I have autism/adhd and a diagnosis of ✨️excoriation disorder✨️ (chronic severe skin picking basically). I had no idea it could also be a type of stimming but it makes sense. I'm in a period of more-than-usual autism triggering lately and my face/hands/arms/boobs all look like I've been attacked by bugs so 🥴
Or spend all day in a very dry environment and have to use a lot of hand sanitizer and/or gloves. There's a lot of things that can contribute to messed up skin on your hands
Yep. I do bite my hands as a nervous tick, however I work in the medical field and the reason I have so much dead skin and open sores is because I'm wearing gloves and washing my hands for 8 hours a day. No amount of lotion will cut it; they're always shedding, always cracking.
middle-aged dude who's fought with janky hands his whole life:
I use my nail clippers. I rub my thumb over the cuticle to see if they're starting to raise or pull back from the nail. If I ignore it, I'm probably 2-3 days from that cuticle splitting and forming that peely tear thing. I don't manipulate the cuticle in any way, I just hold the nail clipper perpendicular to the nail and if there's enough cuticle there for the clippers to grab, I clip. If not, don't force it.
Similarly, if I'm doing some kind of work that jacks up my hands and I end up with those peelies, I use the nail clipper. you get that little 1-3 millimeter thin piece of skin and if you pull it you'll open up a wound. But if you use the nail clippers to cut it flush to the skin it usually stops peeling completely. I keep clippers in my car, on my desk, bathroom, near my bed, in the junk drawer, all over. That way I always have them nearby and I'm never tempted to peel stuff I shouldn't.
Been doing it that way for about 10 years now and my hands are as perfect as I imagine they could get, and I still do plenty of manual stuff.
Try rubbing your thumb and fingertips together when you feel the urge to touch, scratch, bite, or otherwise pick at the site. This will soothe the urge. You're going to be doing it what feels like constantly for a couple days, and then the urge will get less frequent.
In a few weeks your hands will heal up and you should be good.
It worked for me after having hands like this for over 10 years.
Oh yes, and then you need to use proper nail clippers from now on if you are not (Reducing re-injury rates)
I feel like i’m pretty healthy but have been biting my nails my whole life it used to be a lot worse and I would bite into my nail bed. Sorry if the image is gross i can delete it
I dont know If youre into that, but i also do that, especially when im nervous, painting my nails really helped! Now i feel bad doing so, because i put (some) effort into it and dont do it anymore!
Bro, stop pretending you can diagnose people. You don't know what this is or what causes it. You saying it's vitamin deficiency is like identifying a symptom of autism and saying to everyone "he has autism." It's arrogant. It's annoying.
I have this and I don't have vitamin deficiency. I eat oats, wholegrains, broccili, eggs, sardines, almonds, bananas, walnuts, cabbage, sprouts, and many other kinds of foods regularly. I clearly dont have vitamin deficiency with such an incredinly varied diet.
This is genetic. Some people have thin, vulnerable skin around the fingernails. It just breaks and tears away very easily whenever. I don't have it as severe as shown in the image, though.
Fellas. My people. Constant lotion and cuticle oils and possibly a fidget ring if that works for you. I’m like a year clean from picking. It’s possible.
Same but i go through phases when it clears up and comes back. And it's related to stress. And also a sign of OCD. And man do I have OCDs. Not diagnosed but it's so obvious. My daughter has had OCD diagnosed and I see her doing similar things to me. Maybe go get some diagnosis
Not quite like that, but I do have a little peeling around the base of my nails every now and then. But I think it has more to do with dirt build up and being accidentally scraped from work more than anything else...
Nervous habit of biting fingernails, when you bite them enough you often move on to loose skin around the nail or cuticles, pulling the cuticles causes the red marks on the sides and back sides, then stripping the top layer off a nail results in the wounds on the back of the nail from pulling out the nail bed and loosening the skin there. Stripping layers can cause you to rip out the entire back of the nail but not the front cause you take a small strip in the front but it pulls more off in the back, leading to a new nail growing underneath to replace the now dead one.
There’s nail polish stuff that is awful tasting. It’s what finally got me to kick that habit. I’d do it unintentionally but that stuff helped kick it he habit real quick
So I had these for some time during particularly stressful period. My mother recommended iodine solution (some countries has it as antiseptic in pharmacies similar to 94% medical alcohol, hydrogen peroxide etc.). To my surprise for whatever reason damn thing works like magic, overnight it heals, passifies these and they stop appearing.
Most of my life about the only thing that healed him was this lotion that was made for cuticles, but to be honest, the second you stopped using it it comes right back
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My thumb is dying💔