OCD Nail biting..No more 'cliff hanger" movies for me.

[Guest Peeves]

http://www.thestar.c...-classification

I wonder what this will cost OHIP? and our taxes.

Seems to me this proves that just about anything is a symptom of something.

"

Biting your nails isn’t just a bad habit. It’s now being reclassified as a full-blown psychiatric disorder.

A proposed move by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is expected to include nail-biting as a form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) when it is revised for 2013.

Nail-biting joins hair pulling and other pathological grooming habits in the OCD classification. Previously, the DSM put nail-biting in the “not otherwise classified” section of disorders."

http://www.ncbi.nlm....lth/PMH0001926/

Edited October 10, 2012 by Peeves

[GostHacked]

Everything has to have a name and a disorder. They also have a pill to cure whatever condition they think deserves to be classified as a 'condition'. Or therapy.

[Moonlight Graham]

I bite my nails a lot, but in the article it says it has to take up over an hour of your day or cause you significant distress. My nail-biting certainly isn't that bad and doesn't affect my life negatively in any way I see so I'll just keep on keepin' on.

[Guest]

I bite my nails, but I don't know what the big deal is. They're cheap, and Rona always has lots.