I started biting my nails long before I the symptoms of my ED started. The only thing that has worked for me is getting accrylic tips. If I don't have the fake nails I bite my real ones.

I have always been a nail biter, and now I also bite the skin around my nails sometimes. It's strange if I think about it, I don't think I bite my nails when I am doing good with eating and working out. Wierd, never thought about that before.

ditto used to be a nail bitter here and now justskin around my nails....but nails grow and break it drives me bonkers

Morgaine

i dont bite my nails...so i dont think that theory is a very true one

yea i constantly tear the skin around my nails to the point that it hurts! i know i shouldnt and it looks gross, but i cant help it! kinda like i eat when im bored.. i know i shouldnt but i do.. so i do think that it has some connection with people with eds.. i think that both of these issues are caused by not being able to control what your body does and what you want it to do

missys, just because you dont bite you nails doesnt mean the theory isnt true. I have read it, and look at the that do it. Im not saying everyone does, we are all not the same. You cant say a theory isnt true, just because you dont do it.

I bite my nails like crazy- have since I was 10 years old. Also, I chew the skin, as well.

Like someone suggested, get acrylics, but only temporarily- if you get them for long periods of time, your real nails weaken severely. A lot of people recommend putting nail polish on your nails, so maybe put some clean nail polish on the skin around the nails.

Also, you can work with a therapist to stop. The thing that has helped me briefly in the past is finding something else to do with my hands and becoming very aware of when I'm chewing.

I don't bite my nails, but I have this fascination at playing with my scalp...weird I know :)

So instead of chewing on nails and skin on fingers go smoke a ciggy heehehhehh

i pick my nails and the skin around them really bad in class, humm not sure why we all have this problem? Go figure right? ahahhaha

Haha, I smoke, as you know, and I chew my nails/skin, and I pick my skin on my face (mostly my acne- gross, I know), and I pull out my hair, and I pull my ear (it's weird, but it's a habit I've had since I was 4 or 5 when my mom told me to pull on my ear instead of sucking my thumb), and I chew the inside of my mouth and lips.

I'm a wreck! Haha, not really.

do you pick scabs? ok, its gross, but sometimes I cant stop picking. Now, instead of restricking and purging I am eating the skin around my nails, that shit is gross and I want to stop. I know it goes with the ed prob and smoking.

I do that too....to me it's just a nerve thing...

I have the scalp fascination thing also, I think, it maybe an obsessive type disorder...
I dunno, I also like tight rings on my fingers or chokers on my neck, anything tight.....
that has to do with my disorder and being
selfconscious
Hugz
Morgaine

don't like* those things sheesh I can't type tonite.