stop chewing the inside of my mouth

No bitting at all…one thing is for sure…every time I decide to write about it, I can stay w/o doing it…I’m quite sure that this increases awareness…as as everyone here says, if you can avoid the first bite…you are safe…but if you slip, it will be chewing for hours…Let’s see if I will survive the next hours, until we go to bed…and tomorrow…a week day…will keep the results here, during this critical phase…cheers, Andy.

Need to focus on stopping…I’ve been trying to find something on the web to make me stop…it’s so involuntary that it is difficult to stop…in the past days I could stay free from bitting during weekends, an sometimes during the week days…but at night, it’s getting back…I’m quite sure that meditation will help to increase awareness…and maybe there might be something on Chinese medicine that will assist with anxiousness reduction…I’m so ashamed that I can not get rid of this…I was checking something about tics and tourette’s syndrome…there is a list on an article that includes mouth bitting as a tic…see this link…
http://www.tourettes-disorder.com/symptoms/tics.html#ticlist

But point is that there is no clear advice on how to quit…well, hopefully I will find a way to stop during my vacations early August…will stay away of the messy work environment and maybe sometime w/ my wife and kids abroad will be good…

I need to find some sort of medical advice or psychological advice…sometimes I feel that I will not be able to do it alone, without some sort of medication…I’m still under homeopathic treatment, to reduce anxiousness and stress, but for that specific thing is not helping much…good luck to all of you that are feeling the need to quit that…good luck to me too!

Cheers,

Andy

My God, That’s so hard…it’s been very difficult to control…sometimes I can take through the weekends, but on the week days I totally destroy my mouth inside…it’s involuntary that I really don’t know what to do…need to refocus on NOT doing it. I would really appreciate if one of you could send d tips on how to stop…I need to get my mouth guards back! Cheers.

After 10 months doing well, the past 3 days have been very challenging…after a huge disappointment at work, I’m biting the mouth again…not heavily, but I’m doing it again…it’s related to stress and anxiety for sure. I’m writing again about it, because I guess it helps to built awareness around it…keeps you awake and you can pay more attention to the involuntary biting. I’m trying also the mouth guards again, when it’s to critical it helps…let’s see…I can’t let that get out of control. Things at my work are very much blurry, we don’t know if they will sell the company in my country, and future is not clear at all…so, tons of questions on my mind, and a huge dose of uncertainties…gosh, need to be under control again…STOP, we need to STOP w/ this freaking habit. Good luck to all of you guys…

One good 1st step is to recognize that this is not normal, and maybe is associated w/ some sort of OCD…what is amazing is that there is not a single recommendation here that will help …although we all have this habit, seems that there is no single formula that will solve the problem to all of us…we will have to find our own way…what pisses me off is that I don’t know who might help, like a professional…a shrink, a dentist…who can help w/ this crap?

Now I’m 3 months free…still need to control it…sometimes it is tempting, but awareness is big now and I know where this is going to end if I start again!!!

I’m free of this for some weeks now…over a month…that’s good and you know what, reading the posts here is helping me to go over this crap…everyone, or at least most of us are describing the same sort of compulsion…I made some posts and comments, for the one interested, take a look…I believe that talking about it and reading/searching about his helping me to quit…It can be back, but we are not alone here…As many said here, when I Googled it, I thought it wouldn’t bring anything, and what about this site, the other sites with more psychological insights about it…for sure the awareness and info are helping! Good luck to all of you, and STOP!

First thing that I did on the next day, was to use thru the whole day a stuff used for teeth whitening…it’s a sort of plaque where you put the whitening gel (acid) before go to sleep…that helped me to stop biting the mouth, and as always, if you leave it heal for a day, the compulsion reduces a lot…I’m 5 days without doing it…and to be frank, after reading here that there are almost 200 people doing it, and recognizing it as a problem and something that is harmful…this is helping me to quit…my fingers and nails are also much better, although I’m still pealing once and a while the sides of thumbs…let’s face that as a huge improvement, and hopefully I’ll stop pealing the fingers soon…maybe using same sort of strategy…protecting the wounds, until it heals, and then keeping nails trimmed, so I won’t be tempted to pick it again…so far so good…good luck to all of you…STOP!!! That’s the motto! STOP…be cool, be less anxious and relax…life is beautiful, short and we can not spend time as jerks, making faces and looking like assholes while biting our selves…

Guys, I have the same problem…need to know if anyone from here has a good tip on how to stop (forever), other than chewing gums, drinking water or eating…this might be a more serious disorder, and I’m quite sure that there might be something related to a lack of vitamins and obviously an associated psychological problem too…I had a friend that used to do this, once I tried to talk to him, but he was so embarrassed that he cut the conversation, moving to other subject…sometimes this annoys me pretty much and make me even more anxious than I am…once I stayed for more than a year w/o biting the mouth…I’ve tried many things, as praying, meditating, biting something else, slapping my face…oh my god, that’s ridiculous…but none of those alternatives helped me at the end…I have a homeopathic doctor that helps me a lot, with some of his medicines…sometimes it helps me to stay one or 2 months w/o doing it…but it’s like was said here, If I bite it occasionally, I will start all over again, and god knows when I’ll stop…really, we need to find help…what sort of help do we look for…psychological? A shrink? Dentist? I’ll propose to all of us here to BRING HELP…it’s good to share the problem, it helps also to understand this crazy stuff, BUT WE NEED HELP AND GUIDANCE ON HOW TO STOP…all in all this crap is some sort of self mutilation and can have bad consequences…ALL THE BEST TO YOU, and STOP!!! LET’S STOP!!!!