Did you know that I used to peel my nails? It started in kindergarten, when I first saw people picking their nails. I wondered what are they doing? hey, I want to try that! Then, my mom won’t have to cut my nails! That’s where I figured out the real truth. Picking my nails was a bad idea, and my mom told me this about 3 or 4 days after I had started. I was totally fine with picking my nails and at the time, didn’t know what my nails would look like after I had really started picking my nails… My nails kept growing shorter and shorter until they were less than a centimeter long. My parents where VERY concerned about it and even took me to the doctor two or three times! One night, my parents took one look at my nails and said that I had to stop peeling my nails. I then decided that I would no longer peel my nails and would not listen to the devil in my head that controlled me into ruining my nails. (This was about 5 or 6 years into the process). I have no idea how it worked but I simply just stopped. I was the proudest girl in the world when I survived one week without peeling my nails. They kept growing and growing and growing until they were as long as this:
