Most everyone has a bad habit, or behavior they wish was different. For me, that is biting my fingernails. Fingernail biting involves raising the fingers, usually one at a time, to the face and then inserting them inside the mouth. Once inside the mouth, the teeth are positioned around the fingernail to bite it and make it shorter. This is then repeated for all ten fingers time and time again. Fingernail biting belongs to a cluster of behaviors called pathological grooming. These behaviors stem off of regular grooming, but tend to take things to the next level. Pathological grooming starts off with a variety of triggers that are usually all experienced daily such as: boredom, feeling anxious, writing, or even driving a car. Eventually, the
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Since then, in DSM 5 it has now been moved into the category of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (Tucker, 2012). Certainly, I have never thought I have obsessive-compulsive disorder. In fact, biting fingernails is probably the only compulsive or obsessive behavior I have. However, it may be true I have a mild form of this disease as I do feel it is hard to control my nail biting, I am triggered to bite them from factors outside the nail itself, and because I do bite them when I feel stressed (Tucker, 2012). Double majoring in nursing in psychology is a major stressor in my life. Most of the time it is not the workload that stresses me out, rather trying to fit in enough of each major class to graduate with both degrees on time. Nursing is hard to plan around, and having a part-time job with school is another factor that makes semesters difficult. Not to mention, I always push myself to the absolute limit, if a class fits in my schedule I will risk taking 18 credits every semester if it is possible. Despite, all the planning that goes into every day of my life, there is always one thing I have time for no matter how busy I am: biting my
Since then, in DSM 5 it has now been moved into the category of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (Tucker, 2012). Certainly, I have never thought I have obsessive-compulsive disorder. In fact, biting fingernails is probably the only compulsive or obsessive behavior I have. However, it may be true I have a mild form of this disease as I do feel it is hard to control my nail biting, I am triggered to bite them from factors outside the nail itself, and because I do bite them when I feel stressed (Tucker, 2012). Double majoring in nursing in psychology is a major stressor in my life. Most of the time it is not the workload that stresses me out, rather trying to fit in enough of each major class to graduate with both degrees on time. Nursing is hard to plan around, and having a part-time job with school is another factor that makes semesters difficult. Not to mention, I always push myself to the absolute limit, if a class fits in my schedule I will risk taking 18 credits every semester if it is possible. Despite, all the planning that goes into every day of my life, there is always one thing I have time for no matter how busy I am: biting my