Today is hair and nail biting hell!

[Richard2000Participant]

Today, and well to be honest, pretty much every day, my life is hair and is nail biting hell…I bite and chew my hair and my fingernails all the time. I’m anxious and always been a worrier.  I will absolutely never go through a week without biting my hair and fingernails, even though they taste horrible! I don’t know how I’ve survived, I want to stop every day and still I just non-stop bite my hair and fingernails. At school I got harassed by bullies because of my “problems”. I really don’t know why and when this started. And I really don’t know how to stop, and move on. Has anyone had this? Did it take a long time to stop? I don’t want to do this forever, but maybe I can’t stop. I’m getting worse and worse…

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Hi:

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