biting your nails short

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Thought i'd out it in here cause it makes me miserable. Its horrible, when you have like 3 fingers that are short. I'm cutting, filing or biting them, and thinking "ok, thats enough", but just keep on going till they are bare. Ugh.

I'm the same. I would post a picture of my nails but I don't want to frighten people. It's a stim thing.
Best you can do is try and do something else that isn't as bad.

I used to bite my nails so short that the ends of my fingers would bleed. I ended up stopping it by using nail polish 'cause it makes your nails taste nasty; one of my guy friends had a similar problem and he used clear nail polish, so no one noticed.

I used to be pretty bad with nail biting. I don't know how I got out of the habit honestly. I hope that by thinking about it again I don't get back into it

Be glad its biting not tearing. I tear mine and almost all the time it causes a lot of bleeding. I like the idea nail polish for biters.

I did a bit of both. I would often end up tearing out the side part of the nail, which could be really painful and would take forever to heal. The worst is forgetting about the unhealed fingernail wounds and eating salt & vinegar potato chips...

Yeah, this comes under my 'destructive grooming' set of stimms.

I used to bite my nails down until they all bled, I managed to grow them long up until the previous few years of unemployment when I've been biting again - not as bad, but it's still there. Even with long nails I still bit around the cuticles and by the side of the nails, it was a case of trying to neaten them up by biting off the bits that were scruffy...from having been bitten to begin with. You bite your nails, then there's a rough bit so you have to bite to get rid of the ruff bit, before you know it the whole nail is bitten down...and of course you can't keep the others long if that one is short. ARG!

Nasty tasting nail polish never worked for me, clear nail polish in general did though - it meant if I did bite it'd not just be messing up my nails but also the nail polish too, so I was less likely to bite as it'd cause twice the damage...clear is more attractive on short nails.

I used to both bite and tear mine, but stopped about 5 years ago....wish I knew how I managed it

~Kate

I have been a nail-biter all my life. I also pick at the cuticles and peeling skin that surrounds the nail. My fingers are always in my mouth when I'm anxious or just thinking too hard. I'd have to find a replacement activity to quit the habit.
Like gum chewing?

I bite mine when they get too long or break.

That's what I do, I bite them to stop them getting long and then file the ragged edges with my teeth. I managed to not bite them for two weeks recently. The whites weren't white though and I couldn't figure out how to stop dirt getting under them. Nail polish doesn't stop me biting them - I just bite that off too, or use my teeth to peel it off. I also had to learn to be more gentle when I scratched.

I wish I had salt and vinegar crisps to run into wounds on my fingers. There aren't any here and they're my favourite flavour.

My friend told me that biting your nails gets you sick easier, because all the crap that gets stuck under your nails and doesn't go anywhere, usually like the cold virus and whatnot. Since he told me I haven't done it nor caught a cold

I tear them too, and they've bled. It affects lots of things do with their hands too, cause they're so sensetive. And then i'll always knock one of the bad ones on something, which kills