Blushing phobia/social phobia

@LouiseBT

Hey there, hopefully you are doing well. There's a few things I would like to point out;

Hi all, I know this seems silly (There's no such issue thats silly or small. What you are going through is important, and it definetly deserves to be treated like it) but I do have a stupid phobia of blushing & have done for many years, I blush so easily & it makes me feel so stupid, (One thing I'm noticing here is that there's shame and beating yourself up for not behaving in a certain you would like. I can understand how tough it can when it comes to blushing (i have at times), but attaching "feeling stupid" tends to affect how you feel as a person) the fear causes me to have social anxiety (I can completly understand how you feel, does it make you avoid situations?) & I had a panic attack (Sorry to hear that, you must had felt intense fear and panic when it came to this. Panic attacks can be quite scary and overwhelming, hopefully you were able to feel better soon after) last week at work whilst in the middle of filling a patients tooth (I'm a dental nurse) which was triggered because there was another person in the room & I felt like I was being watched & made me feel so self conscious (When you felt this other person watched you, did it make you feel like you were in danger? or that you needed to perform in a certain way to avoid being punished? or something else?) & ended up looking like a tomato! I hate it (I could see why you would feel like this, specially when its something you feel ashamed of) & makes me feel like such an idiot, (you are not that all, its just at the moment something is triggering the fear of being watched and the blushing, so its something that has not been adressed completly) I just wish I could stop the hot flushing for no reason! X

Me too, I did it at work too because I just feel. It takes an extremelly powerful mind to overcome such physical reflexes of the body...i've seen it in others too and the triggers ale multiple...