#wolfbiter

[louintotheocean]

one of the many frustration thing about skin picking disorder is that it gets worse when you're anxious, and sometimes the reason for that anxiety is an important event for which you wish you could look professional and have normal not picked at skin

[hollyjolly1021]

Dermatophagia

I know this isn’t BFRB week, but I thought I’d share something a little deep today with you guys about dermatophagia, a BFRB ( Body-focused repetitive behavior). Sorry this isn’t sims-focused <3

Ever since I was a little girl, I have struggled with dermatophagia. Dermatophagia is a psychological condition, in which the person who has this disorder picks or chews or gnaws at their skin, mostly around the fingers. Dermatophagia is honestly kind of new to doctors, but it really does affect you.

It affects me in many different ways. Growing up as a little girl, my parents often told me that nobody would like me, or want to marry me or hold my hand because of them. I frequently got told that my hands felt like leather (even though they don’t; I use moisturizer a lot of the time nowadays). I frequently got told bad things, and had pictures of raw hands hung in my room. It was emotionally scarring to be told I wasn’t “normal.” The problem is, I would try and stop but I just couldn’t. My brain was wired in a certain way.

One day, I went to Disneyworld when I was about 10 years old. Since I was an “adult” under Disney terms, I had to provide a fingerprint from my thumb. My parents were VERY angry to find that I no longer had my fingerprint on my thumb. Dermatophagia had ruined my fingerprint on my thumb.

Dermatophagia affects about 3% of the population - but that 3% does suffer. If you see someone with dermatophagia, try not to bring them down; instead, try and uplift them. They struggle, and they are human beings just like you. Having dermatophagia doesn’t mean you aren’t normal. You are a perfectly fine human individual with problems, and you were born with a disorder - so what? You can’t control that.

Stay you boo. Remember to stay healthy. Try and uplift anyone around with a BFRB and let’s spread some positivity this week. <3

[thecreepycookies]

the taste of blood lingers on my tongue 

[dermatofuckkk]

Why doesn’t anybody believe me?

Hi. I’m Ash. I have dermatophagia. I went to a diagnostic appointment to see if I had bipolar and I brought up that I obsessively and compulsively bit my fingernails and cuticles and hands in fucking general.

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He told me “oh it’s just a bad habit” just a bad habit I said? Alright.

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I’ve been biting every. single. day. Since I was about 8. I’m almost 18. I did stop for a while when I first painted my nails last summer (I think it was then?) but I relapsed and felt like shit about it.

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I remember people are always telling me these things:

“Stop biting”

“You’re biting again”

“That’s self harm”

“That’s disgusting”

“Your hands are disgusting”

“Oh it’s not a disorder. It’s a bad habit”

Etc. etc. etc.

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I just wish somebody fucking believed me. I wish somebody would be able to look at how severe my hands are and see. Yes, sister. I DO need gloves when it’s only 50 degrees out. Yes mother, it IS a disorder. No nurse, it’s NOT self harm. Yes diagnosis man, it IS real.

[vantasei]

just wolfbiter things

when your lil ends of the parts you bite get hard and catch on fabric reblog if you agree

[changes-will-come]

Omg what happened to your fingers??!?!?!!??

Me desperately trying to hide hands: nothing

No really what happened that looks so painful???!?

NotHING

[teenmirror]

Im a Wolfbiter, i bit all my thumbs up They hurt Im legit in pain :( I dont have real thumbs anymore. I cant bend one of them...

[changes-will-come]

Dermatophagia

I could sit here for hours and stare at my fingers. These delicate instruments Are broken trees. Their wood is splintered, Their bark is pealing, But I keep chopping. And the skin becomes old paint: Dry and cracked On a wall of bone and blood. Like two rows of burnt out matchsticks And a flame that keeps them burning, Although there is nothing left to char. And these sticks become like rocks, Hardening from the fire, But crumpling like tissue And ripping like paper. These limbly tools Are rusted over. I could sit here for hours and stare at my fingers. -Wolfbiiters