Cuticles are NOT stim things!

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It's not fair. I keep wanting to pull off and twist off anything around my fingernails that isn't smooth. I'm getting better at resisting but it used to be so bad that I'd frequently have to use a pencil to dial the phone.

To you younger folks, yeah, phones had these dial holes, meant to cause pain to overly bitten up fingers.

It's not my fault. Nature shouldn't have made cuticles. They're just sitting there waiting to be obsessed with.

Ah! I love those old rotary phones! (But I'm not old at all...)

But anyway, I don't have a major problem with fingers in general. I have a habit of picking hang nails but I can control it most of the time. when I was younger though, I had band-aids on my fingers all the time to keep from messing with them. >.<

why don't you just use cuticle trimmers?

http://www.amazon.com/Tweezerman-Squeez ... gplanet-20

they don't cut up your fingers and they remove all peeling skin.

I have a similar problem with my nails and cuticles. I pick at them constantly. If I have an uneven nail, I'll bite and pick at it until it bleeds and I often get minor infections at the corners of my nails. Gross, but I can't seem to help it. I do the same with hangnails and uneven cuticles.