#wolfbiting

[teenmirror]

Im a Wolfbiter, i bit all my thumbs up They hurt Im legit in pain :( I dont have real thumbs anymore. I cant bend one of them...

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What are you suppose to be thinking about when you are meditating....?

[the-tabularium]

On wolfbiting and identity...

Gender identity and self confidence psychobabble filled with what is probably conjecture under the cut.

Wolf biting is the slang term for any number of body-focused repetitive behaviours [BFRBs] such as biting the skin, knuckles, nails, pulling hair and chewing on the lips. It's unclear if BFRBs are psychologically or behaviourally triggered, with one study currently looking into a possible genetic cause as well.

For me, wolfbiting has always been a key gauge of my psychological state. My wolfbiting/BFRBs are nail chewing, never to a dangerous degree, and chewing of the inside of my mouth. I've always done it but perhaps there's an underlying cause aside from triggers such as stressful situations, boredom and/or mild chaos in general. Perhaps it's also associated with slight body dysmorphia?

Being genderfluid in a rather female body has its unsettling moments. To be quite frank I'd be happy being androgenous and dancing about swinging between presenting as male-female-? but it's unattainable thanks to some hormonal issues [on ya' PCOS]. This has always, and will continue to be an issue with me. This of course has ties to my self confidence. Contrary to the facade I manage to compose, it's a delicate thing that confidence of mine, a fact betrayed by my feather-plucking habit [to use a bit of an animal thing there].

My hobbies don't help much either- writing and art? Two of the most frustrating activities in existence? That's bound to help them BFRBs.

It really wouldn't surprise me to find that my gender identity issues are linked to my BFRB. I'm just grateful they don't get to the extremes like reducing the nail to the quick. The inside of my lips, however, are another story. I don't quite know where I'm going with this other then I've been cooped up with this injury too long, hit the art and writer's block wall and now I'm plucking out all the self confidence I'd built up these past months.

[doublewide2doubletake]

onychophagia. 3 hours and 37 minutes....

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Wolfbiting.

I took a break from blogging when I left town for a week, and the break ended up being nearly three weeks long. LOL.

I wanted to talk briefly about something other than weight loss, if that's okay with y'all. For about twelve years, I've had dermatophagia. I've been googling it and reading everything under the tag on Tumblr for the last couple of days and there are so many people chewing their own fingers and feeling super weird about it, feeling alone, including me - I remember the absolute RELIEF when I first found out I wasn't the only one doing this, when I found out it's a thing with a super-cool nickname ("wolf-biters"? Awesome). So I wanted to talk about it briefly. Also, I found this forum the other day, and I wanted to share that with anyone who's looking for it on Tumblr: it's pretty new and pretty empty, and I'd love it if it became more of a support group. Please join it if you want to get involved, it does have a few members and the posts so far seem really supportive and lovely.

Anyway, on to weight and stuff.

Last Saturday I weighed myself and I was still 143lbs, so, I'm happy with having maintained. I'd like to lose more this week. I feel less motivated now though. I feel happier with myself and that's making me feel okay about my weight. Bah. I'm sort of expecting to have put some on by Saturday, if I keep eating the way I have been. And I plan to quit the gym as soon as I'm well enough to brave the cold: I spend at least a third of my time out of town, and I have no job - I really can't afford the expense right now. As the weather warms up, I'll naturally spend more time outside anyway, which means walking, cus I don't drive and have no money for transport. Plus I eat less in summer. I'M SURE THE WEIGHT WILL JUST FALL OFF LOL.

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