking around other people, feeling the lack of self-control, etc.

I also get so determined to smooth out my skin that I get stuck in a trance and cannot stop picking or get myself to let it go, and I genuinely feel like I am being held hostage by my own mind taking over.

If anyone has experienced similar struggles and have found ways to reduce them, i would love to hear about it :)