Strange Habits

venukumar i feel like iam having one strange habit.i always sleep just four hours.if i sleep more than that my mind wont work,and i have to wait till next day to get that rhythum...

Being that I'm diagnosed as strongly Obsessive Compulsive, I have several little habits that I notice on a day-to-day basis. One is that I am constantly cleaning under my nails. I hate having super-short nails, because I don't like how it feels when I press buttons or touch things, but having longer nails means that I am constantly scraping away whatever collects under my nails, to the point that I interrupt tasks and activities. Another habit is that I touch things, say things, and arrange things in fours. This is a classic OCD symptom, so it may not count under your heading of 'habits', but I thought it might make for an interesting comment. One more habit I have is that everything I own must be properly closed. Any and all drawers, cupboards, doors, shutters, bags, boxes, tupperware containers, etc. This may not be exactly a habit within my own home, but it becomes a problem when I'm in public, or at other people's houses, and I been closing things for them XD

I thought you want to make sure that everything is okay in all those rooms. When eating I have to have either a napkin or tissue near me cause I need to clean my right fingers almost every spoonful of food, even though I use spoon and fork to eat, I still feel my fingers are dirty and oily from the foods. So when it was a standing party, I had my hands full with plate, spoon or fork and napkin or tissue.

Well, when I wake up I can not and will not talk to anyone unless I have my coffee first. about an hour later I am basically fine and can deal with the day.

I have several strange habits or actions but as Jen, above, I'm OCD. I like to have things in order, my order, so it probably dosen't matter to anyone else. When I stand in front of the mirror fixing my hair and I need to turn around and see the back of it I have to turn in the same direction each time. If I don't it just feels extremely uncomfortable to me. I then have to start all over and turn in the right direction. Same thing in the shower, if I turn to rinse my hair I have to do it in the certain way that feels right to me. If I go through a revolving door or in an elevator I have to touch the wall My hand has to be on the wall the whole time or I feel very anxious. I think that has something to do with the OCD also, or it may just be a weird habit, I don't know. I have to use more than one plate to eat because I can't let my food touch. Some things are okay to touch but mostly not. I need to use extra smaller plates to put the different foods on. I also have a real problem with seeing other people letting the food touch on their plates. I can usually control myself and not say anything but sometimes I just have to blurt out something like OH NO, DON'T LET THAT TOUCH!. It can be pretty embarrassing sometimes. I smell of my food before I take a bite, too. I think that's just a habit. If it smells bad, I don't want to eat it. So I think that's just a habit that developed in childhood to keep from eating something nasty It's hard to tell what might just be a weird habit or what is the OCD.

As a newbie, I'm so happy to finally post my first response to the topic that caught my eyes while I was browsing at today's top discussions :) I always ask myself why I just can't live in this world without a mosquito net on my feet :) This thing really plays a big role in my life. It gives a calming feeling whenever I'm mad and it relaxes me whenever I'm stressed! I've had this habit ever since I was a kid, and now that I'm married, it's even more weird coz I married a man with the same strange habit too :) haha! And here's the strangest of them all, my two-year-old baby girl is also finding great pleasure and a feeling of security whenever she places her little feet on our magic mosquito net :)

The only strange habit I can think of is when I go to my usual grocery store there is an aisle I like to park in and I will not park in any other aisle. Even if it means a longer walk. Don't know why I do this.. I just do. Also when my husband drives I make him park in that aisle too.

I always make myself clean at least once a day eg. taking bath, washing hands and etc. I like myself to be clean and smell good.

wow as fast as it hits me to go, id have an accident. i can barely make it around the corner from my room. when i drove i always had to be smoking while driving, but no matter how cold it was i couldnt stand the smoke in that small area, so i left my window open a bit on the far side. everyone thought that was strange but it did turn out good one day when i locked the keys in the car. easier to get them out. im trying to think of something now i do but cant

For me, it's a couple of things. And both is with regards the TV. I just don't go turning off the TV at night to go to sleep. I put the sleep timer on, so I don't get to see it turn off. Of course I also use the TV as an alarm, so when I wake up the TV is already on. Also, I do the same when I leave a room. I don't like turning it off so I use the sleep timer too. Even when I leave the house, the TV would still be on. And will just turn off well after I'm gone.

I think habits, when they are strange like I like to keep curling my hair but just some of it is a form of fulfilling something empty in us. For example I begun it in a time I was feeling insecure, I didn't stop cause now feels really good, just like a hobby, a mania. When I am thinking in a very concentrated way I do it.