/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7566154
Sorry for leeching a bit off of your feel, but I hope I haven't done this to my boyfriend. He's recently started doing poorly in school, especially in his math classes. I think he failed it this semester with a 30, and this was his second time taking and failing the class. He wants to major in psychology and get a master's degree, but he's been broke his whole life (going through college on FASFA support) and this alone is a huge hit to his motivation. I sometimes get on his case about it, but... recently he broke down and told me nothing motivated him anymore, and he felt no passion for things he used to love nor does he have any drive to do anything. While talking I suggested maybe seeing the campus therapist sometime, but he doesn't see why he should. But... as someone diagnosed with depression, I could see a lot of myself in what he was saying and I'm worried about him. I just want him to succeed in life because I know he can, but I don't think I'm qualified to help and I certainly can't motivate him to put his all into his schoolwork...

This feel's kind of gross, just a warning.

Ever since I was a little kid (around 4 or 5 years of age) I've picked at my skin constantly. I usually do it at places that aren't gonna be outwardly noticeable to strangers, like my toes, But the place that gets it the worst is my lips. For over 15 years I have not gone more than a week without picking off dry scabs from them.

I've started building a lolita wardrobe and I'm happy with where it's going, but my damned lips hold me back from wearing it in public. In order for them to look OK and not gross and cracked, I have to pick the skin off all over again and wear lipstick or gloss, and the next day my lips will be dry and cracked again. It's a huge vicious cycle and I hate it.

I just want to have pretty lips. They've healed enough in the past where I know they're not scarred or anything once healed, but I can't even get to that point. I desperately want to be fixed of it by mid-Spring, when I'm gonna be modeling at a fashion show... but I know it's probably not going to happen. I'm seeing a psychiatrist in a month about some other issues, so I want to bring it up then... I just don't know.