This article probes nail-biting as a medical condition, seeks to understand who is most likely to be afflicted by the distressing condition, and looks at its association with mental health conditions.

Nail biting, or onychophagia as it's called medically ... more broadly and sometimes there's even a mental health condition at play. And often adults are similar to kids in that they sometimes ...

Quitting nail biting can be as difficult as quitting smoking. According to the NIH, the habit (“onychophagia”) is a chronic condition that is repetitive and compulsive in nature.

Nail biting can be a sign of an underlying psychological condition such as anxiety, depression, or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). People with these conditions may find that biting their ...

In reality, when it leads to significant impairment, chronic nail biting falls within the spectrum of BFRBs, alongside conditions such as trichotillomania and excoriation disorder. Like these ...

Nail biting is also associated with certain mental health conditions like ADHD, depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, separation anxiety disorder, or Tourette syndrome. Nail biting ...

This painful condition can develop when nails are trimmed ... A bruised nail may feel tender as it heals. Nail biting can cause pain, and it may damage tissue that helps nails to grow.

an advocacy group for people with the conditions. (One common repetitive behavior is nail-biting.) The research, published Wednesday in JAMA Dermatology, found that an approach called habit ...

This chronic skin condition causes red and silver itchy ... You can try to preserve your nails by avoiding biting them, keeping them trimmed short, and limiting how often you use nail polish.