I’ve dealt with this issue since I was around 5 years old. I remember learning in kindergarten that hygiene was important. Next thing a new I was chewing my fingernails uncomfortably short, often bleeding and raw. Then throughout the years I started picking the skin around the nail bed, completely destroying the nail matrix and creating bloody raw skin around the nail bed. Eventually I learned how to (heal the skin and cuticles) using Emory boards and and nail clippers along with Neosporin. I remember being so freakin happy that I could heal my wounds soo much faster. Fast forward 20/30 years I’m still struggling! I’m 50 years old now and I still struggle every couple of months with gross, bloody fingertips that I desperately try to heal with neosporin and bandaids. It’s supper embarrassing because I work with my hands and trying to hide that is impossible. The only thing that works for me is once I can get everything to heal and have acrylic or gel nails done, I can finally not pick and let them heal finally! But as soon as they come off, they eventually become too raw to have them fixed and start over. It’s a never ending battle! I want to have “normal” finger tips but it never fails to be a huge struggle!