I am a female senior in high school with pale skin. I am a shy person and have been ever since I was little. I have known my whole life that my face turns red in certain situations and was always told it was normal. I used to just ignore it.
Sophomore year I had a problem with social anxiety and did therapy for a little while, but it didn't help. High school was when I really realized how often my face actually turns red. There have been times where I will be talking to a teacher and they will pause and say, "I'm not trying to make you feel embarrassed" which makes my face turn even redder. The problem is sometimes I'm not even embarrassed. Whenever I talk at all in a classroom whether to a student or a teacher my face turns red. The worse thing is people will point it out to me and be like, "why is your face red?". I used to have a friend (mean friend) that found it amusing to see my face turn red so she would purposely try to embarrass in the middle of class and it would always work. I have noticed that teachers purposely do not call or pick on me because they think it embarrasses me. When it happens my face starts to heat up, my palms get sweaty, my eyes water a little, and sometimes it gives me a little bit of a headache after.
This isn't something that happens once in a while, this happens more times than I can count daily. So I decided to do some research and saw that a lot of other people also have the problem and take medication.
I just want to know if this seems like a real problem or if I am just overreacting, but I know that if it stopped my life would be a lot better.
Sophomore year I had a problem with social anxiety and did therapy for a little while, but it didn't help. High school was when I really realized how often my face actually turns red. There have been times where I will be talking to a teacher and they will pause and say, "I'm not trying to make you feel embarrassed" which makes my face turn even redder. The problem is sometimes I'm not even embarrassed. Whenever I talk at all in a classroom whether to a student or a teacher my face turns red. The worse thing is people will point it out to me and be like, "why is your face red?". I used to have a friend (mean friend) that found it amusing to see my face turn red so she would purposely try to embarrass in the middle of class and it would always work. I have noticed that teachers purposely do not call or pick on me because they think it embarrasses me. When it happens my face starts to heat up, my palms get sweaty, my eyes water a little, and sometimes it gives me a little bit of a headache after.
This isn't something that happens once in a while, this happens more times than I can count daily. So I decided to do some research and saw that a lot of other people also have the problem and take medication.
I just want to know if this seems like a real problem or if I am just overreacting, but I know that if it stopped my life would be a lot better.