Dermatophagia is a type of body-focused repetitive behavior. Talk to your doctor if you regularly bite your fingers and nails.

Dermatophagia causes a person to compulsively bite, chew, gnaw, or eat their skin. The condition most often affects the skin around the fingers. Learn more about this behavior here.

Dermatophagia, on the other hand is just….weird. Small things, like holding my hand out to get change from the cashier, typing on a keyboard, taking piano lessons, ...

In a piece for Processing, a Stylist Frame Of Mind series, writer Marcia Kester Doyle shares her journey of discovering her compulsive cuticle biting had a name: dermatophagia.

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