I have a bad stim, needs to be changed.

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I have a really bad stim, I pick my nose. I try to resist in public but it drives me insane sometimes. Are there strategies to help change my stim,better yet not do it at all.

rub something spicy on your picking finger so it'll burn your nose after

^ lol

I pick my nose all the time and I'm hardly aware of it. I also touch/rub my nose a lot. I'm trying to cut down on it. Don't really have any advice except to try to be really conscious of it and every time you do it acknowledge it and reprimand yourself (not too harshly, of course )

Okay I admit I have this compulsion of touching the tip a dog's nose (but I always purell after) its weird, I know... but its the cold feeling I like. I know they are sensitive to touch so I am always gentle but its a weird compulsion that I have always had.

you know even an alcoholic cant change unless he has acknowledged he has a problem
the fact that you have identified and recognised this behaviour as a problem is all you need to do.
the rest will come.

That's funny, I have the compulsion to touch my nose every time I pay the cashier in the supermarket. (Perhaps I subconsciously feel I'm paying through my nose.)

The best way to combat an impulse is to deflect it. First, become aware of what you're doing, then, as that hand rises to touch your nose, do something else with it instead - twist a lock of hair, pull your earlobe (one of Humphrey Bogart's idiosyncracies), straighten out your collar, anything.

Replace the stim. That's the only thing that ever works for me. It's hard, but it can work.

As for the nose picking, use Kleenex, a saline mist-er to moisten things up and blow. I can't stand my nose being "full", so I moisten, blow, and use a finger in a kleenex. That way Im' less tempted to do anything inapropriate in public. Trust me, it's worth working on as people see this as really gross.

I have to do the same things with my ears, as I had a tendency to pick in there as well. Sigh...I'd like to have a useful stim, like constant exercise...lol

I used to have that problem, though it's something was good at hiding...I bite my knuckles to stop myself now. I'd suggest a less painful alternative, though.

I have bad stims to, I learned to do them when alone, however my stims are nothing gross just very weird facial/hand movements.

There's things you can do that are surreptitious enough not to bug anybody...

i pick my nose because i HAVE to my medical condition gives me really weak respiratory muscle so i cant push air through rapidly. so i just pick it otherwise the stuff dries into a crust and hurts.

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