Posted by bleauberry on September 15, 2008, at 19:34:13
In reply to Medication for nail biting, posted by hitman60 on September 15, 2008, at 14:13:25
Buy the hottest red peppers you can find. Hot. Real hot. Taste it. Not hot enough to make you cry, go online and search for the world's hottest. Order some. Crush them up, make a paste, dip your fingers in it. Do not touch your eyes ever. I do not think you will be able to bite your nails. The only way this will fail is if you refuse to take your medicine, that is, dip the fingers in the paste, or if the paste is not hot enough. There are peppers that are so intensely hot they can only be tolerated by even the toughest of the tough by being highly diluted in food.
Again though, you gotta keep those fingers away from your eyes, nose, and when you go to the bathroom. No treatment is free of side effects. As long as you keep the hot fingers away from important bodily parts, you won't have any side effects.
The hard part will be the withdrawals. You are going to really want to chop down on those nails and you just won't be able to. That is going to be agonizing for a while. You'll get over it.
:)
Seriously. Hot pepper paste.
> I am not depressed or anxious but I tend to bite my nails down to the cuticle---ouch.
> I have tried the stuff you paint on your nails with the yukky taste, and even wore gloves to stop from biting. But nothing works. Do any current medications help with this? And what about hypnotism?
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