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I have been eating my nails to the point of making them hurt and have been squeezing out ingrowns on my legs to the point of making them infected. I just noticed it today as a problem. Weird but I have been doing it for about 6 months (the leg thing), but now I have scars all over, so it is starting to worry me...

Why am I doing it? I don't know.... At first it was only to remove ingrowns, but now for some weird reason it has become some strange fascination with I don't know what. Feel embarrassed about it- don't think I could ever tell my therapist. Anyone experience the same? How do you stop it?

[Rapunzel]

See if you can notice how your feelings change before and after you do these things. Maybe that will help you gain some insight into why you do it. I'm a big supporter of trying to tell your therapist about anything you discover that has significance for you, although I do know how hard that can be sometimes. When I notice that there is something that I don't want to tell my therapist, that tells me it's probably important to tell her.

[Rio_]

What you do to your ingrowns is sort of similar to what I do to my hair - I originally started pulling it because I noticed all these thick, frizzy hairs on my head that I wanted to get rid of, so I pulled them out. Maybe you notice your ingrowns because they're different? If that's the case, maybe covering them up would help, so you can't see them.

Good luck, anyway - hope you manage to stop!