reerikavenger
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My name's Mike and I'm a 25 year old full-time writer/musician. I like to analyze human interactions and I like to write witty and sardonic fiction/narrative and melodic acoustic/electric music. I used to be a top-notch blusher. I was rare meat most of the time, purple cheeks. I tried everything. I used to make myself pass out by constricting the blood flow to my head. It made me feel better for a few hours except that I ended up having to go to neurologists etc. for 9 months afterwards. I have taken medical creams, drugs, placebos, and everything short of surgery to alleviate the problem. Things are much better now, not 100%, but I am very confident in life most of the time.
My goal for being in this forum is that I would just like to help, vent, and listen to other people who have this problem. I believe that life is way too short to be condemned by something you had no part in creating and regardless of how much I like to be at odds with popular opinion, natural communion with other people is fundamental in a human's life. I have a lot of social phobias that I overcome by becoming proficient at something. For me, I know that I am a great musician and a very creative writer. I believe creativity is limitless, and that helps me overcome my phobias by helping me better place myself in the ecosystem.
Basically, I have assessed my condition for about 13 years and I have come up with things that don't work, things that might work and things that definitely do work. I know how people don't understand and they think that we make a mountain out of mole-hill. It's hard to explain blushing to people who never experience it. But it is very real and its psychological impact can be devastating. I think more attention should be given in the medical/scientific/physcological world to our phobias because I think our phobias, which are invisible to most people, truly affect our interactions with the world more than anything else.
My goal for being in this forum is that I would just like to help, vent, and listen to other people who have this problem. I believe that life is way too short to be condemned by something you had no part in creating and regardless of how much I like to be at odds with popular opinion, natural communion with other people is fundamental in a human's life. I have a lot of social phobias that I overcome by becoming proficient at something. For me, I know that I am a great musician and a very creative writer. I believe creativity is limitless, and that helps me overcome my phobias by helping me better place myself in the ecosystem.
Basically, I have assessed my condition for about 13 years and I have come up with things that don't work, things that might work and things that definitely do work. I know how people don't understand and they think that we make a mountain out of mole-hill. It's hard to explain blushing to people who never experience it. But it is very real and its psychological impact can be devastating. I think more attention should be given in the medical/scientific/physcological world to our phobias because I think our phobias, which are invisible to most people, truly affect our interactions with the world more than anything else.
