Talk:Nail biting

Shouldn't this be called "nail-biting"? STGM 09:11, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If that's more gramatically accurate, it's easy enough to do. --Icarus 05:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Addictive

I think nail biting is addictive. I mean, once I start, I can't stop. Maybe they have trace amounts of nicotine...*laughs*. The Republican 03:29, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I definitely think nail biting is addictive, maybe it's just me but I must have in insanely large case of chronic onychophagia :( I've actually been biting the SKIN off of my fingers... Solutions solutions solutions :( - Blackguard 02:01, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I truly agree that nail biting is addictive and anyone who does not understand the difficulties in stopping the habit should not pass judgement.

Hm, me too with the skin thing...The Republican 02:20, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's addictive. I find myself biting my nails a lot, and I catch myself to avoid biting the nails down so far that they bleed or, as it is at this very moment, cause a throbbing pain. I bite skin, etc. Goofyman 03:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's me too I'm 14 when i was younger i bite the skin around my nails.PrincessD

Can anyone provide a citation for the statement that nail biting can be a sign of anger towards parents? Frankly, I think that is a totally illogical claim, but I've heard stranger. And by the way, I bite my nails compulsively, as in bleeding/half-moon/band-aids compulsive. Is that considered an addiction, or just a habit? Is there a difference? Keramac

consistant nail biter

i am a nail biter i know it's bad for your health but i can't stop. ( i even think i bite my nails in my sleep) but i know you can get bitter nail polish you put on your nails to make it taste bad. i just can't find ours. any good luck to all nail biters who r trying to stop>

I have been biting my nails since I was two years old and the only thing I have found to help me stop is if I get artifical nails. my habit is so bad that now my child has started her own habit of biting her nails.

canabilism?

It does not break the taboo of cannibalism against eating parts of the human body, as the nails are not usually consumed.

I've never seen a nailbiter who spits out their nails after they bite them, and I definetly don't when I bite mine. Maybe I'm generalizing, but I think if it doesn't break canabilism it's because it's not a vital or large part of a human, id est, not an arm or leg. If you consider nail biting cannabilism whats to stop you from saying people who kiss aren't in some way eating each other alive?

Ditto on that-- I chew them into tiny bits and swallow them without realising it72.38.179.35 01:43, 23 April 2006 (UTC).[reply]

I know people that bite and spit. I'm bite and chew, myself. Anon, 27 April 2006.

I bite then play around with them in my mouth but rarely (usually only unintentionally) do I swallow them. Sometimes I leave them in piles so I can pick them back up later. Anon; May 01, 2006

Ew. I definitely don't swallow them, too hard (like eating...nails! ha!) 72.59.10.103

im a compulsive nailbiter, i bite til they bleed and i tear off the skin around my nails, and they are disgusting to look at. but i never swallow the nails! im gonna talk to my doctor about these medication ideas. i never knew you could take meds to quit nailbiting. i would've done it along time ago, its my worst habit. i find it disgusting, yet i cant quit. i am aggressive about washing my hands ALL THE TIME so that the nails are clean (in my mind) when i bite. 208.103.184.225 15:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

After reading this article i got the sudden urge to bite my nails. Though Nail biting for me is not as bad as Nose picking, just too bad they dont have patches for nail biters :P

Unsightly and Disgusting

Does anyone else object to these non-NPOV words? As a nailbiter, I take personal offense to them. It would be just as incorrect to say that the symptoms of leprosy are unsightly and disgusting because neither I nor a person suffering from leprosy can rightly be at fault for our "unsightly and disgusting" ways. I'm going to remove that sentence completely, if anyone objects, let us discuss it.--Lwieise -=- Talk to Me 07:56, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree...I had the same bad feeling reading the article. I bite my nails as well, but aside from the rare accident I think I take a lot of care with my appearance--I won't bite them down past a certain point (i.e. I don't go past the white part into the clear area), and I even try to make sure the nails are reasonably even with each other. Plus...I can see where nailbiting is a genuine problem for some people, but I don't take kindly to being classified as having some kind of disorder when I am not uncontrolled or dangerous about it. I mean, if I'm patient enough to be able to let them grow out to a certain point, even if it takes a few days of none being "biteable", I'm NOT a wild, compulsive nut job. And frankly in my case, I just don't think it's a big deal and I can't be bothered to quit. --Anonymous

Nail biting VS

I've never seen a person bite their nails during stress; however, I do notice a lot of people (including me) who bite the dead skin along the sides of their nails (the chewy tissue) and not the nail itself. There is a term for this tissue; but I don't know what it's called... I often only see nail biting in the movies, whereas, I have seen a lot more people bite this tissue instead of the nails in real life.I don't think they should be considered the same thing.

That term is "hangnail." DrVeghead 08:47, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

one of the citations needed could be, but deeper research wouldn´t hurt, is Terry M. McClanahan, author of "Operant Learning Principles Applied to Nail Biting" a 1995 study published in Psychological Reports i dont have access to the book, so this is as much as i can do

Haha....what a hypocrite!

"Why did you even put up a message on this disscussion board because you obviously have no idea as to what everyone here is talking about. Evenly 'trimming' your nails with your teeth does not make you a nail biter, it makes you lazy, nail biteing is more than an "I can't be bothered walking to get the nail trimmers" kind of attitude".

Clearly *you* are generalizing the disorder into something of a self-loathing, guilt-heavy personal issue. Not everyone who bites their nails is, as you so put it, "lazy".

Its akin to me making a generalization that since you are singular in your viewpoints and that you believe opinions to have a factual basis other than individual perspective that you are clearly stupid. It doesn't add up based on evidence, does it?

wikipedia talk pages are NOT discussion boards, and please sign your posts. 208.103.184.225 15:36, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed this from the article...

...mainly because isn't written to the same standard as the rest of the article. Before being returned I suggest it needs copy-editing and verifying.

The best method of stopping nail biting has shown to be friends of the nail biter, at every oppurtunity, to tell them how ugly nail biting makes them. It may seem cruel, but in the end, it's the best thing a friend or family member can do. A nail biter would rather hear the truth from a friend/family member than a complete stranger.

--Smalljim 23:08, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Numbers seem to high

44% seems way too high and we don't know if someone made it up. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.110.221.182 (talk) 23:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]