How to stop biting nails and skin
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It was really bad during my teenage years I felt like I was biting my tounge off, it hurt but I could never stop doing it. I told myself I wanted to stop, and I just tried really hard not to do it and I stopped for awhile and it just came back today. And Im thinking maybe something is wrong with me, I'm trying to do some research to see why I do these things. I'm happy to see I'm not the only one, but I still haven't found any explanation as to why it happens.
I'm a high school kid who has experienced depression and is currently experiencing anxiety. You see, I used to have long, strong, thick nails. I was quite proud of them (mainly because they were my main self harm tools). But, due to anxiety, I started biting my nails down. Now, they don't even grow past the tip of my finger. I always keep them super short. I also bite off the skin around my nails, and try to tear away my cuticles.
What I did was I looked at a lot if pictures online of long, pretty nails and think to myself how MY nails could look like that if I stopped biting them. I started growing them out and was amazed at how nice my nails were starting to look. I now have nails about an inch past my fingertips. And I noticed as I was growing my nails out, that many people at my school have the same nail biting problem. I hope this helps!
I'm a 14 yr old girl with a great life most of the time, not much drama and i do well at school with stress only during the really big tests so i dont understand why i bite my nails and do so till they bleed. I've bitten my nails since i was little and recently I have been trying everything i can think of to stop. The one main thing I've figured out is this addiction to biting my nails overcomes my willpower.
I remember being in kindergarten and learning about how it was unsanitary to bite your nails and feeling ashamed. I also remember my mom putting bitter nail polish on my nails to try to keep me from biting them because I was biting them every day. I was doing it at the earliest point I can remember.
I could really use some specific advise on how to get my 9yr old son to stop biting his nails.
His fingers looked terrible. He has no nails. His fingers look sore. He likes to bite his nails while
watching a movie and off an on through out the day. He'll do it in the car. He'll do it when he is
bored. I have painted the liquid on his hands in the past and that has not worked. I'm to the point
of having him wear gloves in the house. I don't know what to do.
If one is ever even close to growing back to a normal length, I always seem to bite it back again. Also, the skin around my nails and fingertips is absolutely shredded. I push and tear off my cuticles, and tear the skin off of my fingertips. I've been doing it for so long that the fingerprints on my thumbs are nearly gone, with only pink, shiny callous left behind. My fingers are all scarred and bloody thanks to this new habit, and I still have three years to go in high school.
My reasons for biting my skin and nails i believe is because i am constantly anxious and over think things in my head which cause me to be stressed out. My main problem at the moment is with this habit and it is most probably due to the fact that i have some kind of obsessive disorder where i see putting my hands to my mouth as a means of comfort and self soothing and to be honest that is exactly the type of relief that i get when i do it.
I've bitten my fingernails my whole life since i was a little girl until they bleed and hurt and i pick at my skin as well. It's awful. Nail polish and stuff to paint on nails specifically to stop biting didn't help... Nothing helped until i started seeing a psychiatrist who prescribed me OCD drugs, but i was already well into my 20s so I'm not sure what a pediatrician can prescribe... But ask your doc about obsessive compulsive disorder.
I have bitten my nails for almost 25 years, since I was 6. I recently got myself to stop and it's been a good 2 months now since I've bitten them at all and I can honestly say I can't remember the last time I've had the urge to bite them. I probably had a moderate problem (bit my nails where they were always halfway down the nail bed but def more than a sliver of nail left). All I did was paint my nails with a nail strengthening clear coat EVERYDAY.
t seem to quit. For example, my worst is biting my nails and the skin around my fingers. I bite them CONSTANTLY and have tried everything to quit. (Fake nails, bad tasting nail solution, gloves, bandaids, nail polish... You name it) On top of that, I also pick the skin of my lips, bite the inside of my mouth, crack my fingers and toes and more!
I was reading online that constant nail biting and such bad habits could be classified as OCD.
I've been chewing my nails for years and finally managed to stop, but it has now occured to me that in front of my thumb nails, the skin in front of them is too high up. My nail is starting to grow into this skin. Is there anyway to fix this. I tried clipping the skin down so it wasn't so tall but it is very painful because skin is perfectly live and health, not dead or dry at all.
birty - I'm just going to say this bluntly. You won't be able to stop his biting if the only recourse is to suggest he might hug the child he bit.
I can't imagine trying to run a nursery under those guidelines. The children would be running amuck and banging each other over the head with tonka trucks with no consequences.
Best wishes.
I used to bite my nails a LOT and then started biting the skin around it and went further and further till it got to my entire FINGER and now theres a strange reddish bump thing on my thumb and fore finger...and its been there for years and it never heals! :( im really embarrased by it and i cant afford to go to a dermatologist because i live on welfare. and then theres a scar on my knee for a year now and it hasnt gone away! how can i fix these? please tell me!
Apply lots of moisturising cream to your hands and nails - even virgin coconut oil is brilliant; and wear cotton gloves at night to allow the moisturising cream to soak into your hands and nails.
Don't use any harsh chemicals on your hands. Wear protective cloves when filling the car with fuel. When you see your doctor, ask if he can order a blood test to check your Vitamin D levels to see if you need to have a supplement of that Vitamin and also eat jelly (jello).
I have nasty habit of biting nails, and occasionally skin next to nails. Two weeks ago pealed off (bit off) part of skin next to index finger, and my finger bled just above the nail area as the result of that pulling off skin (so it was not just thin layer of skin). Minimum 8 hours later I fingered girl (maybe 2 or 3 times for couple of minutes each time) and I rubbed my penis against her vagina (but i did it from behind, so head of my penis might have come in contact with her vaginal fluids).
Idk what to do, is it because I used to be a nail biter? I used to have really small nails cause I used to bite them a lot, but stopped biting them 5 years ago! The pink part has grown a lot since last year but it is growing upwards! It is really annoying and I have already low self esteem and this makes things even worse! Please tell me what to do, I really need help!
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