I am a 19 years old guy. I have like ONLY 1-2 BREAKOUTS IN A YEAR! Even when I was in my teenage years, I didn't have breakouts. All the bumps that you see on my face are self-created. There was nothing to start with. I IMAGINED that there is something and picked on normal skin and as a result created all this mess.
I've been skin-picking for like 18 months now. I'm an unconscious picker. I do not look at mirror while picking. In fact, if I look at the mirror I do NOT pick. I pick unconsciously while doing ANYTHING. And this is more harmful because I am picking 24/7 no matter whether I am studying or surfing the internet.
I KNOW that it is making my skin worse but somehow a voice inside my mind says that "just one more pick will make your skin flawless". Of course then I feel huge regrets. Also, if I have a date or something coming up I try to pick less. But if I don't have any dates nearby, I think "Well, no one is going to look at my face anyway, so why should I bother "not-picking"?"
Am I done for life? Or can these scars go away if I stop picking right now never pick again (I want to believe that I can do this!)?
It looks 3X as bad as it looks in the pics. It doesn't look as bad on camera.
First of all you can relax, your skin looks fine. I actually don't see any scarring (if its there it's very minimal), it looks like maybe you have clogged pores though. So look into something like an AHA for that and you should be good. Do try to stop picking though, your skin is good as of now but if you keep picking it could quickly turn bad. So like I said just relax and take it easy, your fine.