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[-] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 19 points 7 months ago

Just… being lazy. Like, the clothes are washed and dried, but they stay in the basket and never get put up. I put chores off a lot. There’s a certain anxiety I have about stuff, like I’m worried it’ll take forever or take a lot of effort. It never does, and it always works out better, but that anxiety stops me every time.

[-] CopernicusQwark@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

As a teenager I ironically started saying "howdy" as a greeting. It's now decades later and I still can't break the habit.

I am in no way from the US, let alone parts of it that would say howdy on a regular basis.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

You should merge your thing with the guy repeating stuff to his wife's chagrin.

Howdy, howdy, howdy

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago
[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I was certain it was the shark, bwahahaha!

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[-] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago

I've started saying everything multiple times like Johnny Two-Times in Goodfellas and it's driving my wife nuts nuts nuts.

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

It can't be harmless, but I bang my teeth together in delicate and particular ways to simulate playing drums and I'd really like to not do that no mo.

[-] End0fLine@startrek.website 9 points 7 months ago

I’ve been attempting to stop biting my nails for decades at this point.

[-] Luvon@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

I managed to break this particular habit. A friend of mine commented about how she looks at people’s fingers nails… I stopped overnight. Got an actual set of files and keep them shaped and buffed. A little oil and they are nice and shiny without any polish too

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Have you tried nail polish? I had a nail biting phase which I successfully replaced with a nail polish phase.

[-] End0fLine@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

I’ve had it suggested but haven’t tried it. Are you talking about color polish, or what people have tried suggesting to me, polish that tastes awful?

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I do colour polish because I like colours, but frankly I've not encountered any good-tasting nail polish :P

[-] aDogCalledSpot@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

I was able to stop by teaching myself classical guitar. Suddenly there was a reason to have nails and it was easy to stop. I guess it's similar to the other guy having nail polish. Find a reason for yourself to have fingernails instead of simply trying to stop biting them.

[-] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago

I crack literally every knuckle in my fingers. I crack my wrists, elbows, neck (that one actually has caused issues), and can even crack my toes and knees sometimes.

I really really want to stop, but as soon as I feel that pressure in my joints, I just have to pop it.

[-] TimTheEnchanter@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

I’m just really bad at forming habits. I know what I need to do, I can come up with routines or ways to do it, maybe even do it for a couple of days. But I just can’t seem to ever get habits I want to form to last for any length of time.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

Every task requires my full activation energy to achieve, I can't get into and hold habits where I'm already primed for it. It sucks.

[-] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Counting my toe flicks. I would flick my big toe and index toe up and down, alternating between left foot and right foot, while counting how many times I have flipped. I don't do it for a long time, mostly up until 20 to 40 counts. May be it's some kind of coping mechanism that I used to do when I was young but it somehow stucked.

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