get into see a therapist who specializes in treating these things. I used to self injure and haven't in 8 long months....I only say long because it is a daily battle and it is very hard but not impossible. I'd also say you should keep a journal and pin point certain anxieties for you and bring them to your therapist so you can come up with healthy coping skills together. Take care and if you want to chat you can message me anytime.

I still pull my hair, not to the point of baldness although I did that to the front of my head when I was five, but I always twist and pull. It is amazing how al these things are linked.

I feel that most people who deal with the stress of any illness develop a range of coping skills. Some of these are more blatant then others. When I was a child I would scratch the skin off my legs until they were raw. No one told me to do this, something inside of me had to find a way to let out some of the stress that was building up. This later turned in full on self injury. My mother bites off the skins around her nails, she's done this since she was a child. I feel that our brain in some respects does what it can to help us cope. Everyone is different, I had a friend with trichotillomania, she pulled out her eye lashes, eye brows and hair and finally used CBT to stop doing it, as it is in part an impulse control issue, now she is an alcoholic. The one bad coping skill for another. I find when I am able to master one problem something else seems to find it's way in. That only proves to me that I have never dealt with the underlining issue,the base line problem. If the source of the coping skill is never worked on you will continue to throw out new ways to deal with the stress and anxiety of the core problem. For me it's childhood abuse, though I am fully aware that it's the catalyst of the majority of my 'problems' I have never really tried to deal with it. So then my 'coping skills' become so bad (like my ED) that they require all the attention while leaving the true cause to continue to perpetuate my illness.
Just my thoughts on 'coping' skill ,my not exactly be on topic.

When I'm overwhelmed by anxiety I selfinjure and at night I scratch myself bloody without knowing it until I wake up.
I used to pull out my eyelashes which I really regret because they didn't come back and I bit of tiny pieces of my tongue. I know: disgusting

Bell, I agree it is so interesting how these things are linked. To what? I can't figure out from where my issues stem. Honestly, my childhood is one to brag about. My parents are not divorced, they're loving, I have a big supportive community, I am self motivated in school, so that pressure is from myself. The only problems I can pinpoint are from comparing myself with my 2 best friends, whom I've known since pre-K. I have always evaluated myself in respect to them. (bad, I know).
Karrin, it's disgusting, but I used to do that too. Not sleep scratching (that I know of) but biting off taste buds. It didn't ever occur to me that these things were linked or a reaction to something deeper.