Do you do weird things to urself to make urself feel better?

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16 May 2007, 2:43 pm

I bite myself alot, not just because I'm nervous or anxious, or upset, just because sometimes it feels good. For some reason I like the feeling of skin between my teeth, probably another texture problem. I dont't know but it makes me feel alot better after I do it though. I also hit myself on the head, not to hurt myself but to make myself feel better, like if I start feeling weird, I'll hit myself on the head and gives me weird sensations, that makes my body tingle, never understood that either. Does anybody have weird things they do to themselves like I do?



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16 May 2007, 2:45 pm

I bite my hands and my fingers till there are red teeth marks on them.
I hit myself on the head as well, but that's usually when I've pissed myself off.



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16 May 2007, 2:48 pm

I hit my head, or I pick at my skin too.



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16 May 2007, 2:50 pm

I've done the biting, head hitting (quite alot), hit myself with objects, self harmed (but not too bad).



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16 May 2007, 2:56 pm

i rub my hands or fingers together, obviously nail biting ( i regularly pull my nails off my feet, actually that doesn't make me feel better, probably something else.)
I never banged my head, but do rub my forehead and scratch head; i am reminded of the Kafka short-story The Bachelor.
When i was younger i could put cigarettes out on my arm. Never really felt it, i won a few bets against drunkards doing this too. But i dont self-arm like this anymore.



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16 May 2007, 7:21 pm

I used to pluck the hair off my legs with tweezers when I was bored. It was almost like an addiction. I'd do it all the time when I was watching television, just to give my hands something to do. I think I might have unconsciously picked this habit up from my mother, because she used to do it all the time when I was a kid.



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16 May 2007, 10:34 pm

Stimming. All Stimming.

I do it took. I... well.. I can admit it here, Pick. I pick scabs, blackheads, zits, blemishes. I hold my nose when very nervous. Sometimes the skin on my nose where the.... Uh. how do I explain. Where it branches off of the face. My skin there chafes, so I scrape it off when nervous or otherwise distressed.


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17 May 2007, 2:07 am

I tried biting my upper arm because I'd seen on TV that it made some people feel better - didn't do anything for me so I stopped.

I can do something really weird with my head (maybe brain), if I concentrate and kind-of mentally squeeze the middle of my brain, I get a really good feeling. Like maybe some hormone is being release. It's really weird. I told a friend once, and he thought it was cool, but that he'd never experienced anything similar.



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17 May 2007, 2:34 am

I pick my skin and hair. I have lots of split ends form because I dye and straighten my hair, which is really bad for it.


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17 May 2007, 2:40 am

its like i am under water and my ears are clogged...i cannot hear the outside world which is great and i can focus momentarly.i do this when i am either overwhelmed, paniced, or feeling weird.......

i sometimes bang my head against the wall and rocking as well any other time....

i use to have a weird obsessive thing with blinking constantly as well when i was younger but i think i grew out of it thankfully...


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17 May 2007, 3:20 am

I used to do a lot of skin picking. Not so much now, but I did for many years. And when I was younger I bit my fingernails.



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17 May 2007, 5:32 am

Oh Yeah!