Cuticle Picking & Biting: I need HELP ASAP!!!

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Hi, I've been biting and picking my fingers for as long as i can remember. I'm now 31. Every single one of my fingers is sore, sometimes so bad that when i touch something, or pick something up, my fingers hurt. I don't know when i started it and don't know why. I find that i do it more if i'm nervous, stressed, scared etc but also when i'm bored or just sat watching tv. I've tried the liquid plaster you can get, but found that i would pick that off and then just go back to picking/biting my fingers. My OH is good, he tells me when i'm doing it, as quite often i wont know until its bleeding or too sore to touch. I'm embarresed by them as they look horrible. I work with children and if they see them, or see me doing it, they obviously ask questions. I found that wearing a plaster on each finger works, but these don't stay on for very long and make doing day to day chores quite hard. Plus with my job, i'm constantly washing my hands. I have bought a 'tangle' toy, to try and keep my fingers busy by playing with that, but that didn't really work either. I'm still looking for ways to stop as they are getting worse and at the minute, this is the worse they have ever been. I have also found that wearing false nails stops you, but this is only temporary, so need something more perminant.

I too thought I was the only one who did this. We are all pretty good at hiding our hands so no one sees what we've done to our fingers! I'm 50 and started biting my finger nails when I was about 8. My dad put an awful tasting cream on my nails so I switched to biting the cuticle and skin around my fingers. It's an OCD as a result of abuse trauma when I was a child. I know why I do it, stress, anxiety, lonliness, fear and I'm slowly working on all those issues. I have a great debate going in my head when I see a flakey, dry piece of skin and the bad guy usually wins and I bite & pick till it's raw & sore then beat myself up for doing it. I regularly need to get a script for antibiotics from my GP to kill the infections I get in my fingers. I've tried acrylic nails but my body became toxic from the chemicals used so I had to take them off. I tried a toxic free false nail however they pealed off really easy and I went back to biting. I've had hypnotherapy which didn't work. A good quality hand cream helps to reduce dryness but then I have to remember to use it. The more work I do on developing my connection to spirit and finding out who I am is helping. I am biting less often and hope that as I move on my spiritual path I will one day be able to say I value myself enough not to do this to myself anymore. Hugs to everyone.

I'm passing this along onto the most recent threads. Don't lose hope!! Everyone should give this a shot, I'm going to pick up some NAC tomorrow. Its an over the counter supplement. On November 3rd, 2011 kgolden1234567890 said: I have had a LOT of luck with the amino acid N-acetyl cysteine, which is sometimes sold as N-acetyl L-cysteine, for my 11-year-old daughter who severely picks her skin (arms and legs). I'm hoping that everyone on this group will check it out. We started out at 1200mg each day, 600mg in the morning and 600mg in the evening. Then we worked up to 2400mg, 1200 mg in the morning and 1200 mg in the evening, within about 3 or 4 weeks. The study that was done in 2009 showed the best results were after 9 weeks of continuous treatment with this amino acid, also just known as NAC. We saw great results after 6 weeks. Please consider trying it. I am not a doctor, so please weigh out the risks for yourself. It has truly been a godsend. My daughter used to pick to the point of staph infections. She has scars all over her body. It works by regulating the URGE to pick. You can download the summary text of the 2009 study on this website - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19581567. The study was for hair-pulling, but skin-picking and nail-biting result from similar sets of urges.

Jenny, I understand your comments well. You are describing me. I am thinking about buying the book but I am not convinced yet it will help. Did you buy it yet? How is your cuticle obsession going? I don't even like referring to this on myself but I DO, chew and it has become ridiculously irritating to myself. I am trying to monitor the time I do it, presently, and see if I can STOP. It sounds like I need help.

I've been biting my fingers for few years if not a decade. I have not touched my fingers now for 4 days you know how!?!?! On our local news station they talked about "Flesh Eating Bacteria" I started to do research on this topic and found out that if you have a small scrape or scar this bacteria can attack you and you either die or have your arms or legs amputated. I naturally freaked out and told my self that I can stop. And so I did.. If you want to stop biting your fingers etc read up on "Flesh Eating Bacteria" and I'm pretty sure this will make you stop. My 0.02 cents =)

I'm 19 years old and have been doing this since I was probably about 7. It started as just biting my nails, but then it progressed to biting my cuticles and even the skin under that to my second knuckle. I have seriously chewed the fingerprints off both my thumbs and I always bite until it bleeds. I don't care how much it hurts, I just have to. My family always makes comments about staph and how disgusting it is. I know how gross it is, I hide it from everyone. My boyfriend and I have been together for a year now and on the days I see him, I smear Healthy Hooves (a really awesome protein cream they use for horses. It's an overnight fix for painful, bloody cuticles, by the way) on all day so they look better. It's just like I'm hiding a drug addiction and I feel pathetic. I wanna fix this, any way I can.

Since I was about 12 (I am now 28) I have been biting my nails (not just biting, but peeling layers of nail off as well) and chewing my cuticles and the skin around my nails. I don't usually spit the skin out (which most people say is where trouble comes in), but I don't really have the urge to eat it. I seem to do when I am tense, like when watching an action packed or an "oh my god, what's going to happen next" kind of movie and I also do it when I am just plain bored. I have tried to stop and have been able to for short amounts of time (like while wearing fake acrylic nails) but not for very long. I bite my nails to the quick and they are usually very sore, I tend to make my cuticles and the skin around my nails bleed. In the few short times I have attempted to let my nails grow back, they are incredibly weak and useless. I can bend them fully, so of course, I just go ahead and chew them off. I've tried the polish that is supposed to taste bad and all of that, but nothing works. I discovered one night that after I take polish off with acetone remover, that taste lingers on my fingers and I really couldn't stand that taste, so I decided to soak my finger tips a couple nights a week in acetone to deter myself from biting, but after awhile I adapted to the taste and chewed anyway. I did some research and found that their is actually a name for this horrid habit we share, Onychophagia. I also had someone suggest to me to look up information of "flesh eating bacteria" she told me she had once been a nail biter (not to my extreme) and once she had read information on this bacteria, she stopped cold turkey. I read the information and while yes, it is freaking and good incentive to stop, I haven't. It is good to know that their are more people out there who suffer from the same problem because for most of my life, I thought I was just a kid with a nail biting habit gone wrong.

I used to bite my nails all the time. Right now, Im only 13. But I would bite so bad I bled. I evebtually did stop because of the noise. Find something you find disturbing about it. It made mr stop when I heard the noise. Look at pictures of your nails up close. Try to disgust yourself into not biting.

warning: somewhat graphic photos of my severe nailbiting problem and my progress are posted as links here. if you're easily bothered by gruesome photos of the damage that nail biting does, consider yourself warned and dont open the photos. my habit was severe, and im here to share my story for all of those who have severe nailbiting problems and are looking for inspiration. i am a 25 year old female, engineer, who's fought a severe nailbiting habit since i was born. i've tried EVERYTHING over the years - the nasty tasting liquid to deter nailbiting, acrylic tips, wrapping my hands in bandaids because i bit them so far down that there was nothing left to bite, nailbed and everything, full cover glue on nails, sitting on my hands, antianxiety medication to ease what triggers me to bite, i've tried everything. acrylic tips seemed to work the best, but id find myself popping the nails off after a week without realizing just to bite whats under them, and this practice only made my habit worse. it got to the point where i bit so far down that no nail salon would dare attempting to put tips over my non existent nails, because there was just no foundation to lay an acrylic tip on top of, and in june of 2012, i hit rock bottom with this habit. i thought no one noticed my hands and how bad my habit truly was, but i realized shortly thereafter that people would look at my hands in disgust and never say anything to my face about it. then people started to confront me, and i started to feel even more self conscious once i realized that, when you have a nailbiting habit as severe as i thought mine was, its impossible to hide. everyone notices, and i'd catch people's eyes wandering, staring at my gruesome hands, constantly in pain, and thats when i decided i HAD to do something. heres a photo of my nailbiting habit at its WORST, this was june 9, 2012 (WARNING: this is what my nails looked like at rock bottom, look away if youre queasy): http://oi43.tinypic.com/fjdjsl.jpg so now you see from the above photo that i had no choice but to try something new after nail salons turned me away for acrylic tips. In july of 2012, a month after that photo was taken, i decided to try and teach myself how to do acrylic layover on nail tips at home, mostly because nail salons were opposed to helping me, and i was tired of spending $30 every week at a nail salon only for me to rip the tips off and bite whatever progress i had grown underneath them. after many failed attempts experiencing with different acrylic tip kits and mixtures, various sanders, buffers, and nail salon equipment in the comfort of my own home, i finally got pretty good at doing my own acrylic tips. after 2 months, i noticed my urge to bite or rip the tips off lessened as i started to cognitively realize how much time and effort went into doing my own acrylic tips at home. i know this solution wont work for all, and it wont be a feasible solution for many whose severe nailbiting habit is/was worse than mine, but it worked for me. there IS hope. im new to this forum, and wanted to share my story. as of this morning, may 25, 2013, i removed my acrylic tips and let them breathe. my nerves and nailbeds have tirelessly worked to regrow themselves after 25 years of abuse, and im proud to say that the hands in this picture are mine, not fake, not acrylic, but most of all, not PERFECT. but theyre getting there. heres a photo i just took an hour ago, all real, all mine, may 25, 2013: http://oi44.tinypic.com/volg1s.jpg for all you nailbiters, please do not lose hope. i documented my nail and nerve regrowth process over the last year in detail, and will share progress photos if anyone finds them useful for inspirational purposes :)

I need help! :( I had stopped picking my skin for a good while there and now it has randomly started to get sort of bad again and I've picked it a bit! :( going to Amsterdam with my boyfriend soon and I'm so worried because I really want my skin to be clear for that, any suggestions?