Nervous habits

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If I'm alone I start walking up and down.
If I'm in company a just speak more than usual, and that means that I speak really A LOT.

 

As a seasoned #sorcerers veteran, I can only nod

 

I tend to fidle with my rings... I do it when nevous, or when talking with people and being bored.... That, and playing with any other objects I hacve close at hand.

 

I chew on my tongue. odd huh.

 

I play with items that are close to me, if none I'm looking around, moving my chair, tapping my feet... I'm very annoying when I'm nervous

 

I usually end up damaging myself
I usually do strange things with my hands when I'm nervous, like bending my fingers backwards or dislocating my thumb. I usually sit hunched over. I sometimes chew plastic things as well. Usually I burn myself on things or hit myself or something though.

 

If I'm sitting, I swing my foot back and forth. If I'm standing, I bounce from foot to foot. And I bite my nails.

 

I really don't get that nervous anymore. Ever since I started debating 4 years ago, all four years of which I've been third speaker (totally impromptu speaking), nervousness loses its novelty. Now I just get impatient and sometimes tap my foot. However, I do get an adrenaline rush and I can't stop my hands from shaking.

Otherwise, I just keep cool on the outside and wait. It helps.

 

I yawn. Sometimes in exams I can barely see the page in front of me for all the yawning.

 

I usually just crack my knuckles or any other part of my body but there are times when I'll fiddle with things or tap my fingers on any available surface.

 

I have a painful habit of clawing up my skin when I'm nervous.

 

how do you manage that dread?

my habits are chewing my nails, tapping my foot(not like an old woman, just like sitting down i keep moving my heel up an down) and finally cracking my knuckles

 

I unconciously become manic, and appear to take nothing seriously. I bounce around the place like a circus clown on speed. If I was placed in front of a firing squad I would probably incessantly try to extract every ounce of dark humour out of the situation, right up until FIRE!

It is probably a self defence mechanism, and it is so effective that the only way that I am able to realise that I am nervous is if I see the adrenaline triggered tremors in my hands. They work a bit like the tremors that the Captain in Saving Private Ryan had, you aren't afraid, but your subconcious switches on all the 'fight or flight' engines anyway.

I don't mind, manic feels sooo good, but it is an annoying habit for those caught in the same boat as a lunatic that is suggesting that swimming with sharks can't be that much different from swimming with dolphins...


Edit: Hymn To The Fallen, the instrumental theme from Saving Private Ryan is on the radio, freaky.

[ August 18, 2003, 09:23: Message edited by: Gollem ]

 

When I'm impatient and nervous I get the habit of rapidly tipping with my foot on the ground, that's called "wibbeln" around here ...

 

I'm a little like Gollem when I get nervous except that I ususally also start talking and babbling nonstop. Like if say I was doing something "dangerous" (something to make me nervous) that was going to last several hours without really heigtening then I'd just be talking constantly and making jokes a lot even though I'm not that funny and I NEVER make jokes usually. But if it was something that was heigtening and not long term then I'd babble but I'd get faster and higher pitched the more nervous/upset I got until no one could understand me at all. Asjdlksajdkadjwldakjsk!!! Exactly.