AgentGrimstone,

I use “just” a lot

commanderbalok,

I make a “guitar playing” face when I do complicated things. Work is now complicated and I find myself making this face for hours at work. Now I’m lying in bed posting and constantly having to remind myself every few seconds to not make that face. I fucking hate it.

cardboardchris,
@cardboardchris@lemmings.world avatar

laughing a stupid little laugh after I’m done talking. probably comes off as nervous and awkward. I hate it.

Mango,

Breathing.

LemmyKnowsBest,

You’re struggling to break that habit?

Mango,

Yes.

sntx,

Forgetting time, space and everything else while I write code.

Not that I’ve almost set the kitchen on fire before by forgetting the pizza in the oven while writing “this one little function”.

residentmarchant,

When I’m baking bread, I have to set timers for myself to make sure it doesn’t overproof or burn in the oven.

The feeling is wild. I sit down, set a timer for 1-2 hrs, start work, and with the snap of a finger I’m torn out of my zone by my alarm sound.

MigratingtoLemmy,

I’m curious as to what you program/work in. I’m the same way when I’m invested into a configuration/template (I work with the cloud)

sntx,

It doesn’t really matter for me what it is, as long as it is a project I’m working on xD

I think at the time I was migrating a discord bot I to use PostgreSQL - or setting up auto backups for it.

DelightfulBreeze,

Late night snacking

Waking up feeling slightly sick has been the norm for me for the past 5+ years

TheUsualButBlaBlaBla,

Sounds awful. Do you know what causes it? Otherwise this might not be in your control. Worth seeing a holistic therapist to find the root cause and hopefully feel better.

Necronomicommunist,

I regularly eat right before bed and I don’t have this, in fact if I don’t do it I wake up really hungry. It’s still a bad habit on my part. Maybe something else at work?

Underwaterbob,

I love caffeine, but it messes me up bad. Absolutely debilitating headaches. I’ll go six months or something without, and then relapse until I get woken up by a jackhammer in my skull and give it up again. Sigh. I don’t understand the studies that actually suggest it’s good for you.

lseif,

that doesnt seem harmless.

Lemminary,

It sounds like a rare reaction. Some people are allergic to water but you wouldn’t say, “that doesn’t sound harmless.”

Valmond,

Maybe the diuretic nature (u pee more) gives you a headache. Next relapse, drink a glass of water or three.

Underwaterbob,

I thought that too. It doesn’t seem to help. At least not quick enough.

RBWells,

I have occasionally tried giving up caffeine, and once the initial withdrawal headache passed, all that happened for me was more migraines (even after several months without it) and about 3 lb of weight increase. Daily caffeine does help me to prevent headaches.

Underwaterbob,

Funny how caffeine for me causes headaches, and for you prevents them. I used to get bad migraines (the throwing-up-painful kind) when I was young. I wonder if that has something to do with it.

RBWells,

Yeah, it is so strange to me too, I expected it (quitting) to help but it does the opposite. I do get the migraines still, just fewer if I do daily pattern of caffeine. Relaxing is my biggest trigger now, it was periods before, those were the absolute worst.

Underwaterbob,

It’s weird to ask, but are you young? I’ve seen it suggested that migraines tend to recede in those 35+. I was very, very grateful for them going away as I got older. As long as I stay away from the caffeine, the worst headaches I get these days are just a mild annoyance. Especially compared to the I-wanna-kill-myself ones I got when I was in high school.

RBWells,

No, I am in my 50s now. Migraines started at 18, were worst in my 30s, so painful that I didn’t understand when the doctors asked to rate the pain, so bad that when I went through natural childbirth my only comment was “well, it wasn’t as bad as a migraine, at least.”. And yes almost always with vomiting. Turned out it was birth control pills making them more intense but I didn’t know that until I stopped them. Hormonal IUD did not have that effect, nor does menopausal hormone treatment. Now I do still get them, much less often and they do vary in severity now, not straight to 11 on a scale of 10.

