I stopped biting my nails again. It's something I do when I don't even realise it, which makes it hard to control. Sometimes I go through spurts of not biting especially if I really concentrate on it. Otherwise, they just go back to the way the way they were. I've been biting my nails as long as I can remember; as far back as age 5 or earlier.

The thing that helped this time was some audio suggestion therapy from Loren Parks of the Psychological Research Foundation. The recording includes a loud buzzing sound that supposedly disconnects you from a scary childhood experience related to your nail biting.

I'm very skeptical but it seems to be working. It could be the suggestion itself or it could be a placebo effect, where my mind is actually willing itself to believe that it worked. Either way, it has worked so it doesn't really matter if it is a placebo effect ... it's effective nonetheless so far.

The hard part, however, will be making it last longer than a few weeks. I'm betting that as soon as the suggestion gets to the back of my mind the nail biting will return. We'll see.