Do You Bite Your Nails When Your are Tense or otherwise?

I have never bitten my nails, sweetie. That is a nasty habit and not healthy at all. I wonder if people realize how many germs are under your fingernails. And they bite that? eeeewwww. TATA.

Hi dear, I hate doing this. But sometimes tempted to do so. I have a habit of cutting the nails 10-12 days. But certain times, it may not work out. But when I see the excess length than what I like, I fee irritated. Last week itself it happened. I didn’t like the extra length of 2 of my fingers and while walking I started to shape it by just giving a cut on the side of my nail. Slowly I remove it and slightly shaped with my other fingers. All I managed to do well, but I hate to do it. Also, I was very particular that nobody was noticing it what I was doing. Even today also I thought of cutting the nails, as it is excess of normal length. However, it may happens sometime, when we may forget at home to cut it neatly with the nail cutter. Regards, Thank-s

I dont actually like bite them to chew the down to make them short but when I am nervous I kind of nipple them a little between my teeth. It doesnt damage them but it makes me feel better when I feel out of place and dont know where to put my hands especially when I dont have pockets. My son must have pretty bad nerves hes chewed his nails down on his fingers since he was a little baby. I never have to cut his nails.

You know what thesids, I have always had really lovely nails, the talk of all friends. For nine months now that I have been unemployed, I do not know what is wrong with me. At my age now I am starting to bite my nails. It is really upsetting me as I never did this as a child or teen. Ugh, darn stress. I suppose I could probably buy one of those stress thingys to keep my fingers occupied. As if myLot does not doe that already. HA!

i never had this mannerism or bad habit before though most of my friends do. It's true that it shows lack confidence or nervousness, but sometimes you just don't know you're already doing it, because you're already used to. flipping of hair and touching my nose is my mannerism. even my hair is neatly brushed i keep on flipping it and touching it. Maybe there are just somethings not that easy to remove.

Well I still do, as a bad habit .

wow a nice thing to share..... mee almost all da tyms i wud love 2 do it ....but ppl stare at me like a crazy guy.. so i just feel shy and jus stop it

I do not have this habit, I find that it is not hygienic. I have many friends who bite their nail when they are in a deep thinking. Even now they are still having that habit. Many people are doing it without them realizing it. Actually this is a very bad habit because 1) it is very unhygienic, 2) you will have very bad looking nails. I normally will trim my nail once a week. So I do not have long nail to bite..

Good discussion my friend, When i am get tensed i bite my nails.

hi , no i don't have a habit of biting my nails . i keep my mind occupied so that i don't have the time to look for something to get hold on to.

lol..i too hav this same habit of bitin my nails ..oftenn.. and and especially wen m tensed .. i even scratch my head .. i sweat a lot.. i feel restless.. jst the same way wen i was in my skul days .. my habits havnt changed!!! wink

I had this habit when I was in primary school. My neighbor told that put nail polish to nails and I will come out from this habit, you know what it worked. Now, I started to keep my nails long and give shape to it. Also, I started to put nail polish in different style. Obviously, now there is no matter to byte my nails.

When I am in a difficult situation,or stress out I bite my nails. Thanks God I am learning to control myself thinking about all the germs that may have in my hands, so I try not to do it whenever I realize that I am biting my nails.

I used to bite my nails when I was in grade school and I knew I was doing it but, didn't know why. I think is was nervousness. My stepdaughter also did it when she was in grade school. Now when I see people doing it, I think it's nasty but, understand why.

i pick the skin around my nails when i am bored because i find i cannot sit still.

no... not at all........ i think that is not a good habit to follow.... i alwaya use to play with my hair when am in tenseion ......

Thank go, i hver had the habit of biting nails, but but my elder sister has the habit and still bits her nails at 36. I find it very silly cos apart from being a bad habit it is also contributes to bad looks of your hands.

there may be few donot cases ,but i donot do,i prefer lonely place lor go to sleep in order to aviod wrong decision or confrontation ,for which i may have to regret later ,thanks for sharing.