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Lip-licking

insomniacnimrod

Hi!
I would like to find someone who had it in their childhood. When I was 6 years old, I licked my upper lip sooo frequently so that it literally became dark red, and my mom took me to different doctors to find out what on earth it was. Only now I see that it was a kind of stimming. Do you agree, that it could have been stimming?

I'm 26 years old and I was diagnosed...yesterday. I used to be diagnosed with anxiety disorder, BPD and bipolar disorder, but my current psychiatrist cancelled all these diagnoses saying i was misdiagnosed. The problem is that I live in Russia and here that's a tricky task to find a doctor of evidence‑based medicine in a small city (mine's population is 350k people)

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  • Hello insomniacnimrod, and welcome to the online community.  It's great to have you here.

    What you describe definitely sounds like it could have been stimming!  There are so many different ways to stim outside of the more commonly recognised ones like hand-flapping or echolalia.  You can read more about stimming on our guidance page here, if you would like: Repeated movements and behaviour (stimming)

    Congratulations to you as well for receiving a diagnosis!  We also have some information available on life after diagnosis here that you may like to have a look at: After Diagnosis  (Please note that some of the information is specific to the UK so may not be relevant to you.)

    I hope you enjoy your time here on the online community!

    - Nicola Mod

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  • Hello insomniacnimrod, and welcome to the online community.  It's great to have you here.

    What you describe definitely sounds like it could have been stimming!  There are so many different ways to stim outside of the more commonly recognised ones like hand-flapping or echolalia.  You can read more about stimming on our guidance page here, if you would like: Repeated movements and behaviour (stimming)

    Congratulations to you as well for receiving a diagnosis!  We also have some information available on life after diagnosis here that you may like to have a look at: After Diagnosis  (Please note that some of the information is specific to the UK so may not be relevant to you.)

    I hope you enjoy your time here on the online community!

    - Nicola Mod

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