Is it normal that i'm a picker?

I have bad habit of always picking at and pulling off the skin underneath and around my fingernails. I'll bite it, I'll pick it off, I'll use a pin or tweezers. I often do it until it bleeds or I give myself hangnails. Sometimes I do it to my toes. The skin around them comes off so easily. I'm not talking about the actual flesh - just the thin layer around the cuticles and underneath. It's a habit like biting your fingernails but it makes my hands look kind of haggard and weird and it makes me self-conscious. Does anyone else do this?

Is It Normal?
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  • Oh...not garbage. Ok then.

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  • I do that all the time!! I thought I was weird..

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  • I do the same thing. You sort of get immune to the pain you get in your fingers if you do it often enough and I've done it since I was a kid. It keeps me from biting my nails but the area around them always looks fucked up and bloody or raw.

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  • Hmm...I do thangs with my finger skin too. Okay that does sound strange or maybe my mind is weird. It's probably my mind.

    If I get a hang nail I don't cut it with a nail clipper but instead I pull it back and then rip it out by the root. It bleeds of course and then if I feel like it and my hands are clean I'll lick and suck the blood.

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  • I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover, I'm a sinner.

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  • I chomp my finger skin too, and on the inside of my cheeks until I can taste blood. :D

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  • I used to do that all the time ... when I was a kid.

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  • what you do make another post.

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