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[–] britaliope@kourjetez.bzh 2 points 12 minutes ago

I'm inthi picture and it hurt to see

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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!

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yeah. I rock climb as my job basically, and my finger health is in the bin most of the time…

[–] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Not since I was in my early 20s, and it seems like it's more common with young people.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Young skin,
dry and thin

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 hours ago

I had for a while. Not that bad though.
Then I started cooking for myself.

[–] altphoto 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 6 points 7 hours ago

Isn't that just people biting their fingers?

[–] rachiedoubt@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

Lol yeah. I stopped biting my nails and cuticles when Covid started, but now i just pick the shit out of my cuticles

[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I used to chew the skin from my finger nails a lot as a kid, not much nowdays, but still do sometimes, I doesn't happen on its own

[–] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Since I can remember. Why does this happen?

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Very wrong.

[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] leonjhm7788@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Interesting how much people don't understand. So for u normies, non autistic people here: NO , the skin doesn't get like that by its own, it's not moisture, cream or anything, it's just we can't stop messing with our thingers and constantly damage the border of nails like that.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 hours ago

just to be clear: not all autistic people do this

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] crawlspace@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

How did you get that photo of my hand?

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I did until like a week ago.

I’d had enough as they hurt and wasn’t getting better, I do a lot of rock climbing so the chalk makes the issue worse, plus I have not been doing great mentally so diet and hydration was awful.

What I did:

  • Bought some Nails Inc Cuticle Oil (I am male, but it works). You just add a bit and rub it in. I now use this most days and definitely after climbing.
  • I know that with a poor diet I am likely missing vitamins as some of my nails had lines down them. I take a cheap multi vitamin everyday.
  • I am conscious to drink more water, although I already drink 2-3liter a day.
  • I am making plans to improve my eating habits as I get decision fatigue and really just don’t eat enough. Think I’ve been alive too long that food is just meh at this point. But I went climbing yesterday on hardly anything and felt incredibly sick.

My nails are better now. My mental health not so much but one step at a time.

[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Comment to find this back later! I'm over 40 and just accepted my hands being fucked up as part of life.

Here is the current progress. The first one is from 2nd May and the second is today. You can see there has been significant improvement and they are not sore anymore.

[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You gave me fairly panic with that nail lines constant and I just had to go look it up.

No, nails having lines going down them is not necessarily a sign of vitamin deficiency. Turns out that the majority of the time it's completely harmless and a sign of aging. Both index fingers and my right middle finger have a very faint dark line going from cuticle tip.

Your mileage may vary, IDK about your personal diet etc. just wanted to chime in about the nails thing

[–] s23b@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

Dark lines going down on nails could also be a sign of subungual melanoma, so you might want to check for that.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting. Thanks and sorry for scaring you.

I would note that mine are on a single nail and less lines and more defined ridges where you can run another nail over and feel it bumping across.

[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

No need to apologize!!

I thrive on neurotic energy??

Well I'm always looking up things that were in so knowledge is power and all that

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[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm positive 95% of your results came just from drinking more water. when your hands look like the picture, it's almost definitely because you're chronically dehydrated.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am not so sure. As I said in the post I drink a lot of water.

So I wake up and have a cup of tea and for evening meal I have a can of Pepsi. Everything else in the day is just water and never less than 1.5 litres.

For me at least I think it was the climbing chalk and poor eating habits so lacking vitamins. I guess I’ll never truly know and it’s good advice to be hydrated.

[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

nah, it's usually hand moisture that causes this. if you do a lot of stuff that dries your hands out, you'll get it too. climbing chalk can do that. I also said 95% is hydration. vitamins can also help.

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[–] Yukily@jlai.lu 8 points 1 day ago

The story of my life...

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No! Never! What the hell causes that? Is it a dry skin thing? Looks painful and disturbing.

[–] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

Compulsive skin picking. I wish I could stop, but I can't.

[–] nekbardrun@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 158 points 1 day ago (11 children)
[–] Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Just put some nail polish on your fingers to prevent it from happening.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

You can always trust SatansMaggotyCumFart to chime in with the wholesome memes.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 123 points 1 day ago (21 children)
[–] z500@startrek.website 64 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Where we're going we won't need fingernails

[–] sfled@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago

Just suckers, like an octopus.

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fuck you.

Just fuck you and quit attacking me

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