Stop Biting Nails

I've often though of nail biting as a similar problem shared among a lot of people. Thus regrading all the ways to stop biting nails suitable for most of these people. It was only recently that I've read a nail biting research, that I've realized the big difference between mild nail biting and extreme nail biting.

Mild nail biting consists of just occasional biting. The extreme form may cause bleeding, scarring, pain and possible infection. In clinical research, the extrem form has been compared to various nervous habits such as thumb-sucking, giggling and twitching. It can even be identified with self-mutilating such as scab-picking, skin-scratching and hair-pulling.

The research offered a way to distinguish mild and extreme nail biters:

"Heart rate was measured while a person observed a film of a person either biting their nails or pulling their hair. Those who were considered mild nail biters had no increased heart rate while watching a person bite their nails. Similar to hair pulling, severe nail biting had increased heart rate while watching the film, and a minimum release when the activity was completed. This study allowed people to categorize severe nail biting with hair pulling."

This pretty much blew me away. The idea that some people would react so intensely to nail biting shows that there might be something else "in there" besides the actual act of nail biting.

This could suggest that while mild nail biting may address their problem with sympton related solutions, extreme nail biters may have to deal also with some psychological aspect of their life and behavior in order to stop biting nails. Stress and anxiety are some of these aspects.

Here's the full research done by the University of St. Francis: http://www.stfrancis.edu/srsymposium/projects/swrk/bmutz_etal_swrk.pdf

Happy to hear your thoughts about this issue.

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