Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi all. Anxiety has been super high and from reading online I think what I've always had is pica or sensory seeking? I've always chewed toweling fabric! I'll chew it until it falls appart. Worse at times and now I think its anxiety causing me to crave it more and more.
Anyway wondering how I overcome this?
As a kid I was addicted to furniture polish, I'd spray it onto a duster and smell it for ages. Then I found out the harm and stopped thank fully! Luckily I was okay. I'm craving strong smells again lately. I'm worried that the polish craving will come back. Is this also sensory seeking?
It’s not quite the same maybe, but I used to love sucking water out of sponges..... the water tasted better to me and I enjoyed the texture of the sponge mixed with it. I still sometimes get sudden urges to....suck a sponge of water! LOL!
I’ve just recently gotten a new desk and I spend so much of my time at the moment sniffing the wood.
I sniff magazines and books all the time. Any magazine around (as long as the magazine looks new and clean) aren’t safe from my nose. Lol.
You're probably the only person who enjoys the Sunday supplements.
Sunday Supplements?
Ah. Yea I do sniff them at my parents house when I go round for Sunday Tea. I don't buy any newspapers or anything so thats the only place I get them.
The magazines that come with the Sunday papers. I wondered why they come encased in a plastic bag - presumably to keep them fresh for magazine sniffers like yourself.