This is the habits discussion thread.
Whether it be stories about getting over habits, building them, your worst habits, or your more amusing ones.
I'll start off.
I have the habit of sleeping in my clothing after a boring day. Usually meaning I didn't go anywhere and just forget that I should change out of my clothes for when I go to bed.
Also have the habit of scratching my nose when I am waiting around for something or someone. It can get bad when my nose turns red and I scratch it because it is genuinely itchy.
Been looking to kick the smoking habit ( Addiction :P ) and have found myself terrible with the timing. With my urges to quit at the highest when the day was just not right. Two times it happened during the same days that I either got laid off or was fired from my jobs. Another day my car broke down in the middle of the road on me. These weren't the passing "I'll try to quit" days. I had gotten rid of my lighter, current pack of smokes, and taken other measures to keep the urge to smoke off my back for the day.
Now lets hear about you folks. :) Go.
I happen to have a really bad habit of picking at myself when I am bored or nervous whether it be at sores, scars, pimples or black-heads. and I do it constantly to the point where I have giant holes and scars along my back/upper arms. And it has gotten to the point where now I do with without even knowing what I am doing at times and rip my skin open.
So that's my bad habit, Who's next?
mmm I bite my finger nails just out of the really bad habit that I get extremely nervous... I managed to go a whole month 1/2 without doing so... >.> Buuut then my nails got too long (even after clipping them) and I said screw it >.< I hate nails... >.>
I also have post nasal drips, sooo I get flem and crap down my throat.... soooo in order to relieve this I have to sniffle loudly... and then to get that out I have like... hack it all out and use a napkin to get rid of the flem ball.... @.@ Gross I know.. but it's only cause it has two places... a napkin or my stomach... and I would rather the napkin @.@ Yuuuppp.. gross eh? >.>
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I've got a very nasty habit of zoning out during important conversations.
"Hey Alex we're gonna do another garage show and you're going to be singing by the way here's the set li- blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh"
30 seconds later I look up and go "What?"
I run from things that I don't see an immediately solution to. Or when shit gets too real or intense. Love, hate, pain, death, pretty much anything like that. Run from it.
Oddly enough, I'm a psych major, and intend to go into clinical. I am going to be dealing with people doing this same stuff, and telling the how to fix it. I doubt I'll ever "fix" it for myself though.
Aside from that, I don't really have too many physical habits. I fidget with things, a lot. Necklace, bracelets, earrings, clothing, just my hands. People tend to assume it's a nervous habit, but it's really not. It's just something I do without even realizing it. My hands like to be active, I guess.
I run my hands through my hair when I'm just sitting around or I'll crack my knuckles (terrible habit, don't do it I'm 22 and have arthritis already but I still can't stop.)
Smoking was easy to get rid of, I find that smoking is more than addiction, Fen, it's totally a habit as well and since I didn't really smoke habitually I didn't have a hard time quitting.
And to fix the finger fidgeting thing the chainmail's been helping for when I'm sitting around the house doing nothing, less useful in class and during tests and stuff. v.v
I bite my nails. Not out of nervousness, but this weird thing in my mind that my nails must be even. However, I find that nail clippers don't do it right.
I also have to move things that are uneven when I notice them. My mother has tried to stop me from doing that, but it never stuck. It is only things I end up noticing though. It's not like I look for them. Ah, slight OCD.
Last habit that isn't annoying to anyone, including me, but is still a habit, is that I tap the edges of my fingers with my thumb when I am thinking about something. No real reason to it. I just do it.
Mito, do you mean that you like cycle through your fingers, touching each finger-tip to the tip of your thumb, and back, and then again? Wash, rinse, repeat?
Pretty much. I go from my pinkie to my pointer finger, then jump back to my pinkie and do it again.
I do the same thing. Strange...
I bite my nails too...especially when I'm bored.
It's not really a bad habit, but I also tend to only drink bottled water. And when I do drink it...I always twist the cap back and forth between my thumb and the fingers that are holding it while i drink.
I bite my nails when I watch movies or TV.
Or if I have a lip ring in, I play with it when i'm nervous.
This jackal has something of an oral fixation. I chew all kinds of things like, compulsively. I ruin pen caps, turn toothpicks to splinters, and all kinds of random things become my chew toys. o-o
Strangely enough, I never bite my nails until one becomes noticeably longer or uneven or something.
I talk waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to fast when I get nervous, seriously it got to a point where one of my friends had to tell me to "Chill the hell out Boomhauer" So ya...I have a few others like....ummmm....o.o
I tear the living Hell out of my nails, fingers, cheeks and tongue...It's a sequence, really. First I'll chew my fingernails until it hurts, then the skin on my fingertips. Right before I know I'm going to draw blood I go to the insides of my cheeks, then to the sides of my tongue. After all that I still try to find something to gnaw on, so I'll find a toothpick I've stored from my many trips to Waffle House or some gum or something and go to town.
Another big habit I have is that I pace when I'm on the phone. Never could figure out why. I also twitch...Especially in my legs.
To go with Cheeky, I pop everything I can. Knuckles, knees, hips, neck. Don't matter as long as I can get it aligned again. x.x;
I think there's a large population of those who pace when on the telephone. It's commonly depicted in movies too. I wager it has something to do with our need to animate our point. Talking with your hands doesn't work as well when the person can't see you, so the mind amplifies that. I'm probably way off base... It's just a theory. XD
Chewing yourself to hell doesn't sound fun... You should find something to counter that desire. One of my friends used to chew her nails down until they hurt. Her boyfriend was like "fuck it, that's enough" and he would make her wear fake nails all of the time. They broke up and she chews them down again because she's a bad learner. XD But for that time while she was wearing the fake nails, they deterred her from chewing her nails. Not exactly a change of behavior in her case, but if implemented correctly, a variation could be.