Looking for advice on ec

Hi everybody I'm new to this forum.
21 female
I have hypothyroidism
Endometriosis
I have had gastritis before
I was anemic when I was younger
Anxiety
Stress


I had found this website not that long ago and decided to come her for advice. I have had ec for more than 10 years. I first noticed about 3 years ago ago when one day I was just thinking to myself how tired I was of ripping off my lip skin every day cause back then I just assumed I had a problem with chapped lips and didn't think much else on what i really was doing to them. I looked around online and found Daniel millers website about leaving them alone and that was one of the first things I tried but around that time i was just 18 and had moved out with my bf to our new apartment and so you can just imagine how embarrassing it was to have to talk to him about this and have him go through this with me while I leaved them alone.
Long story short I was very homesick, depressed about what I just realized I had on my lips and how I might not ever find a cure I became antisocial, insecure I stopped talking to friends I couldn't and didn't want to find a job and I haven't found a way since to manage them. 3 years later I barely started working nothing has changed I still peel my lips everyday lick them all day i apply Chapstick every once in a while.

For a while I was seeing a herbal Chinese Doctor he told me it was a ying yang problem something about the stuff I ate and how bad I stressed. I was doing acupuncture and taking his homemade pills, leaving my lips alone and also I was living back with my parents and I could honestly say they were getting better. But my bf came back from working away from home which made me go back to my habits of peeling them and then I moved back home with my bf which was far away from the doctor so I couldn't keep seeing him

So that's my story sorry it's long I don't have people to talk about this to my family and bf don't seem to realize what a crappy situation this is after 3 years no one has thought of it as important to help me get through this so it's nice I found this website to come and talk to people who really understand

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