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- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I’m sorry :( I would hide mine as a child as well. I would chew mine until they bled, much worse when going through anxiety. They make a polish called Mavala stop that tastes bad. It never worked for me I just bit right through it haha. The nail salons I’ve been to are very nice when I explain I have an anxiety disorder that makes my nails look like crap :)
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- 6y ago
Aw I’m sorry, I could see how that could make it worse for you. I was terribly embarrassed the first time I went. Even with my nails done, I still pick at them and my husband always gets on to me haha. Not much quick fixes in the ocd/ anxiety world ? but I would keep pushing forward with anxiety reducing methods. You might not always be able to stop completely? Because I still pick at mine but they don’t bleed and look terrible like they used to. If you feel overwhelmed with anxiety, open a meditation app, drink a glass of water, write a note describing your thoughts. Little things like that help me ?
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- 6y ago
I deal with compulsive lip and cheek biting which I believe is similar. It’s terrible and I’ve been trying to find ways to stop!
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- 6y ago
Oh my gosh I’ve done it for as long as I can remember. I never thought of it as ocd for me, but it probably is lol. The only thing that helps me is getting my nails done regularly. Not always a cheap option tho. :)
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- 6y ago
My fingers are horrendous. I have to hide them when I'm swimming because it's so embarrassing... It looks like they've been used as chew toys for a teething puppy. I have also been biting and picking since I was little... I'm 23 now and still struggling. Good luck!! :)
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- 6y ago
See my mother used to make me get my nails done and it created so much anxiety because of the horrendous comments that would be made that I haven’t gone in almost a decade (I’m 21). I’ve tried tape and bandaids but it just draws more attention to it. It definitely comes and goes with anxiety levels but I just wish there was a quick fix
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- 6y ago
Yes luckily the place I go to get my nails done has nice ladies who sincerely want to help make my nails and cuticles look nice. I found that after I go, I'll see how nice they can look & I try to keep them that way. I also found that using Burt's bees cuticle cream, or putting aquaphor on my nails and cuticles helps a lot. I'll use one of those then put on some cotton gloves that I got at CVS or Harmon's or wherever. I normally wear them to bed and when I wake up they're a lot less painful and dry looking. I'll also wear them when I'm working on my computer or watching TV or a movie because when I'm doing those things I'll pick without even realising it. But with the gloves I have no shot. I hope that helps :)
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- 20w ago
The other day I made a post about being kind and supportive and not being judgmental when commenting on other people’s posts because someone made a comment on my post insinuating that I don’t have ocd and i’m actually just a bad person. At first it didn’t really bother me because I know i’m not a bad person but now my ocd is latching onto their comment and it’s making me feel horrible. My post that they commented on was about how whenever I think things to myself like how my pre teen daughter is blessed to have slim legs and not chubby thighs like mine and she’s growing up into a nice shape or my teen son has a nice shape jawline and neck and it’s good that he’s slim but he’s too slim or how all of my adult kids are so handsome/beautiful my ocd turns my random normal mom thoughts into something inappropriate. I know I don’t think of or look at my kids or any kids or young person in an inappropriate way. My ocd says I do and I was seeking support. That persons comment was so damaging for me. I tried to think maybe they have never had dark disturbing intrusive thoughts with their ocd themes and maybe they just don’t understand or maybe they have never had pocd theme or maybe they are not a parent but even if all of that were true, their comment was still so judgmental and damaging. I am struggling even more now because my ocd is latching onto that persons comment and making me feel like a horrible person. Has anyone else had this happen? How did you get through it?
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- 4w ago
i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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- 27d ago
Very brief mentions of pocd and nsfw jokes,id like this to be adults only . Repost bc i had to edit something Does anyone have experience with real event ocd attached to your online footprint etc? I keep checking old messages,trying to find old people i knew i used to talk to etc. To find out every problematic thing I did and if I've ever been unfollowed or blocked by anyone I used to be friends w online/atleast on good terms w. I am particularly concerned abt doing something bigoted,esp racist bc i have racism ocd,and doing something predatory bc of my pocd. I remember hanging around people who could use 'edgy' or offensive humour in my teens and i remember a lot of sex jokes and that i would join in on sex jokes sometimes . i dont remember details w the offensive humour as much,i feel like i didnt join in on it as much but i was definitely WAY passive abt things and prob let a lot of bad stuff slide i shouldnt have bc i didn't speak up it was wrong,I remember one friend in an online community would say slurs and horrible jokes when i was 16. I dont remember my response to it as much but i feel i didnt speak up abt it aside one time i found in the dms where he made a bad joke on a thing i shared for social justice. I cant stop going thru old messages and stuff or trying to find ppl from the past. I feel like if I don't check it now,that eventually it'll come to haunt me or that I'll stumble across it eventually. I worry what if someone messaged me on one of these apps I un-installed or on one of the accounts I don't have access to,confronting me abt all this stuff I did. I had an obsession w this back in 2020 and did check in depth on all my accounts,but now that it's been 4 years the obsession is back in full swing.
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