I'm doing 20 things
For anyone who is trying to beat this, I looked through various help sites for dermatillomania + self-harm sites and came up with this, hope it is of use!: http://tinyurl.com/cspfree
MoogleFan's Life List
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1. Get a new job
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2. get my motorcycle license
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3. Lose 10 pounds
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4. graduate from college
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5. get into university
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6. learn Shogi
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7. complete Remembering the Kanji 1
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8. finish unpacking
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9. write a book
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10. design a tarot deck
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11. Trade some ATCs.
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12. find out my blood type
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13. Visit Japan
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14. visit Wales.
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15. Visit Egypt
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16. drink absinthe
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17. buy a Vespa
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18. buy a sitar
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19. meet Dennis Cooper
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20. Pass JLPT Level 5
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How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: I picked a specific rule set to learn (Hong Kong is good for beginners) Played the practice tables at the Mahjong Time website until I kept winning Bought a mahjong set and studied the different types of tiles and hands - I plan to play with my bf next time he visits me with a two player variant. If you spend a week playing it every day, you will definitely pick it up! It is easy to get discouraged at first ("why can't I declare wh… Read how I did it…
It made me
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How I did it: It took me a bit to come up with the 'perfect' tracklisting, but then I thought, the more unique and personalized it seems then the more likely someone would be to like it! :D 15 songs and 15 artists later, I made a cover (pictured here) with a suggestion for the finder to leave a mix somewhere, too! I made it into a project of sorts, MIX ON A BENCH, and talked about it on my blog A Future in Noise! Read how I did it…
Recent entries
I’ve decided I might periodically write entries about this since it’s one of my top goals, plus there’s such a hopeless vibe about it out there – I don’t want to deal with this ‘one day at a time’ for the rest of my life, I want to eliminate it! Right now, I’m reading this book called ‘Changing for Good’ that has helped me a lot already; it’s about progressing through stages in order to break away an addiction / bad habit…I would highly recommend it: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46680.Changing_for_Good I’d found a group on Livejournal about dermatillomania as well: http://community.livejournal.com/csp_support/
I tend to refer to it as CSP ordinarily though since thinking of it as a disorder of some sort seems to block me from actually changing it. I think it’s a blend of obsessive compulsive checking, body dysmorphic perception, and self-harm (at least in my case) – I’m sure there might be some genetic or mental predisposition towards choosing this habit, however I don’t think it’s impossible to stop – besides, even reducing the habit would be better than escalating it, which is what I am aiming to do. I’ve been dealing with this since I was 11 or 12 and I am 20 now, though I only found out there was a term for it around 17 or so, so I’ve not been actively working for change all that long!
And it’s always worth it to read at least one good book a month. Any time I go on a hiatus, just for a little while, I get bored and start looking for something to read again!
