It's all in vain

[Yennaa]

I think my jaw is about to drop off. My face hurts. I feel like peeling my skin off. I keep scrubbing it but it doesn't get clean. I keep scrubbing but it isn't enough. Maybe I should use a stronger exfoliator. I keep listing the things I own, I like, I keep editing that list, repeating it in my mind and it's so loud my head hurts.

[b1b1b1]

are you seeing a psychiatrist? If not, you should consider it as I think it would be very beneficial.

[Jeff1943]

Yennaa, as I often say: anxiety takes many forms but it is always still anxiety. It is always caused by chronic stress that eventually causes our nervous system to become hyper sensitive and in this state can cause us to have irrational thoughts and do irrational things we would never do before anxiety made itself felt.

Yennaa, in your case it has taken the form of an obsession about the skin on your face: the belief that it is unclean. So you are constantly scrubbing it and exfoliating until your face hurts and you feel your jaw is going to drop off. You can't expect anything else, the amount of cleansing energy you are directing towards your skin.

Of course, you probably knew all this before I spelled it out, but it won't make any difference. You will still carry on because your sensitised nervous system is calling the shots.

To remove irrational thoughts and deeds first look to the cause of the stress on your nervous system and neutralise it. Easier said than done of course but you should give top priority to removing the negativity that is causing your distress.

Then I suggest you stop the irrational acts, accept the inclination to constantly clean your face but do nothing about it. Engage in masterly inactivity whilst accepting the strange thoughts and feelings. We are allowed to have unusual obsessions just stop spending nervous energy on pursuing them further.

Through understanding, reassurance and acceptance you can regain the normal equilibrium of your thoughts and actions.