The Curse of Privacy

Ah, privacy. I love my alone time, but for pickers like me, privacy can be a curse. I do not pick when there are other people around, except for people who know me extremely well, like my immediate family. The kind of picking I do when I'm around my immediate family is very low-key compared to the kind of picking I'm capable of when I'm alone, though. I've tended to pick less during the times in my life when I've had to share more of my space and time with people. When I've had more time alone, the opposite's been true. Of course, surrounding yourself with people is not the solution to stopping picking. You have to be able to deal with the times when you are alone too.