Thanks for the welcomes.

I haven't done it in awhile, but I still have the urge and I have to exercize incredible self-control not to. When I do bite, it's when I'm frustrated with a situation and there's no way out. I used to do it when I was a kid and a teenager because I wasn't allowed to lash out at my mother like she did to me physically. Everytime I get to thinking about what she did to me and how she made me feel, I want to do it again just because I can't stand up to her now either. I suppose I bite because I feel frustrated and helpless and hate myself for being that way.

I'm not seeing a therapist, nor am I on meds. Honestly (before this, that is) I've only admitted it to one friend and very recently, my husband. My friend understood completely, but my husband... He took it fairly well I suppose. I could tell he was uncomfortable when he heard it and he hasn't mentioned it since. (He's in Iraq right now, so it doesn't surprise me. He has bigger fish to fry.)

I'm in the military, so unless I get put on suicide watch and have a big to-do made out of something I want to be kept under wraps, I really can't try to get help.