I will also say they are well managed with the sumatriptan injection, 90% of the time or better it works and doesn’t even feel dopey, just fixes it. For 20 years now, it’s worked. The problem was that when it didn’t work it sometimes was a 3 day thing and I couldn’t drink at all, even a sip of water caused vomiting. This bad has only happened like 6 times total, you used to be able to go to the doctor and get pumped full of something like heroin, it didn’t touch the pain really but put me so far away from it and I’d sleep and wake up without the headache. But now, because it didn’t really work, and there’s such a backlash against opiates, they won’t - even though this is a once every 4-5 years thing and nothing else works either. Now nobody but emergency room will touch it and all they do is IV liquids so you don’t die from dehydration, and something in it to stop the puking. But it leaves the headache there.

Underwaterbob,

Oh crud, your case sounds far worse than mine. Glad you have them somewhat under control.

If I suggested my migraines were worse than childbirth to my wife, she’d kill me. Our child was, uhh, very reluctant to joint the world.

Lemminary,

Whoa, I find it weird that people get withdrawal symptoms. I drink too much of it every day and I’ve never had so much a slight headache from quitting cold-turkey.

lwuy9v5,

Learning a new hobby right after getting partway through another one

RizzRustbolt,

Listening to Brain Cheney.

z00s,

Turns out Lemmy is pretty wholesome according to this thread :P

Empricorn,

To be fair, they specifically asked for harmless habits!

Mine is I can’t resist being contrary/devil’s advocate…

victorz,

Someone has to be!

Dioz,

For some reason I can’t seem to stop shaking a bottle of water first before taking a sip out of it

Kiwi_Girl,
@Kiwi_Girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I stopped that by taking the cap off while I pick it up.

guacupado,

Biting my nails. Been doing it for as long as I can remember. I think I stopped once but went back to it as soon as I realized I stopped.

AceFuzzLord,

I have the same problem, except I’ll sometimes end up chewing them so much that one finger will bleed in-between the finger and nail on the side. In fact, I’m pretty sure I have dried blood under one of my fingernails.

Turbofish,

I used be a an absolute fiend for biting my nails. What fixed it was buying a little Swiss army knife nail set. It’s got a wee little nail clippers and file. It fulfilled the need for nervous movement.

moody,

Friend of mine solved this by using a sort of nail polish that tastes super bitter. Got her to keep her fingers out of her mouth.

2xsaiko,
@2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

My parents got me one of those when I was a kid. It didn’t help me at all, back then at least :(

Glad it worked for her though!

thelsim,
@thelsim@sh.itjust.works avatar

Oh I can relate with this. I’ve recently managed to stop (hopefully for good) for the silliest of reasons. I want nice long nails.
I know it sounds silly, but I’ve switched from biting my nails to running my finger tip along one of my nails instead. I admire how nice they feel and it somehow takes the biting impulse away.
One thing I do need to do is an almost daily filing to keep them completely smooth. I know that I’ll resume biting if I find an irregularity or a jagged edge.

commanderbalok,

This is what helped me. Getting them smooth and keeping them smooth. Carried a file around for a couple weeks, but the habit broke very quickly and I never went back

Honytawk,

There is invisible nail polish that works well.

It makes nails taste horrible, and you will be reminded even if you bite your nails absent-mindedly.

Should give it a try if you really want to stop.

sbv,

Staying up late. It’s not harmless.

JimmyBigSausage,

I used to do that. Now, I loooove getting in my bed and cutting out the light and it’s “night night”!

TheUsualButBlaBlaBla,

Same. I will potter around until 5 or 6 am and then hate myself as I have a meeting in the morning that I will either need to drag myself out of bed for or sleep until lunchtime and lose half the productive day.

slazer2au,

I tend to start sentences with “So,” in emails and that just doesn’t seem professional.

Karlos_Cantana,
@Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz avatar

R̶e̶d̶d̶i̶t̶ Lemmy

Blamemeta,

Same

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