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Bad Habits
I've been biting my nails pretty bad recently. I stopped for a few months, but then started doing it again. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas that I could use to stop myself from biting my nails. I've already tried putting that stuff that tastes like crap on my nails, I still bit them. Help? D: What bad habits do you have? |
╔═════════════════════════════════╗ (｡◕‿◕｡) I have a terrible problem with picking at myself. Where I pick at sores on my body and make them worse and last alot longer, find little marks on my legs, arms, chest and pick at them until they become sores and scabs. It's like a thing I do out of boredom and I do this so frequently that my legs and chest have sores all over them and they don't go away at all, just get worse and worse and make me look disgusting naked. I go at times with not doing it but it doesn't last that long. I wish I knew what to say about your nail biting problem. But I can only think of finding something else to do when that urge comes and you start it. This way your hands are busy with something else and so is your mind. It might work, I do that at times with my problem and it does work, but it's something you have to keep doing and keep remembering to do. ╚═════════════════════════════════╝ |
I used to have the same problem... and then I got acrylic nails. I 'bout damn near broke my teeth on 'em! I stopped biting them because I feared for my teeth. That's how I kicked the habit.
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Ah, I've been an on-again-off-again nail biter since I was very, very young. In my case it's a nervous habit that I can't seem to stop. I've gotten better over the years with a couple different tactics.
1) Paint your nails ~this helped me for a while since it was a paint to have to redo the polish if I bit them. It also tastes pretty vile. 2) Chew gum ~often times if there's something already in my mouth I wouldn't go after my nails again. Also, if it's not a nerves thing, but an oral thing this'll fill that gap. 3) Get an abusive friend. ~my best friend and roommate have standing orders to smack my hands if I start chewing on my nails. After the fifth time I just can't even think about it around them...it stings! However, the best thing you can do is pinpoint WHY you're biting them and work on getting that removed. Mine was due to nerves, mostly at home, growing up. Now that I don't live with my parents I don't have that need. When I'm in a particularly stressful time or place I make sure to sit on my hands, or hold something in them so I'm not tempted to snack on my nails again. It won't always work, but it makes a biiiiiig difference. |
╔═════════════════════════════════╗ (｡◕‿◕｡) Reyoki's idea is a great one. That would definatley stop you from biting your nails. ╚═════════════════════════════════╝ |
@ Saiyouri: I use to pick at scabs when I was younger. I don't know why, but I did. I stopped thankfully. D: @ Reyo: My nails are so short that putting fake nails on them is probably impossible. @ Fey: I'll tell my friends and boyfriend to smack me when they catch me nibbling on my nails and I'll see if I can get a massive pack of gum at Costco. Andddd, I'll buy some nailpolish asap. |
╔═════════════════════════════════╗ (｡◕‿◕｡) I'm hoping to stop soon. It's a bad habit and I do it alot when I'm bored. It calms me and gives me something to do. I really am trying to find something to occupy myself when the urge comes over me, but it's so hard to do. ╚═════════════════════════════════╝ |
That's how I feel when I try to stop biting my nails. It's hard. I bite them when I'm nervous or anxious. |
╔═════════════════════════════════╗ (｡◕‿◕｡) Here's hoping we both can overcome our habits. ╚═════════════════════════════════╝ |
I hope so... I bite my nails so badly that it hurts to text, type and open things sometimes. |
╔═════════════════════════════════╗ (｡◕‿◕｡) Oh my that is really bad. I really hope you can find something that might work for you to stop. Reyoki's idea might work though. And finding things to do when you notice yourself doing it might also help too. When I notice what I'm doing, I try to find something to do right away because I know I can pick at my sores for hours if I wanted to. I have just purple spots on my chest now in alot of places from picking at the sore so much that there isn't a sore there anymore, just a purple spot >.<; I know keeping myself really busy, even if I don't cross stitch and just mess around on my laptop works to keep me occupied so I don't pick at myself. ╚═════════════════════════════════╝ |
I used to have the same bad habit as you. I forced myself to stop by gluing on those long fake fingernails that girls like to buy. It feels weird biting them, plus I spent money on it, so eventually it made me stop. Maybe the same will help for you? Sadly, however, that lead to me biting the skin around my nails. xD Currently have not found a way to break this habit. |
I remember I used to bite my nails almost all of the time when I was younger. I dont do that anymore though. I cant think of any bad habits I have now though >_<
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I've a bad habit of picking my skin as well.
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I bite my nails as well. I hate how they feel after using nailclippers so I use my teeth. I really need to stop. lol
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If it's a reaction to anxiety or stress maybe you should find out what's stressing you in the first place? Mine was my parents, and there wasn't much I could do about them when I lived at home. Is it school? work? people in your life? Try to get to the source and work on overcoming it, then the habit will go away.
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All of the above. My family can be... really ridiculous sometimes. Especially my grandmother and my mother's entire side. :/ And my mother. I deal with her shit every day. You think that I would be use to it but I'm not. |
Try chewing gum instead. It'll at least keep your mouth busy.
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you NEVER get used to family stress. I'm over 30, out of the house and out of their drama, but I still get stressed any time they drag me back in. Try working out a new way to work over the stress. Gum, toothpicks, something that's a bit less self-abusive(it's just nails, but still). If you can mentally make the change over you'll switch to the less detrimental habit.
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I'm going to start getting myself some gum to distract myself. |
I have a similar thing with sores too. But most of the time it's from mosquito bites gone wild. Usually I scratch/pick at them more when I'm stressed. And I have a habit of scratching even if I don't itch, again out of stress.
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I have a LOT of bad habits.
I injure myself unintentionally... all the time. Like run my hip into the computer desk, or stub the same toe four times in a day. But things I do that are on purpose and that are just plain annoying? I pick at my cuticles, chew the inside of my lip until its raw, |
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