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Do you bite your nails?
Yes 74%  74%  [ 28 ]
No 26%  26%  [ 10 ]
Only When Nervous 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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16 Nov 2011, 5:54 pm

I'm a biter. I bite my nails and the cuticles around them all the time. If my hands are not pre-occupied by something else then I am biting them. I'll be biting them until I'm dead.



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16 Nov 2011, 5:56 pm

Im a nail biter + wolf biter (dermatophagia)

Part of my OCD apparently. My fingers are always bleeding, real messy.

Need to quit, but can't.


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16 Nov 2011, 5:57 pm

I don't bite my nails but rather chew off the hangnails (the piece of skin that peel off around the nail). However, I always have to clean my fingernails because I hate the feeling of dirt underneath them.



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16 Nov 2011, 6:32 pm

I've never had that problem, but I do have a habit of picking at them/getting the dirt out from under them...



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16 Nov 2011, 8:24 pm

Nope don't bite my nails, but I bite the skin around them, pretty much any of my skin on my hand, and I used to bite my knuckles so much while watching TV they were scaly.



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16 Nov 2011, 9:05 pm

I used to bite them more than I do. Mostly I chew on pencils now, but my nails still get abused when i'm bored.