Nail biting for children’s mental illness and treatment

Nail biting Nail biting is a very common bad behavior in childhood, which can occur in boys and girls. The severity varies, and severe cases can cause local bleeding and even paronychia. Children who like to bite their nails are often accompanied by disturbed sleep and tics. reason:

1. If it is an infant before the age of 3, this phenomenon is normal.
2. The lack of trace elements needs to be supplemented in time.
3. Parents do not care enough about their children’s hygiene and health, lack good hygiene habits, do not trim their nails when they grow, but use teeth instead of trimming. Over time, they form a bad habit.
4. Family discord, parental relationship is tense, children often get no parental care and lack of family warmth, so that children’s hearts are hurt or depressed, resulting in emotional tension, children will use sucking fingers to divert attention and solve problems mood. Or the child is in loneliness and passes the time by biting nails.
5. The learning pressure is high, and the parents’ expectations are too high, which makes the child’s psychological burden too heavy, and unconsciously bites his fingers to distract the spirit and reduce the pressure.

Psychological counseling:

1. Parents do not scold. When correcting the child’s finger-sucking and nail-biting behavior, the attitude should be kind and friendly, the language and actions should be gentle, never yelling, intimidating, beating and scolding, and don’t take simple and rude prohibitions, because this will only strengthen the problem. This kind of behavior makes children feel more nervous, and even produces unhealthy psychology such as inferiority complex and loneliness. Tell the child directly that finger sucking is a child’s action, a child’s habit, and now that you’ve grown up, it’s embarrassing to do it again. And it should be pointed out that this is a bad habit, unsanitary, and easy to cause disease.
2. When children are ridiculed by children for sucking and biting nails, they should give children psychological support and comfort, encourage children to change such bad behaviors, and establish a good image of children in front of children. To scold the child in front of everyone, so as not to damage the child’s self-esteem and weaken the child’s confidence to change bad behavior.
3. Pay more attention to the child’s psychological needs, pay attention to meeting the emotional requirements of the child to be loved and cared for, spend more time with the child, communicate feelings, and have more skin-to-skin contact, play games with the child, sleep with the child, before going to bed Give the child a touch and other warmth, so that the child has a sufficient sense of happiness and satisfaction.
4. Divert attention. Let the children often play, talk, and read with the children. Encourage children to play more with their peers, arrange some suitable manual activities for children, and try to keep them from being idle, such as letting children play with building blocks, play with sand, paint, play games, etc., so as to lead children’s attention to health , happy and lively activities, so that children forget this bad behavior.
5. Appropriately adjust the requirements for the child, do not strive for perfection for the child, do not overemphasize competition, do not constantly pressurize the child, but create a relaxed and gentle family environment for him to make him feel safe and credible. You can use appropriate methods, such as storytelling, singing, traveling, games, etc., to let the child vent his inner emotions, feel the care of his parents, enhance self-confidence, and gradually overcome emotional barriers. With the adjustment of children’s emotions, some bad behavior habits will gradually change.
6. You can apply a bitter agent (such as Coptis chinensis) on the child’s nails to make the child feel disgusted, encourage the child to engage in outdoor activities, and give more care to reduce their pressure.
7. If the above methods are ineffective, consider installing a heavy metal jaw groove in the mouth to make it difficult for the child to insert the fingers into the mouth, and keep it for half a year, which can achieve the purpose of correction.
8. Individual children can use anti-anxiety and anti-compulsive drugs under the guidance of a doctor. In short, parents must be patient. Any rough reprimands and threats will not only be ineffective, but also aggravate the child’s psychological pressure, and even make it rebellious and aggravate the habit of biting fingers.