It's Good To Hear About Real Nailbiters

Dear Rose, (nibble, nibble, nibble), I enjoyed your websight, (crunch, munch). It is good to hear about real nail biters. People keep telling me nail biting comes from nervousness or boredom. I never have time to be bored and am not a nervous person. I feel three things about my nailbiting (with me since I got my first teeth to bite them with):

1. it is connected to frustrated or held back physical energy. I do not bite my nails when performing - I am an actress and clown- I don't bite them during sex or when walking in the woods or on the beach or swimming or playing with my kids or working in the garden. I do bite them in front of the TV, the Computer, in the theater, while reading, drawing, writing, daydreaming and planning things. I do bite them worse when feeling frustrated over something...LIKE BEING A NAILBITER!

2. I like the look of elegant nails but I HATE the feel of them. Each time I stop for a month, sometimes half a year, the long nails are like having a thimble at the end of each finger blocking off a sensitivity/awareness/energy .

3. And, lastly, I sort of cut myself in two when I am nailbiting, the half that is doing it and the half that switches off for a moment and doesn't connect to the action. It is as if I am doing it behind my own back before I notice and I am getting away with it! And if anyone else should dare comment or remind me to stop, it is the looking away part of me that feels outraged and indignant at them. OK already!!! I feel angry and guilty not so much because of biting but because I should have noticed myself, because I should be able to master the wild, untamed me which probably would be way wilder were I not a nail biter. (Crunch).

Warmest (nibble) regards, bite, bite,