I Have Dermatophagia Stories of Experiences

I thought i was the only one who bit off my skin. Ive always been ashamed to admit to my friends that i bit my skin off. just yesterday i found out i had it. Ive been doing it since i was 5, when i suddenly thought "Hmm, maybe it would...

Hello. I've been suffering with this condition for 5 years now, and over the past 20 days, I've had a miracle recovery. I have tracked my journey and provided tips for recovery on this tumblr site, http://dermatophagiaddiction.tumblr...

I have obsessively chewed on the skin around my fingernails ever since I was about 7 or 8 years old. I am now 33, and I cannot seem to figure out how to stop completely. My fingers - especially my thumbs - are permanently scarred...

Well, ever since I was around 11, I have always bitten around my finger nails, I would just bite off the skin and eat it I guess, I didn't think much of it, I got to the point where it began to hurt, I wouldn't really care, I would...

I started biting the skin off my fingers in secondary school when i was left with no friends. I developed stress and anxiety and now my hands look pretty horrendous. There is marks on my knuckles on my fingers and everyone asks me what...

I am thirteen years old and I have Dermatophagia (well, duh). It's really odd to see the peeling skin on my fingers and the scabs. It doesn't really hurt much. The pain is kind of pleasing, somehow. I like the sharp tug of the skin...

I just found out today that my bad habit of picking and eating my skin has a name. I learned about dermatophagia by Googling "I like to pick and eat my own skin." This was instigated by a classmate staring at my hands (the skin around...

Hello. 41 yrs old. I started in my teens, and have been strugglingever since. Recently found out about the "name". I have used rolls and rolls of Nexcare Gentle Paper Tape to cover the tips of my fingers to help them to heal. To...

I'm slightly embarrassed about it too be honest. I see people staring at my nails when I write in school. I cannot help but bite chunks of skin from around my nails. I pick, rip and bite all around them. My fingers are an absolute mess...

I've been suffering from it for years, since I was in primary school. It got worse through junior school, as I had no friends and often got picked on. However towards the end, i made a few friends, who unfortunately moved away in...

Ok. So i just turned 29 about a week ago and have been having somewhat of a mid life crisis (last year in my 20's and all that). I have always had really bad anxiety. Chewed my nails since early childhood then moved on to the skin on my...

Recently I have been chewing a lot on my fingers. I have bitten off so much skin on my left pointer finger that it has gone all red and I have had to cover it completely with bandaids. My friends think that it's kinda weird and gross...

I have been peeling then chewing my finger skin for as long as I can remeber. I have no idea why I do it I just know I always have and I can't stop. The only time I stop is if I have my nails done. The nails are too thick n it prevents...

Hey,i m Priya i HAD this prblem when i was 11 years.I did not pay much attention 2 wat i was doing & slowly this habit of eating skin increased & so this my parents noticed.They tried their best from stopping me from doing this &even...

I have had this problem for years, i cant remember when it started. I constantly bite my fingers, and pick at them. If I'm not biting or picking then I'm fidgeting something that affects my finger cuticles. I have a great home life, yet...

I think i have more of a Dermatophagia, then Dermatillomania.. I bite my skin AND pick at it.. my nails, the skin around my fingers, my heels, my legs, everything.. i cannot stop.

I can't remember not bitting my fingers. It feels like I have been bitting them since I can remember. I don't know why I started or when, my mother even had a photo of me as a child with my fingers in my mouth. It has gotten to the...

I am 26 now and have been biting my skin since I was fitted with fixed braces on my teeth and started to use the metal bits of the braces to get my skin off my fingers. I had the braces for a while and so when I had them taken off I...

It frickin sucks. Sorry if thts too blunt. I especially hate mine because it on my feet and i cant find anyone like me. I cant find anything on the web about it. I cant afford therapy and as of right now I've picked till I cant walk...

Well first I would like to start off saying that I am twenty one years old. I first starting picking as early as age three. I had a birth mark and I would continually pick the scabs off my cheek continuously. When that was not enough I...