What disorder is this?

[Nubclear]

I intentionally dry and pick my lips, and then suck on my own blood. After which, I then bite on my lips (not trying to let blood out. I use my fingers for that) and lick my lips alot, and i get immense satisfaction when dead skin comes off.

Sometimes my urge becomes so great.....I can't go to sleep, even if medications attempt to force me.

Not only is this process painful (though oddly that contributes to my pleasure), but it's a bit difficult to explain that red stuff on my fingers and all over my hands. Also, it does make my lips hurt "a bit" afterwards.

People who watch me do it say that sometimes I get to the point where it looks like a wild animal is clawing at my lips.....And whenever it gets really bad, I have EXCESSIVE saliva production, I'm very moody, and seemingly obsessed with picking my lips. I've done this ever since I can remember.

My teeth begin to grind, I feel surges of energy throughout my body, I feel the intense need to contract all my foot mudcles, my tongue, bite on something, (of course) pick my lips, flex my biceps, and all my hand muscles.

What is this? Why is it happening, and how can I stop it? And please, no vampire jokes.... I hear them enough as is.

[Nubclear]

Re: What disorder is this?

Not even a vampire joke.....A bit unusual for Apolyton

[geeslaka]

We must have pick up the same mutation somehow. I get the same way occasionally (though I repress the urge more) Maybe it's from living too close to those damn mormons.

[Clear Skies]

Sounds like a form of obsessive compulsive disorder, but I'm no expert.

I know people with (somewhat milder) forms of this.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Clear Skies
Sounds like a form of obsessive compulsive disorder, but I'm no expert.

Been diagnosed with it. But....I have no "obsession" in this "compulsion".

Also, my doctor says that my OCD is HEAVILY tilted towards "obession" and is about 5 percent "compulsion".

[lightblue]

Some form of self harm complex perhaps? Although this usually manifests in cutting oneself. But I am no doctor, so couldn't really say anything.

[RGBVideo]

What does your blood taste like?

[geeslaka]

I do this so often that my blood seems tasteless. I'm not sure about my gf's though...

[Eli]

It's simple. You're crazy.

[The Mad Monk]

Sounds like an assortment of random tics -- other than the lip licking, do they change in frequency or type? When they come upon you, is it spontaneous and involuntary (such that you can do it without noticing it yourself or when asleep), or are you always conscious of it when it happens and can control your response to some extent (in other words, it's like an "itch" you need to "scratch")?

Do you ever catch yourself needing to say some short word or phrase, perhaps repeatedly?

Are you able to deliberately dampen these urges to a greater or lesser extent when you "need" to, such as at formal gatherings?

[Boris Godunov]

Could it be just a bad habit?

[The Mad Monk]

I'm thinking Tourette's Syndrome.

[Clear Skies]

Doesn't Tourette's manifest almost invariably with verbal tics accompanying any physical ones?

[JohnT]

[The Mad Monk]

No, it can have limited or no verbal tics at all, or verbal tics can come or go. They're a classic symptom, but mostly occur in the more extreme cases.