Nail-Biting Habit

[staticistic1114]

so i have never been the person to bite my nails ever and always found it repulsive to do so, like throughout all my childhood and teenage years i have never had this issue

ever since the covid lockdown i noticed that i started biting my nails, i ignored it the first few times bc i didnt think much of it. but now, the white parts of my nails are always gone............. it's gotten so bad that i cant stop it anymore

i noticed that it almost always happens while doing schoolwork, i really dont know what triggered it or if i should consult someone over this but i cant get myself to quit this habit

any of you have or had it? how did you stop it?

 

[Jam86]

i had a nail biting habit for sooo long, ever since i was a child
last year i decided to just paint my nails and now i've stopped
i used to hate girly things like painted nails but it did help ☆

 

[Romaki]

I had that problem as a kid. I started cutting my nails so short that it wouldn't be appealing to me anymore and after a couple months of not doing it the desire to do so disappeared.

 

[Paperboy012305]

I was a victim of this, until I saw a video of what can happen to people when they bite their nails. I immediately stopped right after.

 

[MyLifeIsCake]

Ooof I used to do this, it was pretty bad. I had bit my nails down to almost no whites. Some people do when they're nervous, however I found it was when I was bored or interested in something (like watching a movie or doing classwork). I eventually stopped when I found I liked to scrape under my nails just as much, now I have them much longer heatlhier nails but still scrape under them constantly. Try to find something that keeps your hands busy or even paint over them so that you don't try to mess up the paint.

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

my nail biting is pretty bad, i bite them a lot out of a nervous habit. sometimes i get nervous because i feel like theyre too long and other times its because of general anxiety. painting them stops me from doing it for a couple of days but ill always feel the need to

 

[staticistic1114]

I was a victim of this, until I saw a video of what can happen to people when they bite their nails. I immediately stopped right after.

l-link me..

Post automatically merged: May 3, 2020

im bad at painting my nails but if it helps I'll try that

 

[Paperboy012305]

l-link me..

Post automatically merged: May 3, 2020

im bad at painting my nails but if it helps I'll try that

Sorry, but it's been 3 years since I last saw it. I can't remember the link to it. Apologies.

 

[LadyDestani]

I have a horrible nail biting habit and I've never been able to stop it. It extends to biting the skin around my nails as well, so if the nails are trimmed down or painted, it doesn't help because I still bite the skin. It started when I was around 12 or 13, I think, and I'm still doing it at 40 years old. I usually do it when I'm watching something on TV or when I'm anxious about something.

 

[staticistic1114]

I have a horrible nail biting habit and I've never been able to stop it. It extends to biting the skin around my nails as well, so if the nails are trimmed down or painted, it doesn't help because I still bite the skin. It started when I was around 12 or 13, I think, and I'm still doing it at 40 years old. I usually do it when I'm watching something on TV or when I'm anxious about something.

that sounds like me, even with nail polish i have a bad habit of peeling it when im anxious too

 

[Loubelle]

I don't really bite my nails, but I do pick my cuticles which is horrible. It's something I have done for as long as I can remember (maybe like 5?) and I'm almost 17 now, haha. It's caused some issues with my nails, but that doesn't seem to be stopping me ;-; Also I kind of just pick at them throughout the day, all the time, so I'm not quite sure if it's a stress thing, or maybe a boredom thing, or maybe both :v

 

[Corrie]

I used to suck my fingers when I slept which was a pain because I was asleep so I didn't know I was doing it. It got to the point where I'd have teeth marks in my skin. It took years after I stopped for the marks to fade. I ended up putting bandaids on my fingers and that helped me stop. Not the same thing as nail biting but it might help.

I now bite my lip and rip/pick the skin off them til they bleed. This is harder to stop but I've found that I don't do it if I put on Chapstick. Related lol

 

[nintendofan85]

I do it, and I bite the skin around them too, as part of compulsions from my OCD...

I have been biting my nails for a long time, dating all the way back to 2006, when I started 1st grade. It wasn't until 2013, however, when I was in 7th grade, that the biting of the skin started. At the beginning of 2013, my OCD symptoms really kicked in, and in all honesty, I blame it due to traumatic experiences I had regarding my father's treatment of me in late 2012, which was during that school year (2012-2013, again, 7th grade for me).

 

[staticistic1114]

I used to suck my fingers when I slept which was a pain because I was asleep so I didn't know I was doing it. It got to the point where I'd have teeth marks in my skin. It took years after I stopped for the marks to fade. I ended up putting bandaids on my fingers and that helped me stop. Not the same thing as nail biting but it might help.

I now bite my lip and rip/pick the skin off them til they bleed. This is harder to stop but I've found that I don't do it if I put on Chapstick. Related lol

we're on the same boat on the lip biting, I'm doing it rn as we speak

 

[Xara]

i used to have a really bad nail-biting habit, typically worsened by stress and/or anxiety. while i don’t really have any tips for you, the main thing that got me to stop was painting my nails - i don’t like the taste of nail polish and so, having painted fingertips kinda helped to curve my nail-biting habit. and once i had my nails grown out, i noticed that i’ve come to hate the look and feel of my fingernails being nubs, again, which is the main reason for me no longer biting them.

 

[namiieco]

I would bite my nails really badly they would bleed when i was a kid so my parents made me wear gloves until I fell out of the habit. Instead I bite the skina round my nails now lmao

 

[Lazaros]

i had a nail biting habit before i got my braces around five years ago (i, unfortunately, still have ‘em) - they make it literally undoable and i’m kinda glad. i’d just bite them off all the time when they got too long, at least in my opinion.

my new habit of coping with stress is pulling out my eyebrows. i do still have them because it’s not as bad as the nail biting but oof.

 

[locker]

I use to bite them to the point they would hurt, I found I did it unknowingly when I felt stressed. What helped me stop is you can buy a clear nail polish that tastes bad so ever time you go to bite you are reminded to stop, I had to use the polish for about two weeks to break the habit. I’m a dude so I went with clear nail polish.

 

[N a t]

I have NEVER been a nail biter because it personally grosses me out, but I still have a nervous habit of picking at my nails. Like this is probably nastier or weirder than nail biting but I basically just tear up the nail on a finger or a toe by using my other nails because I don't often like to put things in my mouth. At least not if it isn't food. I usually wait till I'm at home and do it to my feet though because I don't want people to think my hands look gross, but since I'm already self conscious about my feet I don't let anyone except my family and girlfriend see them anyways. I don't do it often but sometimes when especially stressed or bored I will pick at my nails, and also if one is already broken somehow...

 

[sleepydreepy]

I'm a germaphobe so I never put my hands in my mouth, but instead I pick the skin around my cuticles. It's gotten really bad recently, I now always seem to have a scab or bandaid on my right thumb. Its a vicious cycle because as the skin heals, it leaves a scab or dead skin/hang nail behind that is just asking to be picked off, then I start bleeding again, and it repeats. If it continues to get worse I think I will seek help...