stop biting my nails

stress + anger = :( byebye fingernail :(

i don’t know why, it’s getting worse. they disappear faster and faster, as soon as the first has gone :( sad :(

i’ve been biting my nails since i can remember. i’ve kind of stopped, on and off, in the last 3 years. the best thing has been to remind myself of how nice my hands look when i have nails instead of bloody, ragged stumps. i try to keep them polished or at least shiny and buffed, but like so many people, as soon as i’m stressed, they start to disappear one by one, stating with my thumbnails.

it’s really sad. i look at it the same way as i do smoking (which is something i actually managed to quit, after 10 years of a pack-a-day habit): they are both self-destructive, unproductive, unhealthy, hateful outlets for psychological/emotional anguish.

just like i realised that i did not want to be “a smoker”, i do not want to be “a nailbiter”. i love and respect myself far too much than to treat myself so badly, and have too much dignity to continue torturing myself so stupidly- an publicly.

i sincerely wish everyone lots of strength and love for this!! it’s probably not as hard as we think.