stop biting my lip

I’m gonna try to stop biting my lip, it looks bad sometimes.and its healthier for me.

Self cannibalisation… yet another one of my subconscious habits I need to kick.

It makes my face look ugly, hurts sometimes, even bleeds! But the worst is that it makes my jaw hurt badly. As I bite the insides too, it’s all wrecked.

I can’t stop doing it. I force myself to lay off for a couple days. Just as it starts healing, I encounter some kind of tense situation where I get nervous (e.g. a test I didn’t study for) and it kind of goes from there. As I do it, I realize it’s messed up, disgusting and will start hurting, but I do it anyway. What is wrong with me?

I guess if I can refrain from biting my lip for a month, I will consider this goal accomplished.

EDIT: caught myself doing it again, luckily stopped before I could get too far… wow this is going to be hard

EDIT #2: Goddamit, I couldn’t stop myself. My lip is practically gone and I have to wait for it to grow back so I can try this goal again.

i started this habit about a year ago and no matter what, when i am preoccupied i start to bite my lips. I don’t realize until most of my lip has been bitten then i have a horrid mouth & have to wait until it grows back. sounds scanky and is!

So, today I’ve decided to focus on this and the sticky notes resolution.

I looked up some information, and replaced my lip balm with Suave Advanced Therapy lotion. It tastes god-awful, so hopefully, after scraping something so disgusting into my mouth a few times, I’ll never want to do it again.

The fear factor also helps, because I see several places where the bottle tells me ‘for external use only’. I’m deathly afraid of biting my lip.

How serious are they really about this ‘external use’ thing? Do they mean, ‘if you drink this, you will be ill and/or die’, or ‘if a few milligrams of this slips into your mouth, you will be ill and/or die’? How much attention should I pay to his ominous warning of external use?

I suppose we’ll know by tomorrow.

i look like i’m retarded, eating my lips or fingers all the time. i cant stop, because i feel like i cant take it when i’m not occupying my mind with biting…i’ve already cracked a tooth, my favorite biting tooth, but it just wont end. i need another way to deal with things. i’m already an artist, drummer, sculpter and web designer. what else can i do to occupy my mind???!!!

I read a lot of your comments and was so surprized to see the similarities. I found a good lip moisturizer- Blistex Medex (or something like that)- it has this ‘cooling effect’ and makes my lips feel really good. When the sores get to hurting too bad, I broke down and bought baby Ora-gel…you know, for teething…and just apply it to the sores. My lip feels like it’s stick’n out a mile when it’s numb, but hey, no pain! The gum and candy seem to work pretty good, too. Even excercising has helped me…it keeps my mind occupied and i don’t feel as ‘stressed’. we’ll see how it goes…

I’ve never had any nervous habits before (or none that I realized!). But we’re going through a stressful time in our marriage and while we were driving home one night, I chewed my lip the whole way. It was bad—big ol’ sore, my lip puffed out and burn like crazy! I just kept telling myself, ‘boy, that was stupid. I’ll never do that again.’

It took what seemed like forever for the swelling to go down and the soreness to stop—it was almost unbearable at times (we have 4 little kids and ofcourse I get bopped in the mouth and stuff with them jumpin’ around-ouch!). Well, I talked to a councelor and ,ofcourse, he says it’s stress! duh! But I took his advice and try to talk things out and not just ‘stuff’ them inside, etc.

It was good for a few days, but now, a month later, it’s obvious that I’m ‘hooked’ or whatever you want to call it. It’s like an addiction. I ‘like’ the pain and the little ‘rush’ you get when you get a good pull. But the soreness and swelling afterwards just wear me out. I get really irritable and just want it to stop…and the next thing you know, I’m washing dishes and biting my cheek, or messing with an older sore…how do you stop? I’ve even caught myself doing it while I’m having fun, hanging out with my friend-not stressed or bored-it’s just a big habit now.

How does it happen? No bad habits…then, Boom, hard core lip chew-er. I almost feel powerless. Is that a cop-out?

I really need to stop biting my lips…
I bite them when im nervous.

They end up bleeding loads…
But i never stop biting,
Then they get sore :(