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More than a Habit

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Control-It! Nail Biting Treatment®

Nail Biting is More Than a Habit

People who do not experience the frustration of a repetitive behavior like nail biting often do not understand. In their own way parents, spouses, and friends try to be helpful, but often only make matters worse. By accidently applying the wrong type of focus to the problem, they create a more difficult situation for the person with the “habit” of biting of their nails.

Looking at the situation seriously it becomes more evident that someone who is biting their nails isn’t doing this for attention, or because they want to harm their appearance. Usually, a person who experiences a desire to bite his or her nails is not completely aware of the behavior at the time. Their minds are preoccupied with other thoughts even as they examine, or chew on their nails.

Parents and love ones of someone with this problem see the outcome. The broken, jagged nails, nails bit down to the quick, and even skin broken around the edges of the nail. Especially in the incidences when nails are bitten down so low beneath the quick as to cause rawness and bleeding it would seem the nail bitter would stop the behavior due to the pain, but this is actually an indication the person who is nail biting has his or her mind directed elsewhere.

The most common reason for nail biting is stress of one form or another. The individual might gnaw on a nail during a test, or when confronted with a situation they don’t understand. To someone from the outside being stuck in traffic, or listening to a teacher out line a lesson doesn’t sound stressful, but for someone with this behavior this is a method of keeping focus, which is a type of agitation. A nail biter might also attempt to over fix a situation while biting the nails. Starting with a small imperfection of the nail he or she can’t stop the behavior until a distraction focuses attention elsewhere.

Fortunately, with some understanding of the real cause of nail biting it is possible to help someone find relief not only from the nail biting itself, but also from the reactions that trigger the behavior.