Bitting nails

[audiophile5]

Is there anyone around here who has this terrible terrible habit of bitting nails?

I've had it since I was very little and find it rather impossible to stop - no matter what method I try, I keep going back to it involuntarily.

[Croconaw]

I do it a lot, but there isn't any harm in doing it.

[audiophile5]

No harm, yet my finger look horrible! I also sometimes peel the thin layers of skin around nails...

[PinkFloyd]

Yeah, I'm guilty of this...

[Plane And Simple]

Same here. Been doing it since I was little. My nails look fine because I don't bite then to the extremes but I can't seem to stop

[Hollywood]

I do it all the time, I don't even think about it.

[DisneyPrincess27]

I bite my nails everyday. Even the skin around it 😞

[Horatio Nelson]

I used to do this all the time, it was terrible.

One day I just kinda....lost interest.

I'm so glad I don't do it anymore.

[ksdnfkfr]

all the time

[audiophile5]

I bite my nails everyday. Even the skin around it ��

Me too! And it sometimes hurts so much because of this, it's almost a masochistic thing what I'm doing!!

[ValentinClarke]

I do it a lot, but there isn't any harm in doing it.

There is harm in doing it! The bacterua from your hands wull go into your mouth and make you sick.

[Poison_Ivy]

Sometimes when I'm nervous but not often to be honest

[JamesSuperBoy]

I just have a thing about cleaning nails -I hate to feel there is dirt or yuck stick in them even If i cannot see it

[backjruton]

I bite mine XD

[Lost in the Echo]

Unfortunately, yes. I've done it since about 9 or 10 years old, which was also around the time I was diagnosed with anxiety. So I assume there's some correlation there.

It's a pretty common habit though. I'd say more than 50% of people bite their nails.

[Love.Hate]

I do it all the time without even noticing i have. Not very girly but i dont care :P

[Body odah Man]

Is there anyone around here who has this terrible terrible habit of bitting nails?

I've had it since I was very little and find it rather impossible to stop - no matter what method I try, I keep going back to it involuntarily.

I do too. No harm in it

[Dalcourt]

I bite my nails, too...I manage to stop for a couple of weeks or months even sometimes but then I start again.

[vampirefreaks]

I used to bite my nails down to the nub, but I stopped for the most part.
I found that painting them helped me stop.

[Cook my Sock]

I dont bite my nails. But you can buy like a special nail paint that's designed to stop you, it's clear so you can't see it but apparently it tastes disgusting so every time you bite your nails you get a nasty taste in your mouth.

[Syvelocin]

I don't. I hate the taste of nail polish, so that broke the habit for me. I'm also too much of a perfectionist.

Doesn't stop me from tearing the hell out of the rest of my fingers though.

[RavleIncarnate]

Guilty as charged. Learned it from my sister. My nails look horrifying.