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I know a woman that has Bi-polar which bites her nails all day and nite for last week or so. She bites them down too the skin till it bleeds. She been taking her medicine for Bi-polar.
Compulsive behavior crops up in many disorders, and isn't necessarily specific to mood disorders. Disorders that relate to skin picking and related obsessive-compulsive behaviors can also occur comorbidly with bipolar I and bipolar II. Most behavior or this kind is rooted in self-soothing.
This DH says he used to bite his nails continuously, when he was younger. Come to find out, he is also on the autism spectrum. So perhaps it was a stimming behavior.
Why can't people that bite their nail chew gum instead?
A replacement habit is more effective,such a using a spinner, fidgeting with something, sewing,drawing, just as long as you use your hands. Eventually some can train themselves out of the habit.
I don’t really think there’s a connection to being bipolar. Many many people bite their nails. It is simply a nervous habit. I don’t know why the thread singles out women either men do this as well.
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