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From my earliest memories, I've always bitten my nails.
Many many times over the eons, I've deliberately stopped, but before I knew it, I was biting them again without thinking. I've tried to stop, but find I'm biting them again totally without thinking.

A few short months ago, I realised I'd stopped. No conscious effort on my part, just stopped, and I never noticed until I saw my nails had grown. I've even had to cut them! :shock:

Why have I stopped?
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Happened to me too about 15 years ago. Perhaps its like sucking your thumb, you suddenly grew up! :lol:

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Don't worry about it or you'll end up biting your fingernails. :roll:
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Hi,
Every one probably did it when they were young I did (45% teenagers).
1:3 adults, I chew my fingers sometimes, but gave up toenail biting when could no longer get my foot behind my neck :lol:
Its a ology thingummy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_biting
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

I don't like mysteries. There's always a reason for everything, and I do worry about it. It's probably that I've grown out of it, though not actually grown up. :wink:

I wonder if people can grow out of habitually smoking or habitually drinking in the same way I've grown out of habitually biting my nails?
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Mick F wrote::lol: :lol: :lol:

I don't like mysteries. There's always a reason for everything, and I do worry about it. It's probably that I've grown out of it, though not actually grown up. :wink:

I wonder if people can grow out of habitually smoking or habitually drinking in the same way I've grown out of habitually biting my nails?


I love mysteries. But then I am an old hippy-romantic. Sometimes the sublime is sublime.

There is a reason for everything .... as long as you can make one up. Often the reasons bear no relation to reality but humans are good at reconfiguring which bits of reality they notice and which bits they don't. Many make up their own realities, which they construct and overlay upon actual reality, all inside their wee heads!

Habits can be grown out of (or be acquired) via many inner twitched of the synaptic plexus. What are the twitch-processes involved? We will never know.

There are many dark forces that work to infantilise modern folk, as this makes them easier to order about and sell things to. Many of us never grow up now, these days. If we do, we become shocked at how the human world has gone ga-ga. Our synaptic plexus twitches madly in a forlorn effort to understand the reasons. If we are incautious, conspiracy theories of the most outrageous ilk form in our brainboxes and we go on a rant about them!

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Smoking and drinking can be addictive. For some more than others. Biting nails or sucking thumbs are just pointless habits. I am trying not to grow up, I know people who have and they are all boring.

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Not sure about that.
Smoking and drinking CAN be addictive, and thumb sucking and nail biting CAN have a point.

I was doing it out of habit, but not all day. It was often when I was concentrating on something. Telly, movies, reading ..... that sort of thing. It helped me do something physically when doing something mentally. I sucked my thumb as a kid, maybe until I was five? It helped me relax and to sleep, but I never did it during the day.

Maybe I'm less mental now. :wink:
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I bit my nails habitually until the age of 34.

Why am I so precise about the age? Well, that year, I had a face-plant and broke all four of my top front teeth.

For several weeks, until I had my dental bridge fitted, I couldn't bite my nails (nor much else, actually...). Once the bridge went in, I found I could bite again - but the habit of nail-biting was broken for good.

Some disadvantages. A week or two ago, I took up piano-playing again after a long break. It was then I discovered my fingernails were too long. Time for the clippers...
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I think it is just good grooming. Others may advocate the nail clipper, but nothing gives satisfaction like a nail stripped cleanly from one end to the other by teeth alone. I wonder if 'feel good' hormones are released?

What about the toenails, Mick? Do you strip them with your teeth as well :o . I have to admit, I find toenails laborious and unsatisfying to trim, unlike fingernails. Perhaps there are fewer nerve endings on the toes and this is why...
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I have never bitten my finger nails 'cos they are mostly painty ,gluey or oily or something else revolting ...and too tough to bite ...and good pair of sharp scissors is the only way ....
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Freddie wrote:What about the toenails, Mick? Do you strip them with your teeth as well :o .
I have to admit, that I did peel my toenails in the past. I couldn't get my toes in my my mouth, but I could reach quite well to peel them off even though I bit my finger nails. :oops:

Maybe I stopped as I got older and couldn't reach so easily. Trimming with a clipper is still ok though.
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al_yrpal wrote:Smoking and drinking can be addictive. For some more than others. Biting nails or sucking thumbs are just pointless habits. I am trying not to grow up, I know people who have and they are all boring.

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Still not bitten 'em or even tempted to, nor am I biting them absent mindedly.

I'm still mystified why.
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Maybe you were short of calcium, the metabolism changes over time

Plenty of things get better with age*, I used to have digestive problems with headaches, had to be sick, not had them for a few years

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