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I can't stop biting the skin around my fingers. I need help.?

  • For almost as long as I remember I have been a nail biter, which then escalated into biting the skin on my fingers. I used to only bite the nail, but since the nails never get long enough to bite I resort to biting the skin. It has got way out of hand. All 10 fingers are completely ravaged. It looks disgusting and I know they are completely scared. I bite all the skin all the way down to the first knuckle, even the back of the finger. I don't know why I do it either. It's not like I'm nervous, or anxious. I just do it and even when I'm telling myself to not do it, I continue to do it. Most of the time I don't even realise I do it and look down and my fingers are bleeding. It's so embarrassing and painful. The thumbs get the worst of it which are completely red and scared over the entire upper part above the first knuckle. I need to stop. I have to hide my hands from everyone. It's embarassing to shake hands with people, meet girls, and just talk to people because I think they are constantly looking at my fingers. I'm 17 and a Junior in highschool. Are there any ways to stop what I'm doing. I almost beat it once. I hadn't bit my thumbs in the longest time and they were healing really well but were very very scarred. But they looked so much better. But then I moved onto the tips of my other 8 fingers, which now are so chewed I am in agony half the time. Even while typing this I have to force myself not to bite them. And now I have relapsed fully and my thumbs are bad again. I get anxious when I don't bite them. Please help in anyway you can

  • Answer:

    I think you should seek professional help. Your anxiety might be a problem that needs to be worked through.

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put a loose bracelet on your wrist. when you have the urge or find yourself starting to bite your cuticles or nails start sliding the bracelet thru you fingers . it will spin around your wrist and give you something else to focus on.

Audie

I do the same!!!!!!!!! Its the cubicles I believe. I just try to force myself to not do it. When I catch myself, I make myself stop. I think about how much better my nails will look when I stop.

Violet

Soak them in something very bitter or spicy.

Philip Santucci

There is one simple trick you could try because it sounds like you really want to stop. Put an elastic band on your wrist and every time you catch yourself doing it, snap the band an think "1,2,3 go" and go on with doing something else. I know it sounds silly but it is a good way to break a habit. In the first few days you will be snapping the band constantly but you will end up doing it less and less! Let me know if you try it! Poundcake613@yahoo.com Good luck man!

poundcake

the reason you do this is most likely a result of an anxiety disorder. . you can attend to this one aspect of the problem by averesion treatment. ask at a pharmacy where you can by something called bitrex sp. this is the stuff that is the most bitter tasting thing on earth . they put this in many things to keep mostly children for drinking what ever it is. you can dip your fingers in this i dont know how often you would need to do that but whatever you will work that out. then every time you bite your skin you will taste the most bitter thing on earth and soon very soon stop this behaviour for good. you may have to ask a number of pharmacy places most likely the large one and i think i spelt it wrong however you can google it the most bitter taste in the world and like i said substance put in things to prevent children from drinking it .

Will

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