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This Reeks of POV and Original Resource[edit]

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[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

@76.251.228.239: 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)[reply]

Nail biting may arise from perfectionism[edit]

A couple of years ago I added [[1][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 [[2][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. AmigoNico (talk) 08:10, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@AmigoNico: 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)[reply]

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

Unclear[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Is it accompanied with dermatophagia?[edit]

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)[reply]