#fidget devices

[robertogreco]

Detective Miller touches a necklace belonging to Juliette Mao while searching her apartment in Episode Two of Season One of The Expanse. This necklace appears to be some sort of worry beads and Miller kind of uses the a fidget device in future episodes.

[commodorecliche]

I'd get a fidget cube anyways since they're pretty inexpensive. Even if it ends up not working on stopping the nail biting, it'd still be fun to have :) I've had a problem with biting my nails on and off since I was little, although usually I don't really do it because my hands are unoccupied. If the skin around my nails is flaking I'll pick at it since it bothers me or I'll bite my nails if its uneven. I've found that keeping a nail file and cuticle nippers nearby helps.

Somehow, I lose every nail file I ever buy... Eventually I just stopped getting them. I don’t know what happens to them, they’re just...gone. disappeared forever into the ether. I did try to use clippers, cause I thought maybe it was just the dry skin that was bothering me, but then I started picking at old calluses on my fingers (from rowing), etc... and noticed myself biting the inside of my cheeks more... so i don’t think it’s just a “don’t like it being uneven” thing for me... 

i’m really glad you’ve found a couple things that help you curb it though! and glad to hear you like your cube! i wound up getting one for me (and for my mom since she’s ADD and a huge nail biter too) - maybe it’ll help out! and i’m really hoping it might help her, since she bites her fingernails down to the quick (like I said in my reply to that other anon, she mostly just bites her nails, while I bite some of my nail and the skin around my nails and cuticles - she’s a nail biter, and i’m a wolf biter). 

i’ve got high hopes that’ll at least make it a little easier to manage! thank you for your message! y’all’s messages and advice are always SO helpful! 

[commodorecliche]

I also paint my nails to keep myself from biting them (even if they are looking kinda ratty and gross lol). I feel like gratuitous use of hand sanitizer and/or hand lotion helps too :)

I usually paint mine too - and it helps for a few days, but it usually only stops me from biting my NAILS - it doesn’t help stop me from biting the skin/cuticles, unfortunately. i hate this habit, to be honest. i’ve tried so many things - from pad tasting polishes (meant to deter biting), to hot sauce, etc... but negative reinforcements just aren’t working. (and unfortunately, i work in health care, so i’m very very very used to hand sanitizer and medical grade hand washes, so even those don’t faze my taste buds)

i did wind up getting a fidget device! i ordered one today! i’m hoping that maybe giving my hands something to do will help with it - i think mine is a combination of habit, anxiety, and compulsion. (i always notice i do it worse when doing things like driving or sitting in bed, or sitting in a class, etc... when my hands have very little to do).

i also got one for my mom! she is a nail biter too (worse than me, honestly, for her actual nails... i can usually at least keep my nails growing for a little while, and get some white tips on my nails, but hers are chewed down to the quick - but i bite/tear at the SKIN more than my mom does, and while my nails grow out, i still bite at the skin around them...) - and she was recently diagnosed with ADD, so I think it would be something she’d greatly enjoy! and could maybe help with her wolf biting habit too. we’ll see!

either way, it’ll be a nice little mother’s day gift for her. 

thank you for your message!!! i always appreciate you guys sending me your advice and tips for things like this. :D