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[radioheadrule83]

How many of you do this?

I have never been the type to eat my own boogers or anything (well not as an older specimen anyway), but I have other habits that I know to be kind of gross.

I bite the skin off my lips if they're chapped (sometimes to the point I make them sore), and I bite the inside of my cheeks all the time. I bite my nails. If there are no nails to bite I bite the skin around the nails. Now I've got some facial hair going, I've found myself trimming my moustache with my teeth too. It seems like a subconscious thing, a nervous thing... I was doing some combination of the above at the weekend, because I was at a party where some guy (who has learning difficulties and apparently works with racists) was being obnoxiously and publicly racist and threatening to start trouble. While trying to intervene and control the situation, I was failing hard and just wanted to leave... that could be a whole other topic really, the whole night was awful for me thanks to this one guy. Edit: I'd just like to clarify - thankfully, the crap he was spewing stayed out of earshot of anyone who might have also had their night ruined. If I do it when I'm not nervous, I sometimes wonder if its anything to do with me skipping breakfast.

I don't like it and I'd like to stop, but by the time I realise I'm doing some of these things, I've already been doing them for several minutes.

Anyone know what causes this kind of behaviour - and if it has any kind of adverse affect? Apart from disgusting people I mean... I know that girls (or dudes) who chew their own hair can actually get hairballs for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel_syndrome

Anyone ever managed to quit biting their nails for example?

 

[DarkKyo]

Pardon me while I go throw up.

 

[MikeE21286]

yikes

reminds me of that show My Strange Addiction...

 

[fierrotlepou]

How many of you do this?

I have never been the type to eat my own boogers or anything (well not as an older specimen anyway), but I have other habits that I know to be kind of gross.

I bite the skin off my lips if they're chapped (sometimes to the point I make them sore), and I bite the inside of my cheeks all the time. I bite my nails. If there are no nails to bite I bite the skin around the nails. Now I've got some facial hair going, I've found myself trimming my moustache with my teeth too. It seems like a subconscious thing, a nervous thing... I was doing some combination of the above at the weekend, because I was at a party where some guy (who has learning difficulties and apparently works with racists) was being obnoxiously and publicly racist and threatening to start trouble. While trying to intervene and control the situation, I was failing hard and just wanted to leave... that could be a whole other topic really, the whole night was awful for me thanks to this one guy. If I do it when I'm not nervous, I sometimes wonder if its anything to do with me skipping breakfast.

I don't like it and I'd like to stop, but by the time I realise I'm doing some of these things, I've already been doing them for several minutes.

Anyone know what causes this kind of behaviour - and if it has any kind of adverse affect? Apart from disgusting people I mean... I know that girls (or dudes) who chew their own hair can actually get hairballs for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel_syndrome

Anyone ever managed to quit biting their nails for example?

What the?

 

[BadTaste]

I suffer from Trichotillomania (well not as heavily as when I was younger). I would pull out my eyelashes and eat them. This started when I was about 8 years old and I almost always had bald eyelids. People began to notice during High School which killed my self-esteem. I'm 23 now and am recovering from doing it. I still remember the days when people made fun of me for doing it, ugh.

 

[strafer]

 

[.GqueB.]

I do this. I pretty much eat all of me. It's quite disgusting but it's been so normal for me that it's hard to even stop since I don't really notice it.

 

[PJV3]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-fpVfyRMaUE&feature=fvwrel

 

[i_am_ben]

I bite my finger nails.

 

[Dereck]

 

[fallagin]

I do that kind of stuff too, of course I don't have a mustache to bite on so I don't do that. Don't know what causes it, it's pretty strange.

Actually, I don't bite my cheeks(though I used to) but I do all those other things.

 

[electroshockwave]

 

[kazebyaka]

I like to chew my beard, but i don't actually eat it

 

[Nemesis_]

I think maybe the reactions to this topic could've been tempered with a little bit of a less gross title. >_>

 

[blackflag]

Perfect.


I bite my nails.

 

[Vashetti]

 

[Ebris]

Nails/side of fingers. Really awful habit that I need to curb.

 

[aku:jiki]

I had all of these problems from early childhood until my teens, when I had a goth punk phase and as such had nail polish. Biting down on gross chemicals and horrid flavours put a stop to any nail biting, which just lead to me biting less on myself in general.

So, yeah, wear makeup and a silly top hat and you'll be good.

 

[electricshake]

I have almost entirely stopped biting my nails. Still do it occasionally (usually when stressed/nervous) but currently all my nails extend beyond the ends of my fingers (if that makes sense). I'm not really sure how I managed to stop, it was a gradual thing. I also have no idea what age I started it at but I probably did it for at least 20 years. I'm the same as you though, I often start subconsciously and usually once I've started I find it difficult to stop, so I have to find something to do with my hands. I bit the skin round the side as well, particularly my thumbs but again I don't really do it that much any more. I do still chew on my lip, and if the skin is dry I do bite it off.

 

[revolverjgw]

 

[Suite Pee]

I have no idea why I enjoy the skin around my fingernails.

 

[BGBW]

I eat myself out.

 

[I NEED SCISSORS]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

 

[Winterfang]

I bite the upper corners of my thumbs, near the nails. It doesn't takes like anything it just chewy. I don't eat it though, gross.

 

[Viewtify]

It's always fun to pick off scabs and eat them.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

Reminded me of this
For those who want to spoil it, or are to queezy for it

Spoiler

Drinks Blood and Eats Teeth, Foot Cheese, and a Placebo

I do bite my nails very often though

 

[andymcc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagia

 

[Indrid Cold1]

I bite the skin at the sides of my fingernails, until they bleed and become very painful. I am so addicted to doing this I sometimes put a plaster on them so I physically can't get at them anymore. Strange.

 

[Mully]

When I get nervous I tend to gnaw at the sides of my fingers.

 

[jaxword]

Anyone ever managed to quit biting their nails for example?

This may sound weird, but look into nail polish and/or nail strengthening liquids that you may find in women's cosmetics.

The gross taste on the nail will help you curb the habit.

Post back if you try this with your results!

 

[TUSR]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

okay im out

 

[Holmes]

Uh... well, I used to sometimes bite the inside of my mouth under my bottom lip. Then I stopped when it kept constantly getting sore and a bit swollen. Used to bite my nails until I got braces, and when they came off I never had a desire to bite them ever again.

 

[Skeyser]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

dude

 

[radioheadrule83]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

this needs to go on @NeoGAFShitPosts - not because its a bad post, but because it is specifically about shit

The words "iron-like bitterness" were a bit too good at helping me to uncontrollably imagine the taste of shit btw, ha - thanks for that


I'll try the nail polish thing... my mother suggested that too

Autophagia sounds like it can get quite extreme!

 

[jaxword]

I like to chew my beard, but i don't actually eat it

 

[BGBW]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

I need scissors to stab my eyes out.

 

[Ostinatto]

i dont chew my beard since i started to smoke cigarrettes.

problem solved.

 

[MarkMclovin]

When I was a kid, I used to eat boogies, scabs and nails, including toe nails, but I don't do it anymore. I have sometimes caught myself picking my nose and just about to chow down on it, but I stop myself now.

It turns my stomach when I catch other people picking their nose though.

EDIT - Chewing hair though? Urgh.

 

[PJV3]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

Next time could you tell me how Sweetcorn tastes after it has finished its journey.

 

[GavinGT]

Biting and consuming are two very different things.

It turns my stomach when I catch other people picking their nose though.

I make a point to pick my nose in front of my friends. No fucks are given.

 

[methane47]

I bite the skin around my fingers, lips, my inner cheeks
I used to bit my nails as well but a girl told me once that it looks bad and i stopped that pretty quick lol.

I still kind of bite them now and again, but more to keep them in shape, so they always have a 3-5 mm white strip at the end of them

That said I'm pretty sure i know why i bite stuff, and its mostly when I'm bored. I pretty destroy my fingers when i'm bored.

 

[Replicant]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

 

[revolverjgw]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

okay im out

 

[Delicious Waffles]

I bite the skin right above my thumbnails. Mostly do it whenever I actually cut the nails.

 

[vladdamad]

this thread is going places

 

[SeriousApes]

I bite at the inside of my cheeks occasionally. I'm not trying to eat them or anything. I don't know why, it's like a tick or something. I bite right-left-right, and usually finish it off with a good old mouth stretch. Sucks that my jaw pops a lot now. I also do the chapped lips thing.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

What point is there in visiting the Nose Mine if I can't share my gold with the townspeople?

 

[Router]

ITT - People that need therapy!

 

[AzureSkies]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

 

[GavinGT]

When I was young I used to enjoy wrapping my hand in toilet paper and catching my own feces to inspect them. One time I decided to lick an exceptional specimen just to see if it really tasted as bad as it smelled, but to my surprise it didn't actually taste of much. It's just a warm feeling on the tongue, slimy texture, and a slightly iron-like bitterness.

*Disapproving gif*