Do you bite your nails? / myLot

Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

May 28, 2016 3:22pm CST

I have a meeting with 3 colleagues. While we were discussing plans about sales and marketing, this beautiful girl while listening she is biting her nails. Is it a habit or a sickness? or maybe she's not aware that she's doing it. I read from blog of webmd.com a topic about why we gnaw our nails? Stress and boredom are the main nail-biting culprits for most people. The habit is often a way to ease anxiety or to keep at least one part of the body occupied while the mind lacks interest. Frustration and loneliness are additional emotional triggers that can lead to nail biting. Some research suggests genes may play a role. I'm not sure which one is on her mind. But I guess lacks of interest is the answer why my colleague is biting her nails.

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Jose Juan

@quantum2020 (12041)

• Ciudad De Mexico, Mexico

28 May 16

I used to bite them when I was a child and during my teen age years. I don´t do it often, in the present; however, occassionally, I do.

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Grace

@valleyofberaca (299)

• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

29 May 16

I think during my high school days I bite my nails when the teacher called my name for recitation.

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Jose Juan

@quantum2020 (12041)

• Ciudad De Mexico, Mexico

29 May 16

@valleyofberaca Yes, it always occurred to me that whenever I got nervous, it would always follow a bite of nails.

Cherr

@cherrylicious (394)

• United Arab Emirates

28 May 16

Biting if nails showed of too much tension.

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Cherr

@cherrylicious (394)

• United Arab Emirates

28 May 16

And added to that as per the old people its a badluck when u do it

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superstition

Grace

@valleyofberaca (299)

• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

29 May 16

@cherrylicious what kind of bad luck?

Grace

@valleyofberaca (299)

• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

29 May 16

Indeed! Tension comes especially during school recitation or group report.

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praveenkumar06

@praveenkumar06 (4077)

• Hyderabad, India

6 Jul 16

i do bite my nail when i fell stress and while i thinking i do more , even i get blood of nails , it can't be control it when we are stress

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Grace

@valleyofberaca (299)

• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

6 Jul 16

Really? If there's a blood involve out of biting nails, that's more than stress or let say a situation that has no solution and sometimes out of our control.

Susan

@HazySue (39268)

• Gouverneur, New York

2 Jun 16

@valleyofberaca I used to bite my nails. I think it was a combination of nervousness and habit for me. Thank goodness I stopped years ago.

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Grace

@valleyofberaca (299)

• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

2 Jun 16

It's good that you were able to overcome it. Because this is a habit that we are not aware doing even in public.

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Susan

@HazySue (39268)

• Gouverneur, New York

3 Jun 16

@ valleyofberaca it is a bad habit. I had to be aware of my hands at all time for a long while.

DEV D

@abhinalstrikr (4111)

• India

6 Jul 16

whatever but its bad habbit

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Grace

@valleyofberaca (299)

• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

6 Jul 16

Indeed! Parents should correct their child whenever they saw this kind of habit. It is bad as well as unhygienic.

Grace

@valleyofberaca (299)

• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

8 Jul 16

@abhinalstrikr It depends on the grown up if they want to quit this kind of habit. It's a matter of decision.

DEV D

@abhinalstrikr (4111)

• India

8 Jul 16

@valleyofberaca yeah you are right,but the grown up should quit it as frustrations and worries does it

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khara

@stephjoy (759)

• Philippines

29 May 16

no i never bite nails since in my childhood

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Grace

@valleyofberaca (299)

• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

29 May 16

I remember now,I bite my nails during my childhood days, if I make a mistake then my mom confronted me. I did not answer to her question. I response by biting my nails.

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khara

@stephjoy (759)

• Philippines

29 May 16

@valleyofberaca yeah, its really funny

snowy

@snowy22315 (180693)

• United States

28 Jun 16

As I lifelong at least ocassional nail biter, I would agree with the above analysis.

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Grace

@valleyofberaca (299)

• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

28 Jun 16

Indeed! sometimes when we are stressed and felt tension and so on. :-)

Dominique

@dodo19 (47317)

• Beaconsfield, Quebec

28 May 16

It's never been one of my habits. It was one of my sister's though. She used to bite her nails, and it took her a few attempts to stop. I believe she now no longer bites them.

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Grace

@valleyofberaca (299)

• Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

28 May 16

it's good that she was able to stop it.

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Jotomy

@Jotomy (6322)

• India

31 May 16

I will bite when i am so tensed or in curious, it is my habit, many times my father scolded me but it is still there till today.

Raine38

@Raine38 (12250)

• United States

28 May 16

There is only one reason why I bite my nails, though rarely - when I have a broken nail and I have no nail cutter handy

. Other than that, I do not have this habit.

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

29 May 16

I never bite my nails.

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Fleur

@Fleura (30391)

• United Kingdom

29 May 16

Thankfully no, that is not a habit I ever developed. Perhaps because I have very hard and tough nails so it is too much like hard work! My partner's mother always bit her nails until she managed to give it up recently around age 55.

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