I Bite My Nails

It's far more common than you think.

I chew my fingernails and pick at my toenails. I remember that when I was very young my Mom tried to stop that habit by painting my nails with nail gloss or something like that. Ugh, that stuff tasted nasty!  But, you get used to...

Unfortuanlty yes i do.. its a nervous habit of mine.. I have gotten better over the years but yesi  im a biter

I started biting my nails in kindergarten. Im a follower and my friend did it so i did it too. She stopped but i couldnt. Now i bite my nails without even knowing. i tried to stop before and i did for awhile but i started it again. Im...

I am 26 years old and have bitten my nails for as long as I can remember.  My nail biting is on the extreme end of the spectrum.  Painful, throbbing, bleeding fingers is something I have grown used to.  What bothers me...

I think I've been biting my nails since I came out the womb...I bite them just because sometimes.I bite them when I feel stressed,angry, or sad. I'm always biting my nails no matter what..there are periods when I try to stop.Then it...

My boyfriend and I are both SERIOUS nail biters!  I mean if even a little sliver of nail grows up I bite or peel it off.  There is lots of blood and sometimes clear liquid.  I love to peel my nails.  And yes, it...

I wrote a blog here a few years ago about being a life-long nail-biter but I didn't tell the whole truth.   This was about the time I became comfortable talking it since I realized I was part of a universal community...

I only bite my nails when i am stressed. Its not often but when i do, it can get bad. I have chewed my nails so badly these last few weeks that all of my fingers now hurt. Everything i touch hurts my fingers right now, reminding me...

Heya,  I've been biting since i can remember, my mum bites and so does my aunt, both me and my brother bite and 1 out of 2 of my aunts kids(dunno how he got away without biting tbh).

I've tried many times to stop biting, once...

Hi I'm 13 years old and I have been biting my nails since I was 3 so that's 10 1/2 years and its my form of relaxer cuz I have high stress anxiety adhd and lots of other crap to deal with but I'm trying so hard to stop but I am doing...

Im 17. I have been biting my nails for as long as i remember. When i look at others that bite their nails, i wonder if their joking or not. I would have theirs any day!
I am so sick of biting my nails. They so ugly. My nails are so...

I've been biting my nails since I was a little boy. When i watch sports I bite my nails. When I played sports in high school I bit my nails. Alot of the time I don't even realize I'm doing it. This may be gross, but I even clip my...

my nail biting is out of control, I have seen some nails on girls, who say they bite them, wow I'd be so proud to have nails like those, mine are seriously bitten, most are so low they throb and sometimes bleed, my parents hated my...

This is the reason I got sick. I mean think about it... You go out in public, touch a million things millions of other people have touched, then you go and put your hands in your mouth? It is discusting. I wash my hands, I don't eat...

Well ive been biting my nails since i was 3 my mum used to do it so i copied her now i cant seem to stop my nails r so short that most guys have longer nails than me :( i have recently begun wearing acrylic nails but now i have started...

I am a married man who has been a compulsive nail-biter since childhood.  My mother constantly nagged me about it.  My father insisted I would outgrow it.  It became such an issue that I thought there were something...

Managed to get all my nails and toenails off and have nice balls of skin at the end of my toes and hands - looks so cute - I continue to show them off to other people - it's so satisfying when people recognise my work:)

Ever since I was 4 years old (now almost 15) i've been biting my nails. I first started doing it because I thought my nails were too long. My mom used to ask "why are you biting your nails?" And I just replied "because theyre to...