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View Poll Results: Do You Chew Your Nails From Stress?
Yes 24 46.15%
No 14 26.92%
I pick fingernails or toenails or both 14 26.92%
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Old 01-02-2008, 02:30 AM
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It's a bad habit of mine.
I used to bite my nails, but now I pick at them.
I think I began doing it, when I began slipping into a frozen state at work. When I'd 'come-to' I'd find that I was picking at my fingernails.
After I realized what I was doing,
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Old 03-02-2008, 08:08 PM
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ok, that's it, i'm in! can't keep my hands out my mouth! and i am a charter member of pimple poppers anonymous. my therapist says it's a habitual response to stress, so yes anthony you're right. but i yearn for long, ok well just over my fingertips, beautiful nails. i hate ptsd. i hate it. it's like the sun and the moon, always there. and cyclical. i would consider myself cured if i could just stop biting my nails.
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....kinda? I dont bite down the nails far or anything, just nibble... LOL
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Old 24-04-2008, 03:21 PM
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i dont chew/pick nails...

i chew/pick/cut/pull/tear skin off my fingers & now have moved to my feet excessively as its more hidden?

i do remember i did pick my nails when i was a child, but i was always more a skin picker... its very embarrassing having red raw swollen fingers in public... and its very embarrassing cleaning up the mess i make at home.. the obviously it doesnt stop me...

i have gotten alot since i gave up smoking a couple of years ago.. but the sad thing is my 5 yr old does it... and he was doing it early even when i was very conscious of him not seeing my do it, he has that internal anxiety thing... he picks his fingers /anything and regularly has no toe-nails to cut...

its so sad and embarrassing admitting all this here.. but enlightening to feel at home with others.. thanku for sharing everyone ;)
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