Jun
This is serious. My friend has to have a tube with her at all times and becomes irritable when she doesn't. She uses a tube a week and wakes up in the middle of the night to put it on. What types of addictive chemicals are in Chapstick?
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They don't have addictive chemicals in chapstick but yes it is kind of addictive because it has alcohol in it so it ends up drying out your lips an hour or so after application. To stop this she needs to use vaseline or some other brand w/o this additive. Anyways its true and I think that chapstick sucks because most people don't realize that it actually makes the problem worse.
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I've got a similar thing going on where if I don't have a chapstick I begin to freak out. i took accutane for 5 months so I definitely NEEDED the chapstick and then it just got to be a psychological addiction where I don't have super-dry lips but still apply it constantly.
People used to state petrolatum was addictive but it isn't, at least not in a harmful way. Now I just keep about 15 tubes–one for each purse, backpack, automobile, locker, etc.
I gotta state I don't put it on in the middle of the night though. That sounds to me like obsessive-compulsive disorder. Does she have other compulsive habits?
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She might have a condition related to OCD-called Pica. It is the compulsion to eat something different from foodstuff. For example-Some people crave and like to eat pencil errasers. I used to crave the orange wax halloween whisles-I ate them a lot and would have eat them but they disappeared after halloween. Look under the term pica-in your browser for more info. the NCBI Bookself link is listed below.
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I like eating the strawberry one.
I don't think it's that weird; I carry a tin of Vaseline with me at all times and if I don't, I get irritable. I don't think it has any addictive chemicals in it.
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Chap-stick, medically proved answer…no!
Visine, medically proved answer…yes!
Your friend…compulsive disorder! A tube a week is excessive.