Yeah. I rock climb as my job basically, and my finger health is in the bin most of the time…
I had for a while. Not that bad though.
Then I started cooking for myself.Lol yeah. I stopped biting my nails and cuticles when Covid started, but now i just pick the shit out of my cuticles
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!
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.
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.
I used to get this all the time. Now, if I get a hangnail, I liberally drench my hands in lotion, and put on nitrile gloves for an hour or so to force it to soak in.
A family friend gets me Gojo Hand Medic, which my fragile masculinity appreciates.
I also found it works well for breaking in leather work gloves.
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 can’t believe nobody has suggested vitamin D deficiency. One person suggested vitamin deficiency and sure it may be more than just vitamin D, but vitamin D deficiency can make your skin dry. Specially the genitalia areas. Also you might have issues sleeping, bone density, teeth decay, ridges on your nails etc.
Isn’t that just people biting their fingers?
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.
No! Never! What the hell causes that? Is it a dry skin thing? Looks painful and disturbing.
Compulsive skin picking. I wish I could stop, but I can’t.
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
My sibling in Christ Please Drink Some Water
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
This isnt reddit: melanin
welcome to redditfication of lemmy.
Time to move on to telnet mud games.
Yo you playing Achaea? 👀
This isn’t reddit: malicious
Melinoma if what makes people have cancer
You’re thinking of melancholyMelancholy is what Hamlet had, I think you mean Melania
Melania is what turns people orange. You’re thinking of mitochondria
Mitochondria is the power house of the cell, you’re thinking of Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles is Hell’s Messenger, you’re thinking of malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne pathogen. You’re thinking of maltodextrin.
Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.
You’re thinking of The Moops.
Guys clearly you’re all thinking of the pasta sauce, Marijuana
Yore thinking of a feeling of sadness, I think the word you’re thinking of is Melania.
Dermatophagia is a bitch.
Get some of that nail polish that prevents you from biting your nails and tastes really sour and put it on your skin instead of your nails. It won’t stop you from biting necessarily but it will stop you from unconsciously biting.
This might backfire…I love sour candy
Meant bitter, not sour. There is no way anybody likes that taste.
But even if you do, for me it wasn’t ‘this is so disgusting I’m not gonna bite anymore’ but more my brain snapping out of unconsciously biting as soon as I realized the taste and then you get a brief moment to consciously stop.
Okay, but how do I trim and smooth out the skin irregularities near my fingers?
Also, where do I acquire the spare skin I need to eat?
Very relatable
- You don’t. It fixes itself.
- Acquire some roadkill and skin it.
Stop eating your cuticles, lol
Can’t stop. Won’t stop.
GameStop
Not all fingers, usually only 1 or 2. Now my left index and right thumb has these holes
POST PICTURES OF YOUR HAND
Your hands look like my hands. Have you been complimented on your lunula?
Great, now there are hands fetishists too?!
Show fingers
Post palms
Palm pre
How is that in any way shocking?
