Constantly biting lips and cheeks. Anybody else do this?

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My lips get dry alot, so I put chapstick on them peel the dried part off...it kinda hurts, but it looks better. I bite my cheeks and inside my lips accidentally alot. that really hurts

I think I grind my teeth at night too btw, I've seen some people mentionning, it, I often have a weird dream where I can't close my mouth anymore, it's wide open and hurts like hell, I try hard to close it for far of my jaw dislocating, when I wake up my jaws are indeed sore. I think what happens is I clench my teeth in my sleep. Really hard.

I do a thing that also my father used to do as well as my grandmother on my mother's side. in my family they call it "biting the tongue". I am not exactly biting my tongue tho, I am putting it between my teeth on one side of my mouth and I am clenching and releasing my temporomandibular joint. it doesnt hurt at all, I like the feeling and the sound inside my head.
also I do one more thing, which is rather bizarre, I like to feel the seams on my clothes if they are made out of soft cotton, like a tee shirt. I slide my fingers up and down the seam with the seam rubbing against the space under the tip of my nail. its very hard to explain it lol

I chew my lips, and I clench my teeth at night. When I wake up, they hurt from it.

I also chew my nails every day. I wish I could stop, but old habits are hard to break. I've been doing it since I was 4 or 5 years old, and don't know why it's so satisfying. My fingers look like hell.

Oh, so good to see that there are others
I've been biting the insides of my cheeks all my life and especially when I was younger my mom and my friends would tease me by asking if I was trying to bite a hole in my cheek...

Sometimes it hurts and the inside of my mouth is a total mess, but I find it relaxing...

I bite my cheeks quite frequently, especially when nervous, overloaded, bored, etc. I do it unconsciously a lot. Actually I am doing it now!

Sometimes, but I usually chew the skin off of my fingers though, I have calluses like crazy.

Every day and night. I've caused myself quite a few bloody lips by unconsciously biting and chewing all the time.

I do this too...I don't know what it means however. My mom does and I thought that I just picked it up from her.

I do this as a nervous habit. I don't think it's a stim, though I'm not sure what the difference is between the two.

I bite the skin around my fingers and have for as long as i can remember, it calms me down.

I chew on my tongue. I rarely noticed myself doing it as a child, but apparently I did it very often. I was in an elementary school where we were not allowed to chew gum, and I always got accused of it. I did it when I was concentrating on something. I dont catch myself doing it as much anymore, but still sometimes