Quirky Habits?

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I have this terrible habit which I can't quit. It's terrible but yet I waste time on it. I split my split ends. Help!!! What are your bad and yet so entertaining habits?

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Specializes in critical care: trauma/oncology/burns.

Okay my bad habit.....I will read or do anything, ANYTHING else but the homework I should be doing. Example: If I have a paper due in a week, instead of starting the paper I will do...housework, wash the kitchen walls, suddenly decide I need to walk 10 miles to get bananas OR I will read every other chapter but the one chapter that is the assigned homework.

Sigh....Does this count?

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I have the very bad habit of sucking my two front teeth. This relieves anxiety and feels good. I have sucked my teeth so much that I am developing a small gap between the two teeth.

I also have quirky behavior with numbers. For example, I do not like to set the alarm on an even numbered time, such as 6:00am. I'll set it for 5:59 or 6:01, but never at 6:00am.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

I found out that my bad habit has a name. (I learned it in nursing school, but the name escapes me now). I pick the cuticle of my right thumb with my fingers on the same hand. I've done it for so long that I don't have a cuticle to speak of on my thumb.

I hated finding out it had a name, though. I prefer to think of it as slightly weird than a "disorder". :D

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Specializes in home health, dialysis, others.

I'm a nail-biter. Except when I get the fake ones, then I don't bite them. I have gone quite a while without biting them, but here I am, 58 years old, and still biting!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.
I have the very bad habit of sucking my two front teeth. This relieves anxiety and feels good. I have sucked my teeth so much that I am developing a small gap between the two teeth.

I will not be able to hear the song "Suck My Kiss" by RHCP without thinking of you! ;)

BTW, don't look up the lyrics. Only the title will remind me of you, so it's all good.

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LOL, I can only set it for even numbers!

I have the very bad habit of sucking my two front teeth. This relieves anxiety and feels good. I have sucked my teeth so much that I am developing a small gap between the two teeth.

I also have quirky behavior with numbers. For example, I do not like to set the alarm on an even numbered time, such as 6:00am. I'll set it for 5:59 or 6:01, but never at 6:00am.

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Hair-twirler here. And I stir my coffee 8 times, no more no less.:rolleyes:

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I am a habitual picker.

No acne spot, unwanted hair or loose piece of skin is safe around me.

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I have the very bad habit of sucking my two front teeth. This relieves anxiety and feels good. I have sucked my teeth so much that I am developing a small gap between the two teeth.

I also have quirky behavior with numbers. For example, I do not like to set the alarm on an even numbered time, such as 6:00am. I'll set it for 5:59 or 6:01, but never at 6:00am.

I have to set my clock for a time that "feels right". Strange, I know. . .

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Specializes in cardiac, oncology.

My bad habit, smoking, I quit 200 days ago today!! :yeah:

Now I just eat, but it is better than smoking for now.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Slightly anal retentive here about my lines....monitor lines, IV lines....all have to be untangled before I can start my shift.

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