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Why Can't I Just Quit Nail Biting?

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Why Can't I Just Quit Nail Biting?

The scariest internal question to ask is “Why can’t I stop?” Everyone likes to feel in control, and most importantly, we all want to believe we have control over our own behavior. Having a bad habit undoes all of this. There is a behavior that you know is not good for you, and that you don’t want to continue, yet the actions repeat themselves seemly without your control. Nail biting is one those behaviors, that can seem more in control of you than you are of it. Know this, you can stop. It isn’t just a matter of will power, through it’s a matter of understanding why, and when the habit of biting your nails occurs.

The big question is the first one. Why do you bite your nails? Chances are good that you had this problem as a child, and that your parents or teachers asked you this a thousand times. Probably you gave an honest answer. “I don’t know.” Internally, however you do know that somehow biting your nails helped you in some way you couldn’t define. In a way the action of biting your nails, did help you, but now that you know you need to stop, you need to understand how it made you feel better.

It’s possible you don’t even remember the first time you started biting your nails. Again, most people start in early childhood. At some point, parents, friends, or teachers started to point out the signs of this behavior. Chewed down nails, bloody cuticles, or rough edges around the nail, and you probably brushed it off. If someone really nagged at you the problem just got worse, and explaining the problem, even internally was impossible.

To understand why, you have to remember you, just like everyone else had some unpleasant moments as a child. Perhaps you remember those moments when called on in school, or when you got into some trouble, or having to perform in the school play. You might remember having butterflies in the pit of your stomach, or perhaps you even felt a little sick. It’s natural in those moments of stress as young person to look for some relief. As strange as it might sound one common method of stress relief, is biting your nails.

This habit of nail biting is, in a way, hardwired into the human brain. This type of behavior is common all over the world, and is even seen in the animal kingdom. When we are nervous this is a behavior the brain accepts as method of calming down. Once you used this method as a child every time you became nervous or upset a part of your brain remembers this action and you repeated it.

Understanding how this reaction to stress got started can help you control it, but it’s only part of the solution. For most people who bite their nails this is an unconscious action. In other words by the time your realize you are biting your nails you’ve reached the quick.

Learning to stop is a matter of recognizing what causes you stress. It isn’t always those things you might think. Driving in a car, when you stop at light you might be thinking of a million things when you know you need to concentrate. Watching the light, you unconsciously start biting your nails. Sitting in church or in a meeting, it happens again.

When you recognize what triggers the action you can stop. By substituting another behavior like filing your nails, or squeezing a ball, instead of nail biting helps you become consciously aware of what you are doing. Self-control is a matter of understanding how stressful situations occur, and finding other methods of dealing with them. Find what triggers your nail biting and you can stop.

Why Can't I Just Quit Nail Biting?

Why Can't I Just Quit Nail Biting?

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