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[SteveWinwood]

Anyone ever managed to quit biting their nails for example?

After years and years of the nasty habit, I have 100% stopped yes.

I haven't bitten or chewed on my nails in 4 or so months.

Sadly I have no wisdom to impart on how to do it, outside of get prescribed anti anxiety medication. All of a sudden I looked down and I had finger nails.

 

[windowlurker]

Eating dead skin flakes from the elderly is sometimes surprisingly pleasant and refreshing

 

[speculawyer]

I love these threads where someone says something crazy and I get page after page of awesome reaction gifs.

 

[RoboGeorgeForeman]

I always find myself biting off the dead/chapped skin off of my lips, but I never actually swallow that stuff. Sounds kinda nasty.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

My ex-girlfriend used to pick her nose and eat the snot. For some reason I never noticed this until one day when she was playing on IMVU.

I just bite my nails.

 

[Casanova]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

yeah it is a thing I often wondered who else does this but yeah the skin thing and blood when I get a cut

amazing how many people do not know how much dust is made up by dead skin and we breathe that in all the time other people's dead skin

 

[pottuvoi]

No I do not eat my skin or any other pieces.

 

[EL CUCO]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

 

[Freaky Fred]

this was certainly a thread worth bumping

 

[hodgy100]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

 

[Marvel]

 

[Yoshichan]

So... Did I NEED SCISSORS ever return to this thread?

 

[Slayer-33]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

Umm why do I get a feeling that he was COMPLETELY serious.

Good Christ

 

[Staccat0]

I eat every part of me. It's disgusting but I don't even realize it's happening.

 

[The_Poet]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

 

[davepoobond]

I never understood the booger eating thing. Does it really look that appetizing to some people?

 

[Rhaknar]

I bite my nails, quite badly. so badly in fact sometimes I actually hurt myself and break the skin

apparently my father did the same, and he left us when I was a kid and didnt raise me so I didnt pick it up from him (seeing him do it I mean), so genetics I guess?

 

[Summer Haze]

Lmao, this thread....

I bite the skin around my finger tips. It's so bad that over the years the skin around each finger and thumb is just smooth and pink. I guess they're just permanently scarred.

 

[red731]

Skin - lips, fingers
Nails - fingers

Depends on stress levels or if I cure the skin, it grows over night and repeat.
HEALING PROTIP: Take Labello(or something) - it is for the lips when they are dry, but before you go to sleep, slide that into figers skin near nails, rub it it (oily) and let it go over nights to heal the skin around nails on fingers.

ed: EXCUSE ME WHILE I THROW UP, INS - FUCK!

 

[Apath]

I bite the skin at the sides of my fingernails, until they bleed and become very painful. I am so addicted to doing this I sometimes put a plaster on them so I physically can't get at them anymore. Strange.

I put bandaids on mine. It starts from jagged nails -> biting nail off -> skin gets torn around nail -> chew skin until bleeds.

Realizing this, I've started making sure my nails are trim and smooth very often. I occassionaly slip up, but the habbit is no longer nearly as bad.

 

[Madnesslink5]

I used to bite my nails regularly when I was younger, and now i've stopped doing it completely (unless I get to the point where my nails really need cutting and I notice it and it annoys me and there is nothing around to cut it with).

 

[bobawesome]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

 

[Messofanego]

And I thought my mild trichtillomania (pulling eyebrow hairs) was crazy...

 

[HORRORSHØW]

 

[BeerSnob]

You are the worst necromancer.

 

[Daffy Duck]

I chew the inside of my cheeks.

I hate it, I'm so conscious of how I look when doing it, also my girlfriend hates that I do it too.

 

[Lord of Castamere]

I chew on my facial hair but I don't swallow. I do eat my finger nails though. Anxiety and all that.

 

[red731]

And I thought my mild trichtillomania (pulling eyebrow hairs) was crazy...

I knew it had a name! I am doing that sometimes to "clean" that place of hair that is no longer "linked" to my skin.

 

[JensenBeeswax]

I sometimes bite the thingies you get in your hands from lifting.

Does anyone even lift and know how they're called?

 

[PickleLlamaJump]

This sounds a lot like Pica sort behaviors and is often caused by a vitamin/mineral deficiency. Commonly zinc or magnesium, but could be a number of things.

 

[Neoriceisgood]

I can't stop laughing. Neogaf really has the most amazing threads.

 

[Marvel]

I do eat my finger nails though.

Isn't that painful!?

Choking hazard too.

 

[Lord of Castamere]

Isn't that painful!?

Choking hazard too.

Nah fingernails chew well. Saliva enzymes and teeth do work. I'm not swallowing them whole.

 

[Marvel]

Nah fingernails chew well. Saliva enzymes and teeth do work. I'm not swallowing them whole.

I understand, I just had an image of the whole curved nail sliding down the throat scraping it.

 

[Madnesslink5]

I chew the inside of my cheeks.

I hate it, I'm so conscious of how I look when doing it, also my girlfriend hates that I do it too.

Same, I do it less often now so I'm hoping I'll eventually get out of it, although if I get very drunk or high I'll suddenly notice I'm doing it and I'll have been doing it for the past 5 minutes or so, it will often be at the point that it really stings/is bleeding.

 

[Lucian Cat]

And I thought my mild trichtillomania (pulling eyebrow hairs) was crazy...

Oh god I do this too D: Don't even realise I'm doing it most of the time.

 

[Cronox]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

So that guy in that video was right when he told the girl "it only smells," then, huh?

Dear journal, TIL...

 

[Messofanego]

Oh god I do this too D: Don't even realise I'm doing it most of the time.

It's the stress for me. I thought having such thick eyebrows, no one would miss it but my mom notices it lol. Good thing I don't have exams to revise for anymore, those levels of intense stress would trigger the behaviour.

 

[NekoFever]

I sometimes bite the thingies you get in your hands from lifting.

Does anyone even lift and know how they're called?

They're calluses. They're not specific to weightlifting.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

Why would your bump this?

 

[Zombine]

I love cooking the skin on people's thumbs with fava beans and a nice chianti.

 

[NateDog]

I bite my nails, quite badly. so badly in fact sometimes I actually hurt myself and break the skin

I do this too. Do people actually eat nails though? I tend to just bite them because I hate the feeling of them when they grow at all so I start biting when I don't have a nail clipper around, I mean they're really short now and even then I feel like cutting them off.

Lmao, this thread....

I bite the skin around my finger tips. It's so bad that over the years the skin around each finger and thumb is just smooth and pink. I guess they're just permanently scarred.

I also do this, the skin on my fingers is atrocious.

 

[Mango The Magician]

I mostly just bite my fingernails which is bad cause I get way too into it sometimes which leads to my fingers being gross, I don't eat the fingernails though that's just nasty. I also sometimes chew on the sides of my mustache if it gets too long, I don't trim it or anything but I do chew on it.

Also that bump.

 

[Lord of Castamere]

I do this too. Do people actually eat nails though? I tend to just bite them because I hate the feeling of them when they grow at all so I start biting when I don't have a nail clipper around, I mean they're really short now and even then I feel like cutting them off.I also do this, the skin on my fingers is atrocious.

Maybe I'm just weird. I mean they're already in my mouth. Might as well.

 

[Messofanego]

Why bite the nails and get a possible infection? Where is your nail clipper?!

 

[McLovin]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

I think my girl wants a suit made out of my leather, my fur, my nails.

 

[SniperHunter]

eating your hair is very dangerous. I saw it on "1000 ways to die," this girl had a habit of eating her hair and it eventually formed a blockage within her body, which led to her death

 

[bidguy]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.