help, i can not stop!
1 week ago
help,my name is sidi morris. i can not stop biting my fingers skin. i
will give 100 dollar, to help me stop biting my fingers skin. thanks sidi!
How to stop biting my fingers
It made me
super strong 
"I WIN!! I stopped biting my fingers...YAY!"
How I did it: I joined this site just to let all you finger biters/pickers/pealers that it is possible to actually stop this horrible habit.
I have been doing this for such a long time that i cant really remember when i started. I also had the habit of picking my top lip, that little bit in the centre was constantly bleeding and as i write this i am sooooo glad that i was able to quit that nasty trick at the end of High School.
But stopping the finger biting was another thing all together. I have tried everthing possible and the one thing that did it for me was sitting down and really disecting WHY i did this. It is simply an endorphan release, in other words people smoke, drink, jump out of planes, race fast cars,... ect, to get that 'happy' feeling, for all of us poor suckers we pick the skin off our fingers (and probibly at least one of the above also!).I got to the point that i had to except the fact that i will always be living with bandaid covered fingers OR really really really try and stop....one last go.....so (and this sounds stupid and i felt stupid doing it) i sat on my hands. I found the worst thing was i didn' know i was even doing it till i looked down and saw blood so making a concious decision to sit on my hands when ever i wasn't using them made me aware of what i was doing with them. I would start with "if i can just stop for one hour i will be happy", easy goal to set and i won that one, then i upped it to "No biting till lunch" That was harder but manageable. The WORST thing that happened was that i lost my endorphen release and i was rock bottom in emotion for 3 days after i did my full day of no biting...really depressing stuff, BUT my body rearranged my brain to actually release the endorphans when i look at my hands and they are bandaid free.
Look, I still allow my self a brief 'peal' now and again (when you stop picking and your fingers start to heal the skin goes through a 'flaking' stage) but NOTHING like before and i actually dont like the 'sensation' of it.
If i can do this believe me ANYONE can and by god you feel bloody strong when you actually get that first hour with out picking.
Good Luck All.
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i really need some help here!
3 weeks ago
I HATE THEM! i dont even want to look at them there disgusting! please could somone give me some advise!!!
Almost there
3 weeks ago
I stopped biting the skin on my knuckles but i still bite the skin on the tips of my fingers and my finger nails. nobody has said anything about my knuckles because they look so much better. They are almost completely healed! I cant wait until they look like they’ve never been touched. Im almost completely away from this habit.
finally
4 weeks ago
ive been biting my fingers for as long as i could remember and i never knew why. i did it subconsciously but i found it really embarrasing because my fingers looked horrible. About 3 weeks ago, i got some acrylic nails on and through all the time i had them on i didnt bite at all. i probably thought they looked too pretty. now ive got them off and am hoping to not start biting again. i was surprised at how fast it cleared up actually. but now im happy for the while, my fingers dont look disgusting :)
Untitled
4 weeks ago
I have been biting my fingers lunstil thely were raw for as long as i can remember…...I need to stop and i’ve tried everything, i’m 20 years old and im afraid to put my fingers straight out in case someone sees them…....i had no idea so many other people did this…im going to try the lotion thing again…..and maybe wearing gloves that was working for a little while…..
I'm serious this time!
4 weeks ago
OK, so I’ve been doing this since I was a pre-teen, and I’m almost 29 years old. I was able to stop for 2 weeks last year, but it didn’t stick. It seemed that putting lotion on my hands helped the most.
I guess I will start doing that again along with regular exercise this time since it seems to be stress related. I can’t wait to be done with this, I’ve never been able to get a manicure in a salon out of pure embarrassment. I’m going to put a date on my calendar today 2 months from now for a salon day to celebrate my success!
back to square one...
1 month ago
i don’t know how it happened…
i just keep biting..
:( i was doing so well !!!
Back to square zero. . .
2 months ago
Well I posted on here before and said I quit for 5 days. Well shortly after that post I started again because of stress and school. I have had this problem for over 10 years now and I am 18 years old. I am always self-conscience about it and trying to hide my fingers. A few weeks ago my coworker asked about them and I couldn’t give her an answer, it was so embarrassing. If I beat this habit then I can be more socially normal.
Now that school is out I want to stop for good because I will be going on a mission soon. I can’t have this problem on my mission! I also have a girlfriend who surprisingly hasn’t noticed my problem so I want to quit before she finds out!
I will use fingernail clippers to clean out my nails whenever I feel the urge to bite. And I am going to put anti-biotic lotion on them every night to speed up the healing. This has seemed to work in the past. I also want to try using a nail file on the skin to smooth it out.
I hope to finally beat this horrible embarrassing habit! I will keep you updated on my progress. I am so glad that I am not the only one and we can all share this misery together.
Wish me luck!
my finger biting is getting out of hand
2 months ago
Everyone tells me to stop, my husband has had enough of seeing my horrible red fingers, my family tell me to take my hand away from my mouth, but its just impossible.
I have been biting and picking my fingers and thumbs for about ten years. I have these stubby red fingers now that hurt at night. I also bite my nails too far down regularly. They bleed sometimes and they are always sore and dry. Arrrggh help me stop!!!!!!
It’s just depressing when I find myself doing it.
I find putting vaseline on my hands before i go to bed helps, as does putting plasters on, but it makes my hands look very odd.
Sitting on my hands does not last. When I am stressed I bite them more, and then it’s just a case of getting rid of the peeling skin when I’ve finished. I stopped biting for about three months last year, and I even grew some long nails. It was great to show my hands off. Now it’s back to normal.
I think talking about this is helping more than anything. I am going to stop. I will post pictures and I can try and see the difference.
I am determined not to get counselling or pay for treatment for something I am sure I can solve on my own. Well done happness!
any one else have pictures?
2 months ago
this is my “bad hand” lol the other one has 3 gooood cuticles… i bet if i was left handed it would be the other way around… ughhhh
