The Comments Have Helped Me

Thank you for this site. All of the letters have already helped me. I bite the skin around my nails. In observing myself, reading all the psychological analysis...I'm viewing this habit as that- a habit. There's a satisfaction that is basic here. I do not do this when I am bored, stressed, worried, etc. I do this when there is skin to peel. When I have succeeded in not biting, as when it is very humid and my skin is not chapped, I can successfully not bite. Cotton gloves, that can be found at any drug store are a real help in experiencing the new habit of not biting. I put moisture cream on my hands then the gloves and it is a very helpful aid. But it seems to require is a willful decision to arrest the tendency to bite 'just this one time'. To allow 'imperfection' to remain. To know that a worse imperfection will result. To allow myself to be imperfect that I may fail, but I will immediately follow again with the willful decision to resist. This will work. It worked with a weight problem that I had many years ago and do not have now. You finally do break the habit, with persistence.