plootark wrote:
To stim I constantly pull at my beard and ultimately pull the hairs out. I really would like to stop doing this. I end up with a scraggly beard and a sore chin.
Has anyone successfully managed to change their stims to something less destructive? What did you do?
Note, shaving is not an option!
Thanks
You could try isometric excercises.
If you get the urge to pull on your beard- imagine if you could put off pulling on your beard for a few moments and instead to took those moments to pump iron for a few reps. Imagine if you were to do that daily- substitute beard pulling for pumping iron. You would gradually pull on your beard less, and you might even buff up. in effect turn pumping iron into a substitute "stim".
Well obviously you cant go everywhere in your life (like your job) carrying around free weights.
But- you can take a hint from Charles Atlas and use a little "dynamic tension" by pitting your arm muscles against each other to do the same thing (isometrics).
Have a gertain long standing deep seated behavior like stimming, or like cutting, and when I hit upon the notion of doing isometrics one day- it helped to quell that behavior.