The Personal Impact of Chronic Skin Picking

Hi you guys. A researcher got in touch with me a few weeks ago to see if I could help him recruit people for his study. I agreed. The more research we have on this topic the better. Please see his post below:
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The Personal Impact of Chronic Skin Picking: A Survey Study

Are you interested in helping researchers gain important information on skin picking? Dr. Douglas Woods and the Behavior Therapy and Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are conducting research examining the personal impact of skin picking. If you are at least 18 years old, pick/scratch your skin, and are interested in helping us gain more information about this problem, please fill out the survey connected to the link below. The information collected in this survey will be completely anonymous and this project has been approved by the institutional review board at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Additional information about this research and informed consent can be obtained via the link provided below. Thank you for your help!

Click Here to take survey

The Personal Impact of Chronic Skin Picking

Hi you guys. A researcher got in touch with me a few weeks ago to see if I could help him recruit people for his study. I agreed. The more research we have on this topic the better. Please see his post below:
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The Personal Impact of Chronic Skin Picking: A Survey Study

Are you interested in helping researchers gain important information on skin picking? Dr. Douglas Woods and the Behavior Therapy and Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are conducting research examining the personal impact of skin picking. If you are at least 18 years old, pick/scratch your skin, and are interested in helping us gain more information about this problem, please fill out the survey connected to the link below. The information collected in this survey will be completely anonymous and this project has been approved by the institutional review board at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Additional information about this research and informed consent can be obtained via the link provided below. Thank you for your help!

Click Here to take survey

Took the chat down

I took the chat down permanently today. There was simply too much sexual discussion and adult content in there. For the mission of acne.org and for the safety of the site, I decided to go ahead and remove it. This did not happen quickly. I tried to institute a new no-sexual discussion rule, but the rule did not seem to work well enough in curbing sexual and adult discussion. I also spent hours combing through chat logs to get a feeling of what was going on in there. It has become clear to me after doing all of this that we need to take the chat option down. I'm terribly sorry to those of you who used it respectfully, which represents the majority of chat users.

Thanks for your understanding. I hope this helps keep Acne.org a comfortable and safe place for young people. Please add your comments below as I am always listening to your feedback.

We have 100,000 members!

I just looked and we're at 100,005 members. Rock on you guys!

Starting today on the Chill Out Program

I'm starting the Chill Out today--the new part of Acne.org that I built to help people stop picking. I'm using it to stop biting my nails, which is pretty much identical to skin picking.

I just printed out my answers and my journal. I'm going to cognitive behave myself

I'll write in this thread and keep you posted of how it's going. It would be incredible if this worked since I've been trying to stop since second grade with no luck.

BEFORE pics attached