For people who can’t stop biting their nails or picking at their skin, a new study suggests that a simple technique could help.
While the new technique — which involves gently rubbing the fingertips, palm or back of the arm at least twice a day — didn’t help everyone, about 53% of people in the study said they had at least some improvement compared with about 20% of people in a control group.
that showed them how to form the new, less harmful habit by gently rubbing their fingertips, palm, or arm any time they felt the urge to bite their nails or engage in the harmful behavior. They were also instructed to practice the new habit when they weren’t feeling the urge to pull, pick or bite. In habit reversal training, people are taught “competing responses,” said Natasha Bailen, a clinical psychologist at the Center for OCD and Related Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Mortiz said that the study’s habit replacement training differs in that it aims to replace the sometimes pleasurable sensation of picking and pulling with something that also feels good but won’t be harmful — gentle touch. In fact, the training manual in the study recommends that people avoid touching their bodies in ways that are rough or apply too much pressure, like scrubbing their skin in the shower or brushing their teeth too hard.
“There are reasonably good treatments out there that most clinicians aren’t aware of or don’t do,” he said.
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