Warning a bit gross. Selfharm

[Faraknur]

I dont really selfharm in the traditional sense like with knives, fire etc. But i peel of my toenails completley to. I mean to the base. I then bandage them and wait till there is some kind of nail again and repeat the process. I dont know why i do that. It does not offer me a release or anything. It is just a habbit i cant shake. I bite my fingernails too. but not as much.
Can anybody relate?

 

[Soulless Angel]

https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/self-harm-thread.57547/

 

[myopybyproxy]

i don't understand that at all - how do you take off your nails? just...how?? how do you physically get yourself to do that? but i suppose that's the same thing others would think of what i do. the mind is a strange place.

from reading published memoirs at the library and posts on other forums - this is not as uncommon as one might think. although i can't personally relate, i am here to bring you secondhand solidarity. one especially stood out to me. if only i can remember the title - the cover had a light skinned arm covered with many tiny colourful dots and a blue background.

edit: found it - a million little pieces by james frey

 

[albino_elk]

its not that hard to peel off the nail. if you hit it hard enough (for example with a brick on purpose or on accident) the nail gonna peel itself:d in a few days max

 

[Faraknur]

i just claw at them and then rip them off. takes alot of time and maybe calms me down a bit