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Stop Nail Biting for Yourself

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Stop Nail Biting for Yourself

When people are nagging at you to stop biting your nails, it really doesn’t help. That doesn’t mean they are going to stop, because you have a habit of nail biting, and now they have a habit of nagging. This is a cycle you might find hard to break. The only person you need to stop biting your nails for is you. Your fingernails are a part of your body. You would like them to look like everyone else’s nails. Doubtlessly, you would like to stop looking down and finding a bloody chewed cuticle, and wondering how that could have happened. It is time to stop for your own peace of mind, and you can.

When friends and family start going on about your nails, it upsets you. It makes you feel uncomfortable, or as if there is something wrong with you, and this starts a new cycle of stress and nail biting. There is in fact, nothing wrong with you. Nail biting started as a method your brain found when trying to fix a problem.

At some point, probably as a child, you found yourself experiencing stress. When the human brain is over loaded with signals as it is during moments of anxiety, it can do one of two things. It can shut down completely, or trigger a response to the stress that relieves the tension in the mind and the body. This is actually a remarkable part of the mind itself, in that it handles a problem of overload so easily. This triggering mechanism is easy to spot in other people once you know what you are looking for, such as foot tapping, knee jingling, humming, and hair twisting. The next time you are stuck in a long line at the bank check out the behavior of people around you. This coping mechanism is an inherited human trait.

Now, that you understand the signal your brain was sending with the nail-biting trigger you can stop. You can find other methods of coping with tension or feelings of stress that don’t involve chewing on your nails. This is why substitution works so well in nail biting cessation. Just remember, you are in control of the behavior now, and you are stopping because this is your decision.