Any suggestions?

[sunup2sundown]

hello, thanks 4 reading my discussion,...
a little bit about me...ive always been a very anxious person and a very nervouse person. i suffer from a mild case of OCD, anxiety disorder, depression and ADHD....=(

so, i bite my nails really bad all the time. i am literally always doing it...when im happy, sad, mad, nrevous...always biting them! it soothes me and comforts me even in times when i didnt know i was doing it or needed the comfort. i do it the the extent of infection...i sometimes chew the skin ll the way down to my first knuckle. always bleeding and sore. its a horrible way to live...who knew something so common could be so discusting. i feel discusting.

i wan to stop. ive tried fake nails, and nail polish...nothing i do seems to work. and its makes me more depressed when i look down and see my discusting hands...it makes me want to do it even more.

help?

[CKBlossom]

Hi Sunup2sundown, thank you for being here with us and for sharing. I used to skin pick pretty badly, mostly around my nails. It was really really bad, so I knew that I needed to get to the bottom of it so that I could stop this bad habit. I started to find distractions for my hands whenever I felt that I wanted to pick, and I also would run a lot of lotion on my hands, even vaseline, so that I couldn't physically pick at that point. Slowly but surely I did it less and less, and then stopped all together. I find myself picking every once in a while and I tell myself to stop, it's easier to do so now. I hope that this helps a bit. Please know that I am here to help you through this in any way that I can.