Biting Finger Nails

I also have no idea how to stop this :(.

The thing I find is that I'm so used to not having nails that when I make an effort to grow them it feels odd and I am compelled to shorten them. I think I have a very very compulsive personality though. However this thread has inspired me, I want to give it another go. Does anyone here feel like starting some kind of support group? Like a daily checkin or something?
 
abzo said:
I used to bite fingernails until this guy knocked me and I needed 7 stitches. He could've just asked me to stop biting his nails instead of resorting to violence.
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I like that guy :)

I can't stand seeing people biting nails.

I have slapped a few people's hands :o


I'd rather clean someone else's puke than watch someone chew their nails :mad:
 
abzo said:
I used to bite fingernails until this guy knocked me and I needed 7 stitches. He could've just asked me to stop biting his nails instead of resorting to violence.
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oh mein gott *falls of chair laughing*
 
i have never been one to bite or chew anything, i don't even chew bubble gum. my daughter used to bite her nails terribly until she got braces. she has stopped now since having her braces. must be that she couldn't chew her nails with them on.
 
I used to be a serial nail biter (started during my primary school years).

After school I went through a period where I was crying a lot and started using lavender essential oil because it helped me calm down. Months later I realised I wasn't biting any more. :)

I relapse every few years (as I did a few weeks ago). This time I also managed to shred my cuticles. Had forgotten about the lavender, but after a month of not being able to stop myself from biting, I started putting a drop on my wrist every day for a week or so - and it has helped me break the habit, again. :)

What also helps is keeping your nails neat, as some people have suggested. If something's catching somewhere I'll try to bite it off instinctively, so I carry a nail file everywhere. Trimming my cuticles also helped a lot with that part (although one is apparently not supposed to do that, since it can cause infection).
 
cerebus said:
I also have no idea how to stop this :(.

The thing I find is that I'm so used to not having nails that when I make an effort to grow them it feels odd and I am compelled to shorten them. I think I have a very very compulsive personality though. However this thread has inspired me, I want to give it another go. Does anyone here feel like starting some kind of support group? Like a daily checkin or something?
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When i did stop biting my nails, everything felt weird. Just the feeling of them while typing or using my mouse made me feel uncomfortable. I used to have to clip them super short so i don't feel them.
 
i cannot remember when last i cut my nails and the SO complains so i need to stop

anyone use that stuff they put for babies

it has a bad bad taste
 
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The_Unnamed said:
When i did stop biting my nails, everything felt weird. Just the feeling of them while typing or using my mouse made me feel uncomfortable. I used to have to clip them super short so i don't feel them.
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Haven't bitten nails since this thread. I'm gonna make it happen this time. If I put a pic of my fingers on here our dear celine would retch.
 
cerebus said:
Haven't bitten nails since this thread. I'm gonna make it happen this time. If I put a pic of my fingers on here our dear celine would retch.
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I was thinking of doing that also :p. Like a progress report.
Lets do it and i will get a mod to put a NSFW sign on the title :p. hahaha
 
So i have not had any of my nails for supper now for almost 3 weeks :D. (Well except my pinky finger on my right hand, it was ASKING to be eaten...)
They are starting to look respectable again. :).
 
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