Weired Habit...

What bad habits do you have? - Most of the people have their own habits, some of them like to suck their fingers, some people like to shack their leg when they sit down, some like to bite their finger nails and there are many more that can tell one by one. What is your habit?
@yspmyl (3435)
Malaysia
November 17, 2010 8:32pm CST
I have got a friend that I have knew her for years and yesterday she told me that she have got this weird habit where she will need to hold and rub a person hand to sleep, or else she will not able to sleep. I pity her husband because he have to let someone to hold and rub his hand while sleeping. I know many people have some habit, like biting finger nail, shaking leg and so on. So what is your habit and is it a weired habit?
10 responses
• Indonesia
18 Nov 10
My habit is scratch my noose, I don't know why I doing that, sometimes my noose itch and I scratch it. I don't know that's bad habit or not.
• Indonesia
18 Nov 10
I forgot, my habit is inserting a pen or pencil in my hand to my mouth and sucking it.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
18 Nov 10
Scratching nose is not too bad, I do see many people who like to dig their nose as if their nose is a gold mine.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
18 Nov 10
Hi yspmyl, I have a bunch of those weird habits and if you say they are bad... I would accept. I scratch my nose, shake my legs and even play with the pencil or pen when I hold them. Also play with my hair which are now longer and would grow longer. All this when I am tense or pressurized with work. Shaking my legs is when I am listening to some song or music and having nothing to do... I think I should start out for finding psychological reasons for these Cheers, theSids.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
18 Nov 10
Hi thesids, Many of us have some habit that we do it without conscious. Shaking legs is one of the habit that many people have. I ever sit beside a person who have this habit and I can feel that the table was shaking as well.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
18 Nov 10
Thank God... I do not shake that well... So I think you would find me a quieter guy
@eurekafemme (5874)
• Philippines
18 Nov 10
It is not weird at all. :) I used to tap my kids feet gently so that they will doze off easily. Without doing it, it is so difficult to put them to sleep no matter how late it is. I applied such practice on them because my mom used to do it to me when I was a kid and it sure rocked me off to sleep. But I got over it when I got older. However, sometimes, it relaxes me when i shake my leg while lying on bed. :)
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
19 Nov 10
I think that is not too bad if you pat them to sleep, my both sons like me to pat them at the backside to sleep too. But that later became a habit for them that they can't sleep if we are not there to pat them. I think if a habit not become too aggressive, it will still be fine. But it become too obvious that affect others that is something not too good. Just like some people that I have meet before that they like to shake their legs when sitting on the chair. I have once sat beside this friend that have this habit, he was shaking his legs so hard that I can feel the chair vibrate.
• Philippines
18 Nov 10
hello yspmyl! i have a weird habit too which sometimes ire my partner since he can't sleep because of it, lol. I find that touching his skin lightly from here and there, makes me sleepy and gets me to sleep ultimately. i don't know, this had been the case since i was a kid but i used to touch my own skin then, usually my earlobes or my neck, where it's soft. I have a sister too who can't sleep without thumbsucking while drilling a hole in her pillow, lol. She feels asleep just doing that. Kind of weird but well, if its gotta make me and her sleep, who cares? lol
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
18 Nov 10
I never heard of any one of my friends is having the habit like you before. I think that kind of habit is quite rare. I too used to have a habit when I am going to sleep, I like to put my forehead stick to the wall and to feel the coldness from the wall. It last for few years and later I manage to get rid of the bad habit.
@kodukodu84 (1567)
• Malaysia
18 Nov 10
Well one bad habit that I have been dying to quit from is picking up my lips skin. It caused my lips to bleed and painful all the time. I'm really happy that I have finally got away from it since 3 or so weeks ago. It is a terrible bad habit and sometimes I found myself still picking my lips while trying to sleep. I hated it so much hehe! Have a nice day
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
18 Nov 10
Congratulation to you to get rid of your bad habit. Many peoples tried very hard to get rid of their bad habit but they just can't. Especially those habit that they having it since very young age.
@camposkat (306)
18 Nov 10
I used to bite my fingernails when I was in gradeschool but when I got told off big time by my parents, I did eventually stop doing it. My weird habit lately is that I pick on the sides of my fingernails, you know those lose skin on the sides? I pick on them and try to remove those lose edges of my skin by either side of my fingernails when I'm idle. I just do it automatically and my fiance hates it. He tells me off everytime I unconsciously do it. I try not to do it but I sometimes can't help it.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
19 Nov 10
That will be painful if you were to pick the sides of your fingernails, at the moment you pick it, it will still not that painful but it will became painful after that. When you soak your hand in the water, you will feel the pain. I think you can prevent it by wearing a glove or something to cover up your fingers for sometime until you having the conscious not to do it anymore.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
18 Nov 10
hi yspmyl oh yes I get nervous or stressed even when typing and I find myself chewing on a lock of hair. gross and I hate it but I find I do it unconsciously but when my husband was alive he would remind me by asking does that taste oood? then I would not do it for a long time but now i am a widow I find I am back to old habits. lol lol lol.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
18 Nov 10
Hi Hatley, That is something funny, so by doing that you will be able to know whether it is time to wash your hair or not. Just kidding. I too used to pull my eye browns when I am reading a book during my school time, I am lucky that it doesn't become bold but that make it darker..
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
18 Nov 10
Hi yspmyl, I have a bunch of those weird habits and if you say they are bad... I would accept. I scratch my nose, shake my legs and even play with the pencil or pen when I hold them. Also play with my hair which are now longer and would grow longer. All this when I am tense or pressurized with work. Shaking my legs is when I am listening to some song or music and having nothing to do... I think I should start out for finding psychological reasons for these Cheers, theSids.
@fanzejian (372)
• China
18 Nov 10
I don't know whether it is a bad habit that I usually soliloquize when I am in the thinking situation .coz I will response quickly to the questions and will get the methods to reslove those trouble.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
18 Nov 10
I think many people will soliloquize when they are thinking of something and especially they are panic. But I think that will actually help to release the stress and tension.
• United States
18 Nov 10
It's embarrassing, but I still have the habit of sucking my thumb. That's something that most people get rid of in childhood, but for me, for some reason, it just didn't go away. It makes me feel comfort and when I"m stressed it relaxes me. It's weird, definitely, but I don't do it 24/7, or in public. It's just a bad habit that makes me feel better. I'm just glad I'm lucky enough not to have bad teeth from it! haha
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
18 Nov 10
That is something funny, so far I have not seen any of my friends having that habit, and I think if they have, I will not know because they will be like you to do it behind everybody.