Nail biters = pathologic groomers.
A new version of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) coming out early next year puts pathological grooming in that same category as OCD.
Nail biting seems to run in families - whether it's simply learned behavior picked up by watching a parent or a sibling with a digit in their mouth or something genetic or a combo of both isn't clear. It runs in my family. Myself and my son, one of my sister's and an Uncle - that I'm aware of. I guess it could be said that my son and I are more prone to compulsive behavior than the other half of my immediate family. However, my husband should really get labeled as a compulsive groomer as he showers a lot.
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Speaking as someone who has bitten their nails in the past and quit on multiple occasions, nail biting does not necessarily require nor indicate an obsessive/compulsive trait. It's far more a matter of habit or stress relief than anything.
IMO, this is stupid. It's just another attempt to label something with an unnecessary diagnosis.
IMO, this is stupid. It's just another attempt to label something with an unnecessary diagnosis.
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gbaji wrote:
You guys keep tossing facts out there like they mean something.
Quote:
"They are behaviors that stem from normal grooming. The kind of thing that most animals do, and is evolutionarily adaptive, right?" says Matthews.
But in pathological groomers, those behaviors go haywire. Instead of being triggered by, say a hangnail, the pathological nail biter is triggered by driving, reading, or feeling stressed out. "After a while, the behavior becomes un-triggered," says Matthews. "It becomes just an automatic behavior that has no relationship to external stimuli at all.
But in pathological groomers, those behaviors go haywire. Instead of being triggered by, say a hangnail, the pathological nail biter is triggered by driving, reading, or feeling stressed out. "After a while, the behavior becomes un-triggered," says Matthews. "It becomes just an automatic behavior that has no relationship to external stimuli at all.
Anyways, HERE is the story I listened to.
When I say "Red light" stop, when I say "Green light" go.
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I bite my nails. Is there a way I can get some government money out of this?
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Senator Toomey (R-PA) wrote:
In the end it didn't pass because we're so politicized. There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it
And drugs. Lots of free drugs.
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And one of those Obama-Phones!
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Senator Toomey (R-PA) wrote:
In the end it didn't pass because we're so politicized. There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it
Jophiel wrote:
And one of those Obama-Phones!
With a nail-biters app.
When I say "Red light" stop, when I say "Green light" go.
Ready?
Ready?
I bite my nails. Guess now I've got something to go with my Restless Leg Syndrome*.
*Also known as: mistakenly having too much energy when going to bed because I ate 16 chocolate chip cookies.
*Also known as: mistakenly having too much energy when going to bed because I ate 16 chocolate chip cookies.
I think that psychiatrists see behaviours that cause problems for individuals, which the individual wants to change, but is usually unsuccessful at changing on their own. And they give this behaviour it's own diagnosis, rather than put it into an umbrella diagnosis that involves diverse compulsive, impulsive, addictive behaviours that are stress-relief related or whatever.
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I don't think that reverance or respect for the dead needs the dead to be hidden from sight completely. It is the attitude that you bring, as a witness to a dead body, that matters, not the display and witnessing of a dead body, per se.
I don't think that reverance or respect for the dead needs the dead to be hidden from sight completely. It is the attitude that you bring, as a witness to a dead body, that matters, not the display and witnessing of a dead body, per se.
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