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?
athena55, BSN, RN 987 Posts Specializes in critical care: trauma/oncology/burns. Has 38 years experience. Jun 7, 2010 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?
TheCommuter, BSN, RN 226 Articles; 27,608 Posts Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych. Has 17 years experience. Jun 7, 2010 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.
dudette10, MSN, RN 1 Article; 3,530 Posts Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics. Has 12 years experience. Jun 7, 2010 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".
mamamerlee, LPN 949 Posts Specializes in home health, dialysis, others. Has 35 years experience. Jun 7, 2010 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!
dudette10, MSN, RN 1 Article; 3,530 Posts Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics. Has 12 years experience. Jun 7, 2010 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.
EDRN-2010 288 Posts Jun 7, 2010 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.
DroogieRN 304 Posts Has 2 years experience. Jun 7, 2010 Hair-twirler here. And I stir my coffee 8 times, no more no less.
RNperdiem, RN 4,581 Posts Has 14 years experience. Jun 7, 2010 I am a habitual picker. No acne spot, unwanted hair or loose piece of skin is safe around me.
jesshopper12 41 Posts Jun 7, 2010 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. . .
esrun00 110 Posts Specializes in cardiac, oncology. Has 22 years experience. Jun 7, 2010 My bad habit, smoking, I quit 200 days ago today!! Now I just eat, but it is better than smoking for now.
tvccrn, ASN, RN 1 Article; 762 Posts Specializes in Critical Care. Has 20 years experience. Jun 8, 2010 Slightly anal retentive here about my lines....monitor lines, IV lines....all have to be untangled before I can start my shift.
