In case you don't know what OCD is, here's your good pal wiki. Anyone have an ocd? Too be honest, I thought the idea of having an OCD was rather dumb, and thought, "Why not just NOT do whatever your OCD inquires." Well I developed severe anxiety in the past couple years, last year being the worst. And maybe 6 months ago, I started a behavior which I thought nothing of, until probably a couple weeks ago. Lip skinning. Not sure how I started it, or why, but whenever I grew stressed out and began to panic, I would actually skin my lip. Which is basically picking at dry spots on your lip and peeling a very small portion of skin off. It hurts, but feels good at the same time. I guess I would do it all the time, and my girlfriend would slap my hand away if I started because she knows I don't realize I'm doing it. Sometimes though, it would become very bad, to the point my whole lip was bleeding, and all my fingertips were covered in blood. I have pictures if anyone is curious to see. I never thought of it being an OCD, but rather just a bad habit. I looked it up a couple weeks ago just curious if anyone else does this, and bam, pages on ocd came up. And "skin picking" itself is an ocd, which does include the lip. My lips aren't that bad as I've forced myself to stop doing it, either by constantly putting chapstick on my lips or by actually bandaging my thumbnails (which I used to skin). Weird how you do shit you never realize. Here's a wiki page more specifically on skin picking. Also, here is a post on a forum I just found about it, and I can relate to everything the OP says. "I couple of days before New Year's Eve I was standing in the men's room at my job. Instead of making a resolution I thought: what else can I work on and self-improve? The question was quickly answered: lip picking. I have been picking my lip for over 30 years. I guess I started around 8 or 10. I can remember being around this age, standing in front of a full-length mirror and watching my fingers pull at dry skin on my lip. I am 42 now. Most of the time I pick my skin during stressful, anxious, or frustrating times. When it bleeds my mind's reply is the usual: the bleeding was unfortunate but I had to pull/pick the lip. It feels good afterwards when I run my finger over the picked area and it's smooth. The majority of times when I pick I also go into a trance. I guess that since the majority of the trigger is stress and/or anxiety/frustration, the trance takes me away from the negativity--momentarily blocks it out. Sometimes I will pick when I am bored, when I am concentrating, or for no apparent reason. I have pretty much gotten used to the pain and afterwards always feel bad about the red spot that occurs after the bleeding has stopped. " Thoughts GC? Anyone else do this, or have an OCD of their own? I was inspired to make this thread because I read of another blades ocd with odd numbers.
I have symmetrical OCD and it's not a joke. People throw the term around real lightly and joke about it but it's a serious thing. I used to have to do everything the same amount of times with each hand so they were even and i didn't favor a hand. Now the good thing is it makes me really good at math i see patterns and ways to do problems none of my teachers have ever seen. The worst part is i have to do things in a certain order before i can go to bed and relax if i don't i get fucking anxious and angry same with any of my obssessions if i don't do them i can not rest until i fix it. It makes doing simple things a big pain in the ass and it's in no way funny to say things about being "OCD" about something.
hmmm is there a way to cure ocd? like you know how you get uncomfortable as fuck if you don't do your ritual or whatever what if you smoked a shit ton of weed and you're like woah i dont give a fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
The weird thing is, for me at least, it got worst when I smoked. It's when I picked to the point of digging holes in my lips. If I'm sober I'll stop when there's blood but when I'm high I just kept going till there was nothing left to pick...
I'm sorry about your disorder I nibble at the skin on my lips, as well as bite my nails. Mild ocd maybe?
do you get like bad panic when you can't pick your lips though or is it just like you dont know when you're doing it
There isn't really a cure besides breaking yourself of your rituals and alot of SSRI's from what my psychologist told me. In the end you can improve it but it will never really leave.
Everybody has a little bit of OCD. The best advice I can give you is to see a professional if it is really disturbing your lifestyle.
I just don't know when I do it. Never really freak out if I don't do it. But if I feel like I haven't finished picking my lips and I've already started, I'll probably keep going.
I never thought of it as an OCD before, but I kind of do the same thing as the lip picking - except I grab the dry piece of skin with my teeth and peel it off. I have certain quirks about patterns and symmetry as well, most of them are just mundane enough that I never considered them OCD until other people pointed them out. With symmetry, I can see something and it'll give me a weird nagging feeling in my lower lumbar area, but I can't necessarily explain what triggered it all the time. For example, when I came home from school for christmas this year I noticed 3 pictures on the wall in the living room, a larger family portrait in the center, and smaller pictures of myself and my sister on either side, offset vertically (the pictures basically formed something like `|, ). The first time I glanced at it, I got that weird feeling in my back. The whole family was sitting around opening presents on Christmas, and I was sitting on the other side of the room facing that wall. I zoned out for a while staring at them, then figured out why it was bothering me. The picture on the bottom right side was 1/8th of an inch further away from the center picture than the one on the top left. And while typing this, I unknowingly peeled 2 hunks of dry skin off my bottom lip.
Are you actually diagnosed with OCD? It kinda sounds like you're just really stressed out my sis did the lip picking without even knowing it because she had extreme anxiety. Now she takes meds for it and i haven't seen her do it since. OCD makes you see things differently than normal people and you do things different. The compulsive part comes in where you'll compulsively do something in a certain order or certain way without thinking and you can't stop until it's perfect. You develope rituals like mine before sleep is, Smoke, pee, drink milk, wash hands, hand sanitize hands, lay down and repeat each time i have to pee. I also have to continually get up until i can't pee anymore. The OCD depending on how bad it is reaches into multiple aspects of your life from school to hygene to driving. I have rituals that i do without noticing for everything i do. I hate cleaning because if i start to clean it all has to be perfectly clean. It's a love hate thing i love the precision and detail it gives me in school and my driving but having to do that sleep thing and cleaing thing makes me want to wrench my balls off instead. OCD doesn't make you do one specific thing we like to call those BAD HABITS, if you truly are OCD it makes you have anxiety attacks and extreme rage if something stops you from your ritual it will seep into all aspects of your life it's not just one little thing you do that's just a habit not OCD. I also wanna say ITS VERY VERY INSULLTING when someone claims OCD thinking it makes them special or stand out it doesn't it just hurts and offends ppl who have to deal witht his shit everyday and put their life on hold at times to deal with their obsessions.
I hate shit like this. DON'T SELF DIAGNOSE; go see a psychologist if you think you might have OCD. Just because you have some tendencies related to OCD doesn't mean you have OCD. You're insulting the people around you that have a serious illness, and you're making yourself worse by not taking responsibility and surrendering control. EVERYONE has tendencies they could call OCD. I feel compelled to, round to the nearest 5 or 0 -wash both hands if they don't feel the same -spit into the toilet when I flush it -constantly play with my tongue inside my mouth -bit skin off my lips There are more, but I don't have OCD. My sister even counts steps, but she doesn't have OCD either.
I have it as well. I was diagnoced with it when I was really young. I mostly turn things certain ways. Like bottles, I turn the labels certain ways. I mostly dont do that anymore though. One of the things now I do is certain paths I drive. For example I take a certain way to work everyday and It just feels weird to me if I dont take those roads. I also always have to make sure my car is locked. Ive even gone out of buildings If I wasnt sure that I locked it. Mine isnt as bad as it used to be though. I only do these things now if I remember them and pay lot of attention to it, used to if I didnt do them I would freak out and have anxiety attacks but I dont anymore.
Ohhh god, when I'm at someones house and something is crooked or slightly off-center, it takes every fiber of my being to not get up and fix it. I've never been diagnosed with OCD, but I definitely have some... er... "quirks". Every time I leave the house, I have to try the door after I lock it. I always check multiple times to make sure I didn't leave something plugged in (like a hair straightener or blow dryer). I move things a lot just because they aren't quite in the "right" place, usually this involves moving it a half-inch or rotating it just slightly. Sometimes there will be like a shirt on the floor or something, and it just doesn't look right, so I'll move the sleeve a bit, or turn it over, or put something else on top of it. There's no rhyme or reason to any of it, I just have to do it.
OP, what you have sounds more like body-focused repetitive behavior. It's not that you feel the NEED to do it, it's just so habitual that you can't stop. I do the same with my cuticles, either biting or picking, and with my lips, usually just biting them unless I have a big hunk of skin. It's quite hard to stop. The other day I tried not picking or biting and I was irritable and my anxiety felt through the roof.
I check my phone like every 30 minutes besides when i sleep and shit but sometimes i dont check it for hours lol cause i forget but yeah..
Yea, I didn't think I was insulting anyone. I'm not trying to FIT IN or anything. I mean it's all over the internet, do a search on lip skinning and they all say it's a form of OCD so I would assume it is an OCD. Especially when it's a result of my anxiety. By definition, it's, "a mental disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce anxiety, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety, or by combinations of such thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions)." Just because it's not as severe as other OCD situations doesn't mean it isn't one. Some people pick their lip, and some people pick their whole body.
I'm not even going to bother. This is probably my biggest pet peeve, and I'll get myself banned if I have to argue my side. Go see a psychologist; it's not healthy to let OCD fester. Hopefully I won't be compelled to come back here.