#cheek biting

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morsicatio buccarum flag for myself!

the top two stripes are from the general bfrb flag, the middle represents the discoloration often seen inside the mouth after chewing, and the bottom two represent biting/chewing.

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[occidental-wolf]

i've been absolutely eating up my lips and the insides if my cheeks lately, does anyone know anything good to help with stress chewing/self biting?

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Hello everyone,

I thought I would share some information about body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs). According to this article:

Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) include any repetitive self-grooming behavior that involves biting, pulling, picking, or scraping one’s own hair, skin, lips, cheeks, or nails that can lead to physical damage to the body and have been met with multiple attempts to stop or decrease the behavior.

Types of BFRBs:

Hair Pulling Disorder

(Trichotillomania) causes people to pull out the hair from their scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows, and other parts of the body resulting in noticeable bald patches. Approximately 5-20% of people who have hair pulling disorder also swallow the hair.

Skin Picking Disorder

(Excoriation) causes people to repetitively touch, rub, scratch, pick at, or dig into their skin, resulting in skin discoloration, scarring, and even severe tissue damage and disfigurement.

Nail Biting Disorder

(Onychophagia) causes people to bite their nails past the nail bed and chew on cuticles until they bleed, leading to soreness and infection.

Cheek Biting

Often referred to as "cheek chewing," chronic cheek biting can result in a myriad of complications. Redness, painful sores, and tears can occur in the mucosa, which is the inner lining of the mouth.

I will leave the full article below for anyone who wants to read it. I hope many of you found this helpful.

Body-focused repetitive behaviors include repetitive behavior that involves biting, pulling, picking, or scraping one’s own hair, skin, lips

Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs)

[funkii-fox]

I hate trying to look up solutions to my cheek biting, bc half of them are “get away from triggers” FUCK YOU THINK IM DOING???? SCRATCHING MY BALLS????? HOW CAN I JUST NOT STRESS WHEN EVERYTHING IS STRESSFUL????

[theoneandonlyneonleon]

I chewed my mouth and now my mouth hurts from the chewing but I can't stop chewing

[musicmakesyousmart]

Culled ​/ ​Cheek Biting

Structures Without Purpose

2017

[bestrongglobal]

Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors

Body-focused repetitive behaviors are real and can have severe impact on how people feel, specifically about themselves. According to the TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors, a research, education and support organization, body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) is a general term including several related disorders such as nail-biting, hair pulling, skin picking, lip or cheek…

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Hey there! I think your blog is wonderful!! Thank you for all the tips and motivational stuff on here. I was just wondering, do you have any tips for cheek biting? Because it’s one of the least represented BFRBs and the only thing I can find is chewing gum (which I can’t do as it gives me headaches)? Goes it doesn’t use my hands so fidget toys don’t really make a difference, Again thank you for keeping this blog 😁😁

Hi anon! Thanks for your ask today. Recently I’ve been much more aware of the way that I, and other people with BFRB’s treat eating compulsions. I’m planning a post about coping mechanisms for eating compulsions in the future, so definitely stay tuned for a long post about about that very soon. It’ll have a lot more detail than I’m probably going to be able to give on this post.

I totally feel you on the chewing gum giving you headaches, that’s never worked for me either. Something that I find useful with managing all of my particular BFRB’s, is substitution. 

With eating compulsions specifically, I’m not convinced that eating gum is similar enough to the sensation to provide the right stimulation (altho what doesnt work for me can still work for someone else!)

For managing my eating compulsions, I find that eating small pieces of shaved coconut is really helpful, because the sensation is very similar to biting small bits of skin from my nails. This could be worth trying out if the sensation is similar enough!

Along with that, there are specific stim toys that are designed to be chewed, such as chewellery (jewellery designed to be chewed). With cheek biting specifically I’d look for something that’s able to fit into the back of the mouth to chew with your molars, as lots of chewellery is designed to be chewed with the front of the mouth.

Particularly with cheek biting, eating something like pastry can help as it can stimulate that same “peel away” feeling.

At the moment, these are the two things that I use to manage my eating compulsions, but as I said, I’m planning a post in the future about how to deal with eating BFRBs. If any of my followers have any ideas, please add your recommendations on this post!

I hope you found this useful!