Hi, i’ve been struggling for a while now (since late 2024) with picking the skin on my feet and it’s gotten to a point where it’s getting painful and affecting my daily life.
It started with excessive clipping the nail of my pinky toe and also pulling on the skin on the edges of it, then cutting it with nail clippers, then it went on to my other feet until both of my pinky nails ended up so short i had problems wearing shoes and walking normally, eventually i let them grow, but obviously because of the damage i did they now grow extremely fragile.
When i finally stopped doing that i started picking on the skin of my heel, it started with a piece of dry skin then on purposefully pulling giant patches of skin, and when there was nothing i was able to pull with my fingers i’d use a nail clipper. It got so bad that now i have a hard time walking because the pressure from standing on my feet makes my heel hurt really bad, i try to stop but everyday i find myself picking and picking, it’s also embarrassing to show my feet to anyone
I just need advice, how do you keep yourself from doing these things? anyone who has overcome it? I’ll attach a picture