Try This at Home, Kids!

Try this at home, kids:
Take a deep breath.
Hold it for a week.
Record observations if still alive.

What happens when you try stopping an unconscious habit for a week? One tends to lose their shit, that's what.

They say that stopping will let you in on why you do it in the first place; you can't know why you need it unless you stop. What they don't say is that the noise in your head will get a lot louder, that you won't be able to hear anything else, and that other habits will play understudy, contaminating your supposedly purely scientific experiment in abstinence.

The other kicker is that while you're conducting said experiment and losing your shit, you can't actually tell anyone you're climbing the walls because you're supposed to be done with this crap. You feel like screaming when your family says "you're doing so well!" because what they really mean is "we haven't had to commit you in years!" So you see, you can't tell them diddly squat. So you don't.