Posted by Eddie Sylvano on February 11, 2004, at 11:55:38
In reply to skin picking, posted by aussie on February 10, 2004, at 1:34:41
> Any one do this?
> I've got bald patches that I cover up.
> I don't want to go to bed and I don'tknow why.
-----------I never used to, but about a year ago I started tearing off little strips of dead skin from my thumb cuticles, which has progressed to me reshaping the entire right side of my right thumbnail and underlying nail bed. I want to leave it alone, but it's so mindless. I just find myself automatically doing it when I'm bored. I don't really enjoy any pain it brings, nor do I feel compulsive about anything else in my life. There's just something oddly relaxing about wedging a fingernail corner under a small fold of skin. It's a pattern my brain has fallen into for some reason, and the process just seems to amplify itself. The only relief is to cut my nails really short, so there are no protrusions to pick with, but I'm lax about even doing that (self-maintainance is such a job). Fortunately, few people seem to study my thumbnails closely in public.
poster:Eddie Sylvano
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