Peeling off labels?

[Joel7050]

Does anyone else have the obsession of having to peel of all labels on everything? From files to pens, they all come with stickers saying the price and such. I always have to remove them and even feel the urge to remove the labels off the belongings of others. How do I deal with this? Does anyone else have this problem?

 

[Sue]

I have this problem. I always peel labels off everything. It is something that I have been doing for as long as I can remember. I am not sure why I do it or how it all started. Sometimes I will peel it off and then wonder why because I may need it later. I also do it to other people's stuff which can cause problems sometimes. I am not sure how to help you with it because I haven't figured it out myself. I try to stop myself or control myself but no matter how hard I try I can't avoid doing it.

 

[Joel7050]

I have this problem. I always peel labels off everything. It is something that I have been doing for as long as I can remember. I am not sure why I do it or how it all started. Sometimes I will peel it off and then wonder why because I may need it later. I also do it to other people's stuff which can cause problems sometimes. I am not sure how to help you with it because I haven't figured it out myself. I try to stop myself or control myself but no matter how hard I try I can't avoid doing it.

May I know what the methods you have tried, in order to stop this peeling obsession, are? For me, I just try to distract myself and think of other things, especially when the urge is to peel it off of the items of others. For my own things, I'm pretty much fine with removing them. I've found sticky residue from stickers that don't tear away nearly can be removed with an eraser, rubbed rapidly till it turns a little hot.

 

[Panic57]

I don't have the urge to pull of labels of other people's stuff but I have to do it on most of my stuff. Even if I try to leave my pop bottles alone, I inevitable get bored while waiting for something and my fingers are at it before I even realize it. It's not everything though, mostly pop bottles, water bottles, and condiment bottles. I once made the mistake of taking off the tables of my cans and tried cooking with them. I ended up opening most of the cans in my cabinet trying to find pasta sauce and ended up making a casserole with beets, radishes, salsa, and some other things that don't mix. So, despite wanting to rip off the labels, the taste of that casserole still makes

 

[pwarbi]

Peeling labels off things I think is just a way of people keeping their hands occupied, and it's more of a bad habit than anything else. Smoking, drinking too much, biting fingernails are all other things that people do when they get nervous or stressed, and over the course of history I think that at some point we have all at one time or another done things without thinking and it's a way of our sub-concious making ourselves feel more comfortable in a situation without us actually realising it.

 

[Sue]

May I know what the methods you have tried, in order to stop this peeling obsession, are? For me, I just try to distract myself and think of other things, especially when the urge is to peel it off of the items of others. For my own things, I'm pretty much fine with removing them. I've found sticky residue from stickers that don't tear away nearly can be removed with an eraser, rubbed rapidly till it turns a little hot.

I just try to distract myself with something else like you have. I try to talk myself out of it and tell myself I don't have to do it. But sometimes the urge is just too strong and the more I tell myself not to do it the more I want to. It is just one of those things. My daughter is a bartender and she said nothing irks her more then people tearing the labels off the beer bottles and leaving the mess there for her to clean up.

 

[SouthernMom]

I used to pull the labels off of everything! I could not help myself!


Someone pointed out to me that I was just trying to keep my hands busy and that maybe I liked the end result in "finishing" something.


Well now when I have the urge to pull off a label, I do something else. Crafts, coloring, even picking up a notepad and doodling. I still find that I pull of labels more than other people, but distracting myself and keeping my hands busy has really helped a lot.

 

[Joel7050]

Southern, that seems like a very interesting suggestion. I think what I can do is try simple origami or paper cutting, with scrap paper. If I run into more problems I'll be sure to get back to you guys.. I think most importantly is me telling myself to resist the urge. No one else can control my brain..

 

[Laneorexorcist]

I think that I do enjoy peeling off labels of things, but I do not consider it a problem, I think that's just a simple pleasure, but actually now that I think about it, when I start peeling off labels from something that have quite a lot of them I just can't stop until they allpeeled off. But still, I think that's not really a problem when it comes to me, I haven't peeled off the labels from other people's belongings yet. I think that putting stickers on something that you can keep quite close to it and when you feel the urge, you can start peeling the stickers off, not really labels by themselves.

 

[Joel7050]

It's a similar situation here, kind of linked to OCD I believe. Where I'm unable to stop. They must either all have no labels or all have labels, but I end up having to remove labels therefore all of them don't have labels. Stickers are different from labels to me. Stickers and stuck there by me as decoration. Labels come with the product and have no more purpose.

 

[Ashley0323]

This question gets tricky. If a label is on something, and not starting to peel, and looks perfect, then no, I will leave the label alone. Now, if the label has started to peel in anyway or is not perfectly straight like it would be while it was brand new, then yes.. the label is coming off!

 

[DDNatureLover]

I don't usually peel the labels off of jars and such. However, I have done so in the past, and I've noticed that I tend to do things like this when I'm more anxious than usual. I did it a lot when I was a teen, as well as other related types of things like biting my nails/cuticles, chewing on pen caps, etc. It seems I can usually manage these types of symptoms, but they emerge when my stress level gets too high, which is one reason I try to pay attention to symptoms. I agree, part of it is to keep the hands busy. I also have a nervous habit of biting my lip and running my hand through my hair or twisting my hair.

 

[Turdburger]

I have this to a crazy level. I need to peel off the labels of every medicine bottle, every water bottle, and even stickers that are affixed to letters. At work my desk comes with a pull-out tray for the keyboard. It is covered in a protective material. I peeled it off entirely and now my tray is bare wood. It's hard to say what the compulsion satisfies, except that things aren't "right" until the labels are peeled off.

 

[djordjem87]

If this is also OCD then I have everything concerning this disorder. I have this habit of peeling off every label and especially from beer bottles. I caught myself lying about it , I would peel something off and when asked why did I do it I would just say it was already starting to peel off so I just decided to make the process faster. Also, the smartphone protection foil, I had several smartphones and I would always take it off. I just say something like it was already starting to come off somehow and it's better to just go with it.

 

[Aidan]

I guess you could say I find it very "a-peal-ing" .