Do you bite your nails when you feel nervous or upset?

I've never been much of a nail biter. But I do have a way to deal with unresolved emotions or stress. I either write in a journal (my favorite) or I clean house or organize something that has been bugging me.(like my sock drawer, hehe) I have thick, strong nails but I remember them being even healthier and prettier when I was pregnant as well. My hair even had a special luster to it. I loved being pregnant.

Well, when I am thinking about something that will make me nervous.. When I am deep into thought, this is when I will usually bite my nails..

I only ever bite my finger nails off if I break one of them or if they are getting too long and bugging me and I do not have any clippers nearby. My nails grow really fast. I was told once that tapping your fingernails on the table top helps to stimulate nail growth and makes them grow faster. I am not sure how much truth there is in that though.

I don't bite my nails and never have. But I do know a lot of people who do bite theirs, including my daughter. She started biting her nails when she was very young and now at 25 years old, she still does. I tried everything when she was a child, to get her to stop but nothing worked. I guess some habits can never be broken! I have always had nice nails and I always took care of them. But now I am working cleaning houses so my hands are always in water, so that makes my nails really thin and they break very easily. I mean, they aren't terribly bad but they aren't as nice as they used to be. Sometimes I wish I had better nails again and I try to take care of them to get them nice again. I put nail polish on them often because that makes them stronger when I have my hands in the water. but then the nail polish comes off and I have to do them again the next evening. So it is a bit much work sometimes and I don't do them every day.

I don't bite my nails at all. When I am nervous, I kept on walking around until I feel tired and had to sit then walk again. its difficult to grow long nails for me because I get irritated with a very slow grow but I grew them anyway. I put nail polish to make it strong. Before I changed it with different colors but now white or colorless will do. Take care =)

well i do cut my nails when i feel nervous.i also cut my name during any match when it is going to be a tifgt finish.

If I get nervous, I tend to chew on one finger nail. It's my pinky. Doesn't happen all the time. It's just a once in a while thing. Mostly I am too busy with my daughter. That occupies my thoughts. So my pinky nail gets saved most of the time. lol

i have never been a nail biter because i like my nails to grow but i never seem to have 10 beautiful, long nails all at once. a few always break and i do not have the time or money for manicures. my son bites his nails and the skin around them and it drives me nuts and i keep telling him to stop. i think it may be bit of a nervous habit in his case.

The best tips for growing nails would probably be a fortnightly visit to the salon for a manicure. It's really hard to grow long nails properly. And biting your nails is not of any help. ;) Luckily, I bite my lips when I'm nervous.

My nails seem to always break off at the base of the nail on the side. They have always done this even when I was pregnant. So I do not know why they are weak there, they just are. So when they start to tear I usually end up ripping them off and then filing them down. I hate to havea rough spot on the nail that can snag on something. That is one of my pet peeves. I seem to keep longer nails when I have a nail file and I can smooth them down quickly.

Yes, i bite my nails when i get nervous or upset. I used to bite my nails all the time when i was young. When am feeling bored, i bite my nails. When am feeling nervous i bite my nails. And am starting to stop from biting my nails when all my gf's show me their fingers. They say their finger is pretty because they don't bite their nails. And they said they don't like biting it. And from that moment, i told myself 'stop biting your fingers ieeko if you want to have a pretty fingernails ! ' And now i don't bite my nails like i used before. For necessary only, like nervous and all. But whatever it is, i still bite my nails :PP And yeah, i think tapping your fingers could help it grows faster.

If you can't control it in any other way then better bite a pencil than nails.

I grew my nails 2 months ago & was so happy with them & then i had a dentist appointment & oops there went the nails! When I want to try & grow them again I paint them because if they are painted that influences me not to bite them, but to be able to paint them I need them to have a bit of length, so I buy loads of false nail sets & keep renewing them when they need it - so it doesnt give me a chance to bite them, I find I can grow them quite long if I do if for long enough lol =)

Lol i do this so often without even noticing it, And when someone comes up to me and says dude stop biting them. Im always like what ?? oh.... EWWW... Its kinda weird everyone does it one time or another unconsciouly its kinda strange, but yet it sometimes helps in different ways. thnx for making me think about this -.-