Do you bite your nails??

i bite my nails. always have. i wish i could stop but nothing works, even wearing fake ones didn't stop me biting them. And yes i've tried chillies

I had that habit. I remember when was in school my teacher use to check our nails. They regularly check if nails are cut or not and that they are clean. So when I get to know that my teacher is going to check nails today I use to bite it making sure they are not grown to big and they are clean. But soon after school I have stopped biting nails but not because it is bad but because I now have new habit of cutting nails regularly.

LOL, hey there saphrina. I have read many articles that tells that biting nails is one way of stress response. It is very common to kids, teenagers, and even adults that have the tendency to react to stress. Especially if one finds that he has a problem socializing. I can relate to that as I do that too when I was a kid. Yes, I know. It is a seriously bad and disgusting habit. There are also many ways of preventing and stopping this behavior. And also, biting nails does not stop hunger, LOL.

i also have this habit of biting my nails and i do it vigorously when i am in tension or under some pressure or if there is something tensed going on.... recently i jst finished biting all my nails when i was watching this cricket match and it went till the last delivery

I do it and I know it's disgusting but I'll usually start doing it without even realizing it. When I realize I stop. I usually pick at the skin around my fingers and it hurts really bad. It's one of the habits that are really hard to stop because it's psychological and I do it without even thinking.

"children commonly eating their nails, because they are children" ok leave it, will you please come to my college once, come to my classroom, there is a girl, dail she is eating her nails,,,, I think there is a small logic behind her nail eating, may be her boyfriend said that "you are looking so beautiful when you are eating your nails with childish face". hahahahahaah.......... lol.

Biting nails is probably caused by nervousness. That`s how my friend who bites nails tells me. She gets really nervous and she becomes unconscious that she`s doing it. It`s something that is a bad habit. I don`t know why they do it, but it`s not really a good idea. They probably have had this for a long time. It`s a hard thing to stop because they are unaware that they`re doing it.

Hehehehe. Yeah, i used to do that, but my mum slapped my hands every time i did, so i stopped. I guess it's just a case of bad habit not corrected at an early age. Your concern about the germs is true :)