Just a thought

[Octoman12]

I've suffered from SA my whole life pretty much. Well, maybe not. I've always been shy with people I don't know too well, but I think most people are that way, just I was a bit more so than most. It never stopped me having friends until about 4 years ago. Something happened which made me blush quite badly. From then on I blushed all the time, and the fear of blushing has kept me in my room for the most of my free time. I don't socialize anymore. If I do, I have to be drunk, or just one on one with a friend, maybe two if they're really close friends. Groups of people I can't do.

Like most people with SA, I have been looking for an answer, and I think I might be on to something with this.

I feel as though I could get over the blushing if I could somehow make it my aim to blush. Now this is too much for my small brain to comprehend. How could I want to blush. The reason I don't go out, the reason I stay away from groups at work, all of it, is because I'm afraid of going red. How can I now want to do this? One might think, just go out and try to embarrass yourself. In doing this, you may or may not blush, but the fact of the matter is YOU WILL NOT WANT TO BLUSH. And this is where I'm finding it difficult...... How do you want to blush?

Thoughts anyone?

 

[w*n*c*a*m]

I've suffered from SA my whole life pretty much. Well, maybe not. I've always been shy with people I don't know too well, but I think most people are that way, just I was a bit more so than most. It never stopped me having friends until about 4 years ago. Something happened which made me blush quite badly. From then on I blushed all the time, and the fear of blushing has kept me in my room for the most of my free time. I don't socialize anymore. If I do, I have to be drunk, or just one on one with a friend, maybe two if they're really close friends. Groups of people I can't do.

Like most people with SA, I have been looking for an answer, and I think I might be on to something with this.

I feel as though I could get over the blushing if I could somehow make it my aim to blush. Now this is too much for my small brain to comprehend. How could I want to blush. The reason I don't go out, the reason I stay away from groups at work, all of it, is because I'm afraid of going red. How can I now want to do this? One might think, just go out and try to embarrass yourself. In doing this, you may or may not blush, but the fact of the matter is YOU WILL NOT WANT TO BLUSH. And this is where I'm finding it difficult...... How do you want to blush?

Thoughts anyone?

It's not how you want to blush. It's about not minding if you blush or not. Because if you put much effort in not wanting to blush or wanting to blush,,,, you'll still feel conscious which would make you blush more. I blush a lot. At first it was a big deal but I read somewhere that if you keep on thinking of blushing, then it would be more obvious. But yeah, it's hard not to mind it at all. Maybe I just got used to blushing. I dunno...

 

[Octoman12]

I get the impression that it doesn't bother you.. Blushing is humiliating if it happens over something it shouldn't. I have no control over what it is I blush over. I have no way of telling in advanced. It could be anything.