Can anyone help me with this issue I am having?!
Question: Can anyone help me with this issue I am having!?
I have been biting my nails since before I can remember!. I just realized a few days ago that I only bite my nails!.!. the nail part when i'm bored!. I bite and pick my skin around the nails when i'm nervous or stressed!. And I don't mean little here and there I mean bleeding and then they look really gross!. I have a therapist, but I've known her since I was 12 and she doesn't help me anymore!. It's to the point where she has now become a friend and not my doctor!. I need a new one, but the one i'm at now is free and I can go whenever I want!. They are a non-profit organization!. I don't know!. I feel so stressed at work all the time and i get so worked up over all these things!. I swear if my year keeps going like it has been, I wont have fingers left!. They'll just be bone!. I don't know what to do!. I want to pull my hair out! Does anyone have any advice for me!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
I used be a bad nail and skin biter!. It got to the point where I had a couple of infections (very yucky pus)!.
I kept thinking how absolutely revolting they looked and tried allsorts of things to try and stop, but nothing worked!.
In the end I stopped biting them one at a time!. It was hard at first and initially used to put a band aid around the one I was growing, this worked as a reminder and once the nail got to a certain length and I saw how my nails could look it did get easier!.
Then when you get a full hand of nice nails and you still have a manky looking one you just start one at a time on the other hand!.
I still sometimes get the urge to bite if I break a nail but I carry a file around with me and this stops it!.
I hope its works for you as it did for me !.!.!. good luck :)Www@Answer-Health@Com
I kept thinking how absolutely revolting they looked and tried allsorts of things to try and stop, but nothing worked!.
In the end I stopped biting them one at a time!. It was hard at first and initially used to put a band aid around the one I was growing, this worked as a reminder and once the nail got to a certain length and I saw how my nails could look it did get easier!.
Then when you get a full hand of nice nails and you still have a manky looking one you just start one at a time on the other hand!.
I still sometimes get the urge to bite if I break a nail but I carry a file around with me and this stops it!.
I hope its works for you as it did for me !.!.!. good luck :)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Get a clear coat nail strengthener and paint both your nails and the skin around them with thick coats!. My boyfriend has OCD and does the same behavior as you until he digs holes in his nails!. We tried this and it has worked wonders!.
The nail strengthener will rebuild the damage and at the same time when you do this bored and nervous behavior the only thing you'll be able to pick and chew at is the polish and not your fingers!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
The nail strengthener will rebuild the damage and at the same time when you do this bored and nervous behavior the only thing you'll be able to pick and chew at is the polish and not your fingers!.Www@Answer-Health@Com