Every time I catch somebody looking at me, I blush. Whenever i see certain people, I blush. If the room is quiet, and then all of a sudden somebody speaks, I blush. I blush for no reason at all. I started doing this only a month ago. It's really embarrassing. It's making