Reasons to stop biting your nails (Even if you don't, tell your friends who do, to read this)

I have been a compulsive nail biter since I was 3. I remember that first incident because my sister was baby-sitting me. But thats another story.

Anyway, being an OCD nail-biter, I find it hard to show people my hands or wear nail polish. People tell me to put some foul smelling stuff on my nails. I told them that it wouldn't work, because not only do I bite my nails, I also rip them off (Sounds gross, but OCD people are like that).
Bad things that come out of nail-biting:

• They look disgusting
• If you pick the skin around them, the skin looks gross
• It really hurts
• You get self-conscious about your nails
• You get jealous to people who can wear nail polish
• You can't enjoy nail-polish
• You can't stop biting your nails
• When you try to wear lip-gloss which is sticky to stop biting, you just forget you have it on and end up with sticky fingers...yuk
• Friends get really grossed out and make you feel worse, which gets you stressed and makes you bite your nails more
• When you try to grow them again, you feel the nails and they are really annoying and you end up biting them again
• When you try to regrow them, they grow awkwardly and wonky so before they get to length to file them, they break off and you just want to finish the job you didn't start
• You don't concentrate on what you're meant to be doing, and you end up being scolded for nail-biting and half a finished job. Annoying.
• You get mouth infections, which hurt.
• And this reason, which is most prominent, is that when you bite your nails, your bottom jaw is pushed forward. That is not how the jaw is meant to go, and with that repeditive movement, the jaw socket it spazzed out, resulting in a clicking of the jaw and eventually the lock of the jaw, which is painful, scary and annoying. This could result in a lifetime of bad jaw-lock, like I have. And it's all because of my nail-biting.
  

So from that long list, you see my troubles. When I try to grow my nails, they are all wonky and annoying, and when they grow okay, I can feel them there, waiting to be ripped off. So as well as the list being bad things that happen from nail-biting, they are reasons to stop. Who wants that to happen? No one. So since I have been told that if I don't stop, my jaw could be in jeopardy, I need to stop. I just need something to occupy my hands, like a stress ball or something. Please, whoever reads this, help me stop biting my nails!!!!