Really bad habit

[mazza]

I am posting this in the vain hope that I am SHAMED into stopping it...

I chew the edges of my nails - any little rough bit of skin, off it comes even to the point of bleeding and using plasters! :o

8-X

It's so disgusting, but I have done it for as long as I can remember :sad: .

It only really occurred to me the other day that it is so hideous and actually exquisitely painful...so why on earth do I do it???!

Yuk!!!! :blush:

And that makes me wonder if anyone else has bad habits too (so that I don't feel so alone in this :lol: )

Confess all, if you dare to! :D

[hollygolightly]

It is a release for you: doing something that you have control over in your own life - and your own pain. With everything that is going on at the moment, it's no surprise that you are thinking more about what you're doing.

Hmm, my habit's too bad...

:blink: :lol:

[vernon]

Think everyone has there little "peccadillos" mazza, your not alone :)

i used to pick my nails when i was young, i tried biting once or twice but it was too difficult :P ... at least i seem to have gotten bored of doing it for some time ;)

Sometimes you do something because its something to do, my brothers fiancee works at a nursery, and said there is a child there who pulls her hair out, as a comfort thing, lots of people have lots of thing they might do,

can you believe some ppl even pick their nose,

In-cred-eeb-bla!! (parle avec un accent francais...vive la france!)

i think i might be over-tired :P

/me wanders off in search of nails clippers and mumbles "that reminds me..."

[christina]

Originally posted by hollygolightly@Apr 27 2004, 1:04 AM
Hmm, my habit's too bad...

:blink:** :lol:
Now that you have our complete attention ... please confess.

I'm a smoker which must rank somewhat higher up the scale of bad habits than nail chewing.
There was a little snippit on TV a couple of days back showing our last surviving veteran of World War One . I recall he was 103 years old and they showed him still mobile and puffing on a pipe !!

[Blue Cow]

Originally posted by mazza@Apr 27 2004, 12:39 AM
And that makes me wonder if anyone else has bad habits too (so that I don't feel so alone in this :lol: )


Yeah right - like I'd admit them all here!! :lol: :lol:

They are all far too bad!! (And there are probably loads!!)

I have a really bad habit of speaking my mind though (that's before I've allowed my brain to engage!) :lol:

[Annabel]

:sad: alas i too pick at my nails and i wish i would stop as i like to have elegant nicely painted fingernails, and the effect is spoiled by my manky cuticles!

i also pick my spots (and any one elses who will let me!)...there you go ...how gross is that and i cant believe i actually fessed up to it! :blush::blush: :unsure: :ph34r:

[freakyfun]

Ick . what a nice discussion

Perhaps I should take up a pipe to join in? (always fancied leaning on a spade in the garden smoking a pipe after digging the vegetable patch - brings back memories of my Grandad - however, I know what smoking does to your lungs and the effect it has on life expectancy so its just a thought :( )

FF

[christina]

Considering the (mental) state of most of our neighbours this seems to be a very conservative tally... a couple of smokers and a couple of nail chewers.

[Annabel]

:D - methinks people are not willing to divulge, Christina!!!! :lol: I mean who wants to admit that they pick their bogies or chew their toenails... :wow: :lol:

[christina]

I can understand the general reluctance Annabel ... my imagination was running a bit wild wondering if weird neighbours stirred up some equally weird bad habits..nail bitting. bogies and smoking all seem a bit tame somehow.

[Annabel]

:rolleyes:
you do have something there christina....when I had an NFH, I developed a horrible habit of looking out of my window everytime i heard a noise or saw a KFH running about...i wasted so much of my time obsessing about what they were getting up to and fretting about my car etc etc. :sad:

it was so draining and depressing.... :(

[hollygolightly]

Originally posted by Annabel@Apr 28 2004, 9:31 AM
who wants to admit that they pick their bogies or chew

Oooh, have a look at this! (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_903083.html?menu=news.quirkies.badtaste) 8-X :lol:

[Matthew]

Ho hum.......:eat: :sicky:

[Annabel]

8-X 8-X 8-X

Grosssss!!!!!!! :sicky:

[hollygolightly]

Go on, it's good for you! ;) :D

[Beth]

i was told that in biology, very good for veggies like me.....not that I do it!!! dirty!!

I do however... :blush: bite around my nails :blush: and my fingers get sore, a habit I am trying really hard to break, I am rubbing cream into my cuticles and I use avon stong results paint on nail conditioner, which does actually help my nails to grow!

then I watch a sad film and my fingers are destroyed again :( :blush:

[mazza]

:wow: Blimey, I wasn't taught anything like that at school :hihi:

I don't know whether I can feel another confession coming on now... :rolleyes: :whistle:

Back to the fingers...I now have a further three very sore since I first posted...shame isn't enough to kick this habit then :sad:

PS Moby - take a look - nothing visual there, verrry interesting reading though :lol: