so when I was a little chap.. (warning very gross stuff click at your own risk)

[SlayerZ99]

Is that puss or skin?

I get that too, sorta. I get something that looks like that. I have extreme callus on my hands from the shingles. When I get in water, the dead skin becomes extremely white and I can peel it off pretty easily.

A closer look and it seems to be dead skin.

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[jamesster]

Why did I click the link oh goodness why ;_;

[Sami2ss]

although my nails aren't like this, i find myself sometimes acting very nervously and biting my fingertips like this, and it's not even the nails. it's not as bad as it sounds, considering i haven't done it in awhile, and when i do it, it's very rare now.

[Cybersix]

When I was a warthog.

I found his aroma lacked a certain appeal
I could clear the savannah after every meal

I'm a sensitive soul though I seem thick-skinned
And it hurt that my friends never stood downwind
And oh, the shame      
Thought of changin' my name   
And I got downhearted      

[RedGajin]

jesus christ wtf is wrong with you

[Caribou]

I've been biting my nails since I was 3, I have always done it, and especially when I start getting a bunch of twitches from my condition and it turned into a bad habit. I didn't do it out of anxiety or nervousness though, and I also have OCD which causes the habit too, I am on the verge to stopping though. I haven't been biting my nails as much, I do the skin sometimes though since I have no nails to bite during many instances. It's embarrassing.

[Niff]

Now I have this urge to bite on my thumb knuckle


thanks

[Pixel]

Hello! I used to bite my nails as well, and thats normal.


Heres a pic of my hand when I was fourteen years old:
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x225/Blockland/IMG00060.jpg

Luckily I stopped eventually, and so now my nails are growing back in, although the area around them is still pretty inflamed. I could upload a more recent pic but I havent clipped my nails in like a week - awk.

Anyway its just the way the skin swells up after youve bitten chunks off of it. Theres already normal swelling, so after soaking in the water it it swells further and rather than swelling in the general shape of your fingerprint, that area is so distorted from biting that it swells up around the areas youve bitten, which leaves it looking like deep craters.

ANYWHO you can stop biting your nails! Just force yourself whenever you notice youre biting to stop, and make sure to keep your nails clipped back thin, and eventually youll no longer instinctively start biting and from there its very easy. It took me a few months to a year to go from that picture to normal. Good luck!

EDIT:

Actually I decided to upload a newer pic anyway, fuq da police. I know my nails are long atm:

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x225/Blockland/IMG_20130825_233528.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x225/Blockland/IMG_20130825_233616.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x225/Blockland/IMG_20130825_233626.jpg

Thats after a little over a year of not biting, and about a week of not clipping QQ

[Acerblock]

oh my god, that's..... wow.

this can be interpreted in two ways
wtf why do you people bite your nails anyway that's disgusting do you imagine how many bacteria gets in your teeth you will get sick and die of aids

The HIV/AIDS virus could not be passed through biting your nails. It would die off in the air in seconds. Dr. Acerblock, ladies.