Foibles...tics..bohersome habits...put to rest

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Does anyone have pexuliar habits they would like to rid themselves of.
I do and I would like to cease the nosepicking which startingly began recently at 16.
Yet it is oddly comforting to pick to skin off of my lips often...has anyone heard of this?
and wiggling my fingers ..as well as showing dissaproval by verbal noises similar to whining I suppose.

It would be rather difficult to tell I have as aside from these dastardly habits and also looking at my hands especially in the light.

anyone?

sorry for the rushed poor grammer

yea i have something similiar i love to punch my mouth and jaw until i have a bloody lip and then like to lick the blood, ill do it anywhere, and soemtimes it gets bad, iw ish i could get rid of that habit, i dont do it all the time, but sometimes it becoems like an obsessive compulsive thing for me, its weird. i also had a nose picking era hehe,where id like to fling the boogers everywhere and on things including ppl lolol ew i know haha, and would keep doing it until i jus bled and then would pidk up out the bloody boogers, the way i stopped that was wearing gloves it bothered the heck out of me wearing gloves that i started chewing my my gloves until i ate through the gloves into my hands and made them bleed, but after awhile i stopped wearing the gloves and stopped violently chewing my hand and picking my nose, although i may still do both, i dont violently pick anymore and only break skin on hand when angry. For peeling off the lip see if u can redirect that some how, try using tape or soemthing to put on ur lip and peel off constantly, that should peel skin off, but will give u the same feeling, then trying always having a lollipop with u, etc etc. im sorry im not much help, i hope u figure a way to stop it though, good luck!

It is somewhat helpful but not as destructive as you may think I just pick at the dead extra skin..rub it off it is not too harsh and malevolent at times.My lip only profusly bled when i was little and the nurse at my elemntary school called 911.For my lip would not clot.

sounds like sensory related bet u like how it feels after u do it or while ur doing it? see if u can redirect that behavior some how, or some way, and jus work from there, hopefully soembody else chimes in witha better answer, good luck tho!

I've peeled the skin off my lips ever since I was about 8 or 9. I only recently realized it's a stim. I thought I was doing it because I had dry, rough skin on my lips, and I needed to take care of that.

I finally found out that if I don't pick at it, it heals up naturally, and I'm not so tempted to constantly pick. Still, every so often I'll find myself doing it. One time, when I first met my now-husband, we were out walking together, and I started picking at my lip, and it started bleeding a whole lot. I had to borrow his handkerchief, and walk around mopping the blood off of my lip. Yuck!

I get a really itchy nose, too. I know nose-picking is revolting, and it's never been something I do much, but lately, with all the pollen in the air, I can't seem to keep my hands off my nose. I can see how that can become a habit.

Nose-picking and lip-picking both look really ugly when you see someone doing it, though. I try to remember how gross and ugly it looks, but sometimes the need to pick (lip) overrides any feeling about what it might look like.

I try to just rub my finger over my lips instead of picking at it. Sometimes that is enough. Sometimes I just don't think, though. If there is any rough spots, I feel like I need to smooth it out. Charming, I know.

yes it seems ''uncivilized" i know I feel entirely the same way about my lips...How were you able to stop yourself from continuing this repataive stimulant behavior ..all you had to do was realize it would heal? sorry if i sound like dolt but i am fatigued.

does anyone else need to have subtitles on films becasye of poor oral perception?

Nose picking, rubbing my chin where I have stitiches and like how it feels, as well as cracking my neck.

Pimple popping, not just the face. Any pore clog or ingrown hair I use special tools to break it open and drain/extract the source of the problem.

same with the ingrown hair,skin tags,warts and extraction.

WHAT IS A STIM?

and anyone else on advice for ceasing these issues?

I used to pull the skin off my lips, but now I tend to chew at them instead, which usually does more harm than pulling... Unfortunately, I still haven't found a way to stop the compulsion to do these things. I also tug my ear lobe on the left side so hard it bruises, pull on my hair, bite the inside of my mouth and squeeze my nose. I too wish I could stop this. Sorry I'm not much help, but sometimes its just nice to know that you're not alone.

I learned this term from this forum. It is short for Self Stimulation. Stim seems somehow less revolting to me than it's meaning, but it's something that I seem unable to not do. I was hoping that someone had some advice for getting rid of bad, or painful habits. I usually bite my lip scabs off with my teeth. They almost never bleed that way for some reason. I have more problems with rubbing rough places on fingernail cuticles. Maybe that is isn't quite so noticeable, but it does make them get red and sore anyway. I have a habit of putting my left hand's ring finger through contortions, twisting it in every direction imaginable. It makes the nuckle that is right above the cuticle stay red and swollen all the time, plus the effect it has on the fingers that I use to do the twisting. I am afraid I am going to cause carpel tunnel problems for myself if I don't find a way to break the habit. I broke this habit once before several years ago, but I picked it up again. I don't recall now how I accomplished it other than just making it a project and deciding I just would. I guess that is what I am going to have to do this time. I am tired of my left hand always hurting.

I used to chew on the inside of my mouth, but when I had to have local surgery to repair the disfiguration that the chewing caused, I broke the habit while the stitches were healing. There ought to be a less severe approach to the problem though.

I regularly get cuts and bruises. When they dry, I peel them off, over and over again. I think that is due to the fact I get more irritated over itching than pain.

I don't think this qualifies as a stiming problem. I also have a habit of grinding my teeth, to provide a rhythm section for the music that almost constantly plays in my head. I am sometimes unaware when I am doing it. Folks have embarrassing comments like "What are you eating?" or other embarrassing comments. I started this when I was still in elementary school. I was getting complaints from people because I was tapping my foot to the music playing in my head, but of course no one else in the room could hear the music, and the tapping in an otherwise silent room irritated them, so I had to come up with something that didn't also make noise. Unfortunately it also has a way of wearing down tooth enamel.

i'd like more control over my facial expressions. (people often tell me they're odd or 'negative.') i didn't know picking your lips was something that grossed people out. i'll try not to do it in public anymore.

i'd like to stop picking at my feet--skin, callouses, etc. (i don't do that in public, though.) i need a ped-egg(!) i'd like to stop my public expressions of fascination for odd things (like ped-eggs. it's the phrase, i think.)

i'd like to have more of an idea of why some people get so angry at me when i say things sometimes. guess i'm wanting to have more idea of etiquette and norms.

i want to stop pulling my lips in. people seem to think i'm trying to keep from laughing at them.