Pealing the skin above my nails and eating my fingers

[Hunter_Steel]

Okay.

For a long time I now, I started to peal the skin away at the top of my nails till I see the blood coming and I just peal a little more. I also have the urge to bite my fingers till I bleed.

I can't remember why I do it, but it started when I was around 10. Now I can't stop. I just feel the need to feel that pain and see my own blood. And now I start to like the feeling of when I get cut. Is something wrong with me?

Am I becoming a psycho who likes to see blood and feel pain?

Please help!

~Hunter

[CoolKid97]

I don't think your psycho. However these open wounds unless you keep them covered aren't good. You can get infections. I used to bite the skin off my fingers. I've stopped alot of it and the damage is showing. I did that for 4 years so stop while you can!

[Haydenn3]

Okay.

For a long time I now, I started to peal the skin away at the top of my nails till I see the blood coming and I just peal a little more. I also have the urge to bite my fingers till I bleed.

I can't remember why I do it, but it started when I was around 10. Now I can't stop. I just feel the need to feel that pain and see my own blood. And now I start to like the feeling of when I get cut. Is something wrong with me?

Am I becoming a psycho who likes to see blood and feel pain?

Please help!

~Hunter

Have you self harmed before this sounds just like when people cut you have urges to do it more and more deeper and deeper even when your not down or sad you want to cut is it like that?

[Hunter_Steel]

I started nearly 7 years ago. So its hard to stop, even if I wish to.

No, I haven't purposfuly cut myself, but I have this massive urge to do so. I have been cut before by many things and once impaled by a tree branch. But recently I accidentally cut my thumb while washing a knife and I just wanted to cut my other fingers and also my hand.

I am a little stressed and depressed, but not enough to start Self-harm or cutting. I believe its because I enjoy the pain and like seeing my own blood. I sometimes see in series a guy getting his arm slashed by a sword or some type of bladed weapon, or being impaled through the side by a spear and can't help but think and wish I was that person being cut up or impaled. I don't know why I think like this.

Do I have a death wish? I have no idea.

I suffer from asthma attacks sometime, and have been very close to death before. I could literally feel myself fading away. I dunno why I want to feel like that again either.

I think I am deeply disturbed or something. I just really have the urge to inflict pain on myself. Especially if it causes me to bleed or have a slit in my skin.

~Hunter

[Haydenn3]

I started nearly 7 years ago. So its hard to stop, even if I wish to.

No, I haven't purposfuly cut myself, but I have this massive urge to do so. I have been cut before by many things and once impaled by a tree branch. But recently I accidentally cut my thumb while washing a knife and I just wanted to cut my other fingers and also my hand.

I am a little stressed and depressed, but not enough to start Self-harm or cutting. I believe its because I enjoy the pain and like seeing my own blood. I sometimes see in series a guy getting his arm slashed by a sword or some type of bladed weapon, or being impaled through the side by a spear and can't help but think and wish I was that person being cut up or impaled. I don't know why I think like this.

Do I have a death wish? I have no idea.

I suffer from asthma attacks sometime, and have been very close to death before. I could literally feel myself fading away. I dunno why I want to feel like that again either.

I think I am deeply disturbed or something. I just really have the urge to inflict pain on myself. Especially if it causes me to bleed or have a slit in my skin.

~Hunter

I could be totally wrong but i think its like your own personal way of dealing with everything and the fear of death its strange our brains but like i selfharm for reasons such as stress and stuff but my life isnt as bad as others doesnt mean i shouldnt self harm it DOES NOT make you a freak of any sorts but if you really think its not a self harm sort of thing get to a doctor or something because it could be a bad mental illness or something

go hear and learn more about self injury http://www.youngminds.org.uk/for_parents/whats_worrying_you_about_your_child/self-harm/about_self-harm

[JoeHillsTSD]

I bite my fingers till they bleed as well. It gets really bad, at one point I bit them to where it hurt just to simply move my hand. It's not like I like the pain, it's just that biting my nails has always been a habit of mine, and now that the nails are bitten away, nothing is left but skin.

I don't think you are crazy anything. Stress causes people to do wild things. When I'm under a lot of stress, the first thing action I make is my hand to my mouth.

Don't worry about it so much, just try avoid sharp objects if wounds or blood interest you.

[Kuurachan]

Get professional help, PLEASE! I don't want to seem rude, but you don't want to end up like Hannibal Lector 8#

[Taurus]

Okay.

For a long time I now, I started to peal the skin away at the top of my nails till I see the blood coming and I just peal a little more. I also have the urge to bite my fingers till I bleed.

I can't remember why I do it, but it started when I was around 10. Now I can't stop. I just feel the need to feel that pain and see my own blood. And now I start to like the feeling of when I get cut. Is something wrong with me?

Am I becoming a psycho who likes to see blood and feel pain?

Please help!

~Hunter

There is a condition known as Autophagia (eating one's own body). Autophagia is not classified as a mental disorder or a symptom of a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). However, Autophagia could be classified under the DSM's Impulse-Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified.
Impulse-Control Disorders involve failing to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform an act that is harmful to the person or to others. The majority of people affected by this disorder will usually feel tense or aroused before committing the act.
People with Autophagia will often tear and nibble their hands and fingers.

[Haydenn3]

There is a condition known as Autophagia (eating one's own body). Autophagia is not classified as a mental disorder or a symptom of a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). However, Autophagia could be classified under the DSM's Impulse-Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified.
Impulse-Control Disorders involve failing to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform an act that is harmful to the person or to others. The majority of people affected by this disorder will usually feel tense or aroused before committing the act.
People with Autophagia will often tear and nibble their hands and fingers.

I like the sound of that it sounds just like what the OP has well done sir

[Hunter_Steel]

I would get professional help, but Psychiatrists in SA have an 80% chance of turning a person suicidal than they actually have of helping someone. Specifically if the person has a problem, they just make it worse.

When I go to England, I'll get some help from a shrink. Until then, I think I'll just keep trying to resist, but its very very very difficult. My mom knows I bite my fingers, but not to the extent I have said here.

I want to stop, because I don't want my girlfriend to see me like this. I know she selfharms too, but its better if I stop self-harming, then I can help her to stop. She's only recently been at it since earlier this year.

Thanks for the advice so far though.

~Hunter

[blueprincess]

i bite my nails everytime i feel worried or just bored