Hypnotherapy for Nail Biting in Grantham & Newark
Most people regard nail biting as a truly unpleasant and negative habit. Many of us begin the process of biting in our early school years and is related to our stress coping mechanisms. You might get anxious or nervous and then bite your nails as a way to cope. Nail biting can also be related to sucking your thumb when a child, and then find the habit comes to an end whilst in our late teens. Fingernail biting may continue into adulthood for some, and becomes an emotional crutch, creating real physical harm to the fingers.
Hypnosis in Grantham and Newark is successfully used to help men and women who suffer from this destructive behavioural pattern called Onychophagia which is a chronic condition that is repetitive and compulsive in nature.
What does ‘bad habit’ mean?
A habit generally is a behavioural pattern that reoccurs automatically without us having to consider it.
It’s something we generate by reiterating a particular behaviour often. By and large, a habit is very simple to begin but extraordinarily hard to stop. A habit is defined as a bad one when it damages us emotionally or physically.
Comfort eating, drinking and smoking cigarettes are activities people undertake. When the action occurs without conscious thought or effort, that’s when it has changed into a habit. By way of example, you may only realise you put your fingers in your mouth afterwards – you didn’t think about it upfront.
How is nail biting a problematic behaviour?
Most nail biters are affected by some level of anxiety, but there are a few nail biters who do it without any emotional motivation. The simple reason nail biting is a concern is the physiological problems it causes.
For the most part, you may encounter red fingers and cuticles that are shredded and ruined.
This will make them simple to catch on things and they can be sore when in contact with certain substances like acid in food for example. In more severe cases, the fingers may become disfigured and the nails completely lost.
It is not just your fingers that can be affected; there’s lots of dental issues relating to nail biting too. A thing called gingival injury can occur, which is where continual nail biting ruins the soft tissue in your mouth. It’s also possible to transfer horrible infections to the body by having oral contact with the bacteria buried deep in the nail bed.
Most nail biters know that they have an issue, but they simply do not know how to stop it. It can be very mortifying to catch yourself nibbling away and realising you are surrounded by those who are finding the behaviour unpleasant. Also, it is distressing when others notice your ruined fingers and nails.
The most important thing to realise is that the habit is in most cases a behaviour you utilise to cope with something a bit deeper that needs identifying and handling.
Hypnotherapy strategies at Elevated Therapy in Grantham’s Town Centre for nail biting are successful in treating this problem and countless clients see great results after the first few sessions.
Stop nail biting hypnotherapy Grantham and Newark will help you break those old associations.
Even if your habit has been around for many years, a successful treatment using hypnosis can be yours now !
So, if nail biting continues to be a problem for you, make an appointment today with Dr. Michael for help directly with improving your ability to control the impulse to bite or pick your nails, managing stress and anxiety better, and increasing your self-esteem and confidence, so you have new ways to cope with any challenges you face.
Sometimes in just a few sessions of hypnotherapy, your nail biting will be totally under control.
You will then be able to grow nice healthy nails of which you can be proud.
Get in touch with Dr. Michael TODAY !
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- Michael is 10 minutes walk from Grantham Railway Station.
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Dr. Michael G Millett and Elevated Therapy has been established since 1995 in London and relocated to Grantham
in November 2011.
