How to stop biting nails for good
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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 am a chemical engineer and I own and run an independent contract research laboratory. Like everyone who has posted a "help me" comment on this site, I too was a compulsvie nail biter for about the first 35 years of my life. The habit is currently being classified by the shrinks of the world as an OCD. May be some truth to that and it is possible that it afflicts Type A personalities more so than others. As may be.
awhh. i know the feeling.. i hide my nails around people. but not my boyfriend. his seen them to many times anyway lol i get anoyed when anyone tryed to stop me though.. i bite all around my nails, ive tryed liquid to make a horrible taste in ur mouth.. doesent work. i over come the taste >:D erm.. mustard.. and. gloves, but i end up taking them off.
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.
I am also a nail biter, age 47. Interestingly, when I was pregnant I stopped biting my nails. However, when I was no longer pregnant I began again. The nails come in stronger during pregnancy and I think hormones are involved in this somehow. I also find that if I cut out caffiene the biting can lessen a lot.
Too bad I love coffee.
I find that if I get a ragged edge on my nail, I am completely unable to combat biting and of course that just makes it worse.
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'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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
My son is 11 years, old and seems to have an issue with his hands and mouth. He has always put everything in his mouth to the point where teachers have mentioned it to me as a concern. I've struggled to stop him from biting is finger nails and toe nails, he eats his buggers and has an incredible appetite for unhealthy foods, i.e. anything with cheese, ice cream, fattening foods, candy. We are careful that we control his food intake so he's not unhealthy or overweight (about 85 lbs.
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.
My 3 year old daughter is capable of drinking from a sippy cup, drinks from cups, eats independently, goes to potty and is very very smart for her age.
The only problem is, she still wants to be breast fed, I can see it is when she is tired mostly or just for comfort.
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