to really enjoy picking the skin around my fingers, oh nom nom

[discorabbit]

it's really quite fun

YABU if the nom nom bit means you are eating it [shocked]

I have this habit. I didn't even know until MN that there is a proper term for it. If there is a loose bit, then it is asking to be picked. But I don't eat it, thats gross.

If you keep eating the skin around your fingers you will eventually dissappear up your own bum

Me too. I go through stages of not doing it for a while and my hands look lovely, then all of a sudden, I just HAVE to start on them again. There's just something about picking at scabs...eughhhh!

Ooh yes, I'm with you ... pick pick pick ... drives DP mad ha ha!

Ha, why waste time picking at the skin when you can just nibble it off?!! ESP after a bath when the skin is swollen and easier to bite. Is fab! (rabid cannibal emoticon)

I also do this. It makes me miserable because I can't stop it and often I do it until it hurts and bleeds. It looks awful. I wish I could control myself.

I like it when it starts bleeding.

So I'm not the only one?

I pick the side of my thumb without even realising it. Then it bleeds, gets sore, heals and repeat ad infinitum!

at you all. So so so U.

Ahh you're a bogging bunch!

YANBU for picking, but eating? YABU!
Agree with wearesix and my handslooksoold I wish I could stop myself, but I really can't. Does anyone else pick more when they're anxious/upset?

Seeing as we're confessing here: I also pick and bite the skin on my fingers.
I hate the way my hands look because of it but it's too satisfying to stop.

Feels good to know there are other 'orrible people out there who also do this!

Guilty.

YANBU very tasty, i started picking skins when i was about 6 and still do it. Lovely feet skin, my dd had some the other day, i was in 7th heaven

Wait a minute, did I read that right piglet? You eat your dds foot skin? Wrong. Absolutely wrong.

I do this. I hate myself for it, really do, my fingers are constantly sore/bleeding/scabby but I haven't managed to stop doing it yet. There is some weird satisfaction in it.

I pick/press/poke one side of my thumb til it hurts, mostly when I'm stressed. Can't stop myself and have done it for about 25 years.

Me too! I'm so pleased I'm not the only one. I think it's because the skin is dry and I just can't resist trying to peel it off. It does bleed often though which is embarrassing at times ( trying to hide bloody fingers). It definitely increases with anxiety as well.
I don't eat it though, just spit it off to one side (shock)

YANBU. Currently I am enjoying squeezing all the little whiteheads on my upper arms. Very satisfying.

Sprite21, go on, put it in your mouth and give it a little chew! Its completely without taste, but has the most satisfying texture! You kind of have to squeeze it with your front teeth to get the most out of it....It's faaaaab! :o

my fingers are soooo sore at the mo from doing this. agree biting is the best tactic! cannibalistic . think the cold weather makes them more peely!

surefine best thing ever!!

Me too :( thumbs mostly. Gets worse in cold weather like this, agony and very embarrassing. I notice I have been doing it more if stressed, even if I didn't realise something had upset me, my fingers will tell the tale.

I would like to stop doing it before my children think it's ok to do it too! Bizarrely I am paranoid about germs and hand washing so as not to pick up bugs, yet I can't seem to stop nibbling myself (and yes I do most often eat the scraps).

Is there a name for this vile habit? I don't know anyone else in real life who does it.

I hate it when it's a bit flappy, but not enough for me to pick/bite off. pretty much the most irritating thing EVER.

no bedmonster i dont eat hers, just peel it, i eat my own at times nom nom nom