Often Biting Nails? Signs That Could Be Perfectionist

www.healthydailymail.com Are you unknowingly played a hair or nail biting while reading this article? These habits can actually show your personality.

Someone who is generally impatient, easily bored, and quickly frustrated tend to perform repetitive habits such as skin peeling, nail biting, or pull their eyelashes.

Similarly, according to the conclusions of recent studies conducted by a team from the University of Montreal, Canada. Perfectionist nature as it is mentioned could be damaging.

"We believe that individuals with a habit of repeating these tend to be perfectionists, which means that they can not afford to relax and perform tasks with speed 'normal'," said Dr. Kieron O'Connor, professor of psychiatry.

Perfectionist nature can also cause a person to easily frustrated, impatient, and are not satisfied when they are not able to achieve their goals. They also had higher levels of boredom.

In the study, researchers recruited 48 participants, half had a kind of perfectionist behavior. Other participants, who do not have this behavior, acting as a control group.

The participants were given a question about the extent to which they experience emotions such as boredom, anger, guilt, and anxiety. Then, each participant faced with a situation that is designed to provoke certain feelings (including relaxation, stress, frustration and boredom). In the scenario of boredom, for example, the subject was just left alone in a room for six minutes.

Participants who have a history of behavior that focuses on the element body agitated, appeared to have a greater incentive to perform repeat habits, such as nail biting, when they're feeling stressed and frustrated. But when they relax, they do not do it.

If you are fond of biting your nails do not have to worry, because it is not necessarily dangerous behavior. Such behavior could be is a sign while when we are not able to channel our energies to more productive.

But when the habit is hard discontinued and disrupt daily life, it could be a behavioral disorder.

Is this behavior can be treated? According to O'Connor, there are two ways that may be made, among others, behavioral therapy is done by changing the habits of the acts of the competition, and a separate approach that focuses seek the underlying factors or triggers tension