Talk:Nail biting

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Guitar players bite their nails all the time, if we're playing and the finger nails hampering its easy to bite it off then and there.128.189.171.108

Deformation of the nails
Will the nails grow back and look normal if you stop biting them? How long will it take? 76.251.228.239 (talk) 15:01, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a place to ask questions about your health, it is an encyclopedia. Seek advice from a health professional, but ofc anyone is feel to research and expand the article at any time. Many thanks, Lesion  ( talk ) 16:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

I used to bite my nails, and when.I finally managed to stop, they grew back perfectly normal-looking after about a week. BluJay (talk) 01:34, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Nail biting may arise from perfectionism
A couple of years ago I added [[a section]] to this talk page suggesting that nail biting could in some cases be the result of perfectionism. That section got collapsed, which I figured meant that somebody didn't really want it there but was too polite to remove it, so I removed it myself. But today I read this [[Scientific American article] about research published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry that suggests something similar, so I thought I'd bring it up again. [[User:AmigoNico|AmigoNico]] (talk) 08:10, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

I definitely started biting my nails due to my perfectionism. I would chip a nail, and then I would bite it down so the nail was even again. I would be fine for a little while, until I looked at my nail again. Biting your nails instead of trimming them is not a good method, and the edge I bit would be a little rough. I would keep biting my nails down, and down, and down until there was no nail left. Afterwards, I would have to bite down all the other nails to match. My trichotillomania started in a similar fashion. BluJay (talk) 01:39, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

What a coincidence! Me, too but mine is accompanied with dermatophagia... Kousei CaLlly Sheeran (talk) 12:36, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Unclear
What does "Nevertheless, the frontier pathological nail biting is not clear" mean? It is unclear. Does this mean that "the cause" of "pathological nail biting is not clear"?Royalcourtier (talk) 07:16, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Whoever wrote that doesn't speak English very well. They are trying to paraphrase from the linked paper (who's author also apparently does not speak English as a first language). This is the phrase in question ″Nail biting is not a pathological condition in all times and all clients. However, it is not exactly clear where the border between the healthy and unhealthy behavior of NB is.″ 174.22.176.14 (talk) 03:39, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Is it accompanied with dermatophagia?
I reckon it is because I have onychophagia and I have also dermatophagia... It may be because the fingers have skin and nails. Maybe it could. What are your thoughts? Kousei CaLlly Sheeran (talk) 12:39, 19 May 2017 (UTC)