Weird/embarrassing addiction -
July 6th 2010, 11:39 AM
Ever since I was little Ive had this compulsion about eating my skin- like if I have a scab, I will pick at it and then I cant just throw it away- I have to eat it. Same thing with biting the skin around my nails. I also will pick at the skin around my toe nails and eat that too. And its not just skin- the gunk that in your eyes- I will eat that too. Basically anything that comes off my body I have a compulsion to eat. I dont know why. But if I dont eat whatever it is, like if I throw it out or something instead, I get an uncomfortable feeling- like mild anxiety. I dont have obsessive thoughts like something bad will happen if I dont do it, but the compulsive behavior.
Does anyone else do this or know anyone else who does that? Or am I just weird? Why do I do this? Its kinda gross but Im not sure how to stop. Any ideas?
"Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person." -Gerard Way
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