No More Cold Turkey!

Cold turkey was a disaster for me. Since I decided to try that I hurt myself pretty badly on at least two occasions and feel horrible about it. Yesterday while on the phone I squeezed at least a dozen bumps on my upper thighs, and late last night I picked at my arms, my stomach, and my chest. I stayed up so late that I'm exhausted this morning. Not the way I wanted to start the week. I will go back to trying to make slow and steady progress. This is really a struggle, but I still believe I can get over it. It may take longer than 3 months, though. That was probably too aggressive of a target. I will be happy if I can just reduce my picking by a little bit every week, and cut out the really damaging sessions.