how do i live with a permanent disfigurement

my thumbnail on my right hand, is deformed looking and has grown back mostly with skin covering not nail, as i used to bite my nail off due to bad nervous problems, so it's my own fault really....but i was always vain and this disfigurement makes me down at times, as nothing can be done cosmetically to fix it, i don't think..

anyone else have a permanent disfigurement?

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LeopoldBloom · M

Both of my thumbnails have lines on them from old infections that damaged the matrix.

darkmere1983 · 46-50, M

@LeopoldBloom damaged the matrix? what do you mean?

LeopoldBloom · M

@darkmere1983 The part of your finger that the nail grows out of is called the matrix. Nothing to do with the movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(anatomy)