Aahhh, plucking my fingers. It’s so ingrained in my head that there is some special separate process (that I don’t control) in my brain taking care of this.
My wife will slap my hands when I do it because I asked her to help me stop it but even when in my head I’m like “stop. It. Now.” then one hand just moves to the other and starts plucking and I’m like “wtf, I said stop!”
The one thing that I’ve noticed that helps is prayer beads. I’m atheist, but they work wonders to occupy that little process in my head, I redirect all it’s attention to those beads and so with one hand I’m moving the beads one click forward every half second or so all day long. That works!
Cover each of the tips of your fingers with a bandaid. It will stop you from biting them. Replace as needed. If you remove the bandaid so you can bite them, you have a psychological issue you need to address, usually stress related.
Ooh I know a fun fact about this one.
In Turkey, carrying prayer beads in public as an old person means you are in a gang, while young person means you are a gang wannabe.
Similar to certain tattooos and hats in other countries.
Not since I was in my early 20s, and it seems like it’s more common with young people.
Young skin,
dry and thinKids these days with their thin skin… Smh
I did until like a week ago.
I’d had enough as they hurt and wasn’t getting better, I do a lot of rock climbing so the chalk makes the issue worse, plus I have not been doing great mentally so diet and hydration was awful.
What I did:
- Bought some Nails Inc Cuticle Oil (I am male, but it works). You just add a bit and rub it in. I now use this most days and definitely after climbing.
- I know that with a poor diet I am likely missing vitamins as some of my nails had lines down them. I take a cheap multi vitamin everyday.
- I am conscious to drink more water, although I already drink 2-3liter a day.
- I am making plans to improve my eating habits as I get decision fatigue and really just don’t eat enough. Think I’ve been alive too long that food is just meh at this point. But I went climbing yesterday on hardly anything and felt incredibly sick.
My nails are better now. My mental health not so much but one step at a time.
I’m positive 95% of your results came just from drinking more water. when your hands look like the picture, it’s almost definitely because you’re chronically dehydrated.
I am not so sure. As I said in the post I drink a lot of water.
So I wake up and have a cup of tea and for evening meal I have a can of Pepsi. Everything else in the day is just water and never less than 1.5 litres.
For me at least I think it was the climbing chalk and poor eating habits so lacking vitamins. I guess I’ll never truly know and it’s good advice to be hydrated.
nah, it’s usually hand moisture that causes this. if you do a lot of stuff that dries your hands out, you’ll get it too. climbing chalk can do that. I also said 95% is hydration. vitamins can also help.
I think the vitamin deficiency is more likely, I have similar issues. Lived in Phoenix for years and had a water bottle on hand all the time, it’s a part of the bigger picture but not the main driver I’d surmise.
Comment to find this back later! I’m over 40 and just accepted my hands being fucked up as part of life.
Here is the current progress. The first one is from 2nd May and the second is today. You can see there has been significant improvement and they are not sore anymore.
You gave me fairly panic with that nail lines constant and I just had to go look it up.
No, nails having lines going down them is not necessarily a sign of vitamin deficiency. Turns out that the majority of the time it’s completely harmless and a sign of aging. Both index fingers and my right middle finger have a very faint dark line going from cuticle tip.
Your mileage may vary, IDK about your personal diet etc. just wanted to chime in about the nails thing
Interesting. Thanks and sorry for scaring you.
I would note that mine are on a single nail and less lines and more defined ridges where you can run another nail over and feel it bumping across.
No need to apologize!!
I thrive on neurotic energy??
Well I’m always looking up things that were in so knowledge is power and all that
Yeah; when those lines are horizontal – though –, you may want to worry. But vertically, usually not.
I didn’t know about the nail ridges-vitamin deficiency thing until my lady told me recently, makes sense. She got me a case of the ensure plus for extra calories to supplement through the day and it does help. Eat some veggies, get some sunlight, maybe go to a shelter and walk some dogs. Hopefully the physical elevates the mental, I’m in a similar spot and hope you get feeling better internet stranger 👍
Thank you for this.
I already do plenty of walking as if I didn’t I don’t think I’d be here honestly. I might look into ensure as I’ve had them from the doctor when my diet has been poor in the past.
Don’t know if you’re the same but life’s like a rollercoaster man. One minute I’m doing good and mentally happy the next I can’t get out of bed and off YouTube.
It’s like I’m just passing as much time as possible with no end goal in mind. Just death at the end.
Sorry for being dark.
You can always trust SatansMaggotyCumFart to chime in with the wholesome memes.
Just put some nail polish on your fingers to prevent it from happening.
My girlfriend does this to me during sex. Peels me like a disobedient potato
Please cease existing.
Ok. Where did I put my eye gauging spoon.
Kind of reminds me of peeling a banana.
If you peel it from the other end you don’t get strings. My department in college had a thing about it to the point I don’t like bananas anymore.
I gotta try that.
Wait until this happens to your foreskin.
😬
Lol yeah. I stopped biting my nails and cuticles when Covid started, but now i just pick the shit out of my cuticles
Interesting how much people don’t understand. So for u normies, non autistic people here: NO , the skin doesn’t get like that by its own, it’s not moisture, cream or anything, it’s just we can’t stop messing with our thingers and constantly damage the border of nails like that.
just to be clear: not all autistic people do this
Cringe
Problem solved
You joke, but I’m missing a nail on one of my big toes and it’s so much more comfortable and less hassle that I kind of wish all my toenails were gone.
…not so sure about fingernails though. They’re pretty useful for picking things up or praying things open.
I’ve got one fucky nail and every two weeks I’ve gotta pull it with tweezers because it grows in cup shaped and the point of the cup is too pointy for my delicate toesies. I’m thinking about burning it off with silver nitrate.
So when you say pull it with tweezers… You mean pull your nail all the way out??? Doesn that hurt how the hell do you do that?
I clip it all the way down to like 1mm². The nail is cracked in half already. Also pulling a nail is like a 2/10 unless you do it slow then it’s a 4.
Years back I was briefly into creepypastas. One I read was a guy who had a habit of chewing his nails and that people around him always made a big deal about it but he thought they were overreacting. At the end it was revealed that he had long ago chewed away his fingernails and was now chewing through his actual fingers without realizing it. As a result he was institutionalized for his delusions, I think.
This picture makes me think of that. Thanks, I guess.
When you refuse to give answers when tortured! You clearly are no rat. 🙌
No.
The perfect hand doesn’t ex-
Please tell me this is AI
How did you get that photo of my hand?
Fuck you.
Just fuck you and quit attacking me
Go rinse them fingertips in vinegar.
Stop eating your cuticles, lol
Can’t stop. Won’t stop.
I used to chew the skin from my finger nails a lot as a kid, not much nowdays, but still do sometimes, I doesn’t happen on its own
This appears to be a lack of melatonin. When you get sun, there should at least be some pigment.
Melatonin is what makes people sleep
You’re thinking of melinoma
Melinoma is what makes people have cancer
You’re thinking of melancholyMelancholy is what Hamlet had, I think you mean Melania
This isnt reddit: melanin
welcome to redditfication of lemmy.
Time to move on to telnet mud games.
This isn’t reddit: malicious
No! Never! What the hell causes that? Is it a dry skin thing? Looks painful and disturbing.
For me it is biting and chewing the skin around.
When it bleeds I also drink the blood.
Yes, I’m a vampiric who selfcanibalizes myself.
One day I will evolve to Ouroboros
Compulsive skin picking. I wish I could stop, but I can’t.
Am I not the only one? Most people I’ve heard of eat their nails. I’m the only one I’ve ever known who chews on his cuticles.
Moisturizer
Get a brand called Cetaphil and use it on your hands every day or whenever they dry out.
I’ve worked in construction and I like working as a mechanic in my own vehicles … it means my bare hands get exposed to a lot of dirt, sand, mud, metal, oil and chemicals … which means I have to wash with lots of soap and chemicals. In the winter it’s worse in the dry cold air.
So my hands get dry chapped and even cracked and start bleeding. My skin is so cracked and broken now that I can no longer use my finger print ID on my phone. I’ve tried resetting it multiple times but a new crack forms and then no longer works again.
For years I put up with it and pretended I was a man that didn’t need help … but I got sick and tired of it and started using moisturizer and I really don’t care what anyone says about it.
I still get dry cracked skin but not as often and not as severe.
Pain relief O’Keefes. Stuff is miracles.
Am electrician, I carve my hands up all the time.
I tried a bunch of them including O’Keefes but I’m allergic to something and I’ve had the skin on my hands break out in blisters. I can abuse them with motor oil and auto chemicals but if some weird skin lotion ingredient gets into a crack in my skin, my skin literally just starts to break down for some reason.
Cetaphil is the only one I’ve found that doesn’t have any weird ingredients … it was recommended by the dermatologist that treated me during a really bad break out. Haven’t had a problem since.
Ah man that must suck. At least you found something!
I swear by O’Keefes “working hands”
It’s one of the few moisturisers that doesn’t leave my hands feeling greasy
I have similar problems and have found many solutions, but Vaseline and cotton gloves overnight are freaking amazing. Kinda gross though. It’s like the nuclear treatment, afterwhich normal moisturizer works for maintenance.
I don’t blame you … when your skin is literally melting into blistering flesh, you will try anything to save yourself. I remember when it first happened about 15 years ago, it went from a small open sore to full blown skin melting all over my hand, forearm up to my elbow the reaction was so strong. I was bandaged up to the elbow for about a month before I saw a dermatologist and it was scary because I thought I was done for and that it would only get worse.
So any nuclear option that is gross, ugly, weird or just strange is fine by me as long as it works.
Like the old saying … ‘If it looks stupid but it works, then it isn’t stupid’
Cerave is even better than O’Keefes
