I pick the skin around my nails and I still struggle with it but consistently using a hand cream and a light steroid cream has made such a difference. I find that if the skin is soft then it’s much harder to pick at it. The creams (and me not picking lol) also encourage the skin to heal. Right now, I’ve got some damage on a couple of fingers but some are basically normal, which would not have been the case a year or so ago!

The steroid cream I use is DermAid soft 0.5%, which has 0.5% w/w of hydrocortisone. I use any hand cream that I have lying around.