How to stop biting nails and fingers
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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 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.
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 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 also bite off the skin around my nails, and try to tear away my cuticles. As you can probably imagine, this does lead to bloody messes on my fingertips. In school, while I'm doing work, I'll bite my nails while I'm writing/reading. Also, I'll start biting my nails during conversations with other people. The point is, whenever I'm in the process of biting my nails/skin, it seems like I can't stop.
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 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.
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.
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.
Drink plenty of water and get lots and lots of exercise. To quit biting your nails, get that kid stuff that tastes awful and put them on your fingers, plus make a concentrated effort not to do that. Instead, you can get into puzzles, like Soduku, it helps to release that pent-up energy in a similar way as chewing on your nails, it's a tiny goofing thing and much more adult.
I have done as much as i can to stop, i have bought gloves, used moisturizing creams, used those disgusting tasting liquids, used false nails, painted my nails and asked my mother and father to continuously remind me when i'm doing it so that i can consciously stop. However NOTHING as of yet has worked for me. My next step is looking to be hypnosis although that is too expensive right now.
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In regards to that, would you still maintain that it was no risk even if a part of my finger near my nail was exposed, bare, and reddish (possibly a little bleeding) from biting my nails/picking my fingers?
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