OCD Behaviour- Chewing Off Parts Of Skin On Lips

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How does anyone suggest I stop doing this? I do it without thinking now, and later on I think about it after I've chewed a bit off or chewed on my lips for awhile. It doesn't hurt, but it doesn't help make my lips look good or heal. I'm not sure why I do it.

It's more a selfharming behaviour because of too much stress.

You have to find something else to cope with your stress.
Some other object you can hold in your hand or play with, music or something else to do.

I do it when I am stressed yes, but I also do it when I'm not.

I used to bite my lips terribly until they gave me considerable discomfort. I don't do that any more... no, actually, I tell a lie; I do it sometimes when I'm paralytically drunk but that's not really that often these days.

I also did this a while, but with my fingernails.
I also didn't believe it, that it's selfharming behaviour, but after I found out, I wanted to stop.
It's not easy, but it's possibly with relieving your stress.

I know it very exactly. Because I also have it.
I also thought this has nothing to do with stress and so on, but in reallity my stresslevel was chonically too high.
Autistic people can't cope with stress very well, but have chronically too much.

I Do the same plainly out of boredom. Try coating your lips with something yucky tasting it may differ you from putting your lip in your mouth to begin with!!

It happens when I'm bored too! I actually find that coating my lips with something such as petroleum jelly helps me stop myself a little bit, and it also helps the lips heal at the same time.

No way I do this too! Ditto to the above suggestions

I've been doing that since I was in kindergarten and still haven't found a way to stop. Petroleum jelly is a temporary solution, but now I realize there is probably a deeper problem which should be fixed.

You are right, it is a temporary solution.

Get a tangle.

If you're in the UK, you can get one for free with an NHS stop smoking kit. I ordered one myself, even though I quit smoking long before I had one one these packs, I just wanted the tangle from it.

http://smokefree.nhs.uk/quit-tools/quit-kit/#na

I don't understand. I don't smoke or have addictions to smoking.

Do you think something bad will happen if you don't do it? That's how you can tell it's OCD or not.

Skin picking and chewing is its own anxiety disorder (forget the name).

In a way, maybe. If I don't do it, I will get ancy like I feel I should be doing it.

Well I have a habit of picking the dry skin off my lips...I try to just use chapstick if they get dry but I always end up picking at it anyways. I don't really know of a good way to stop other then trying not to, but that doesn't seem to work to well.

The use of certain types of chapstick may make your lips dry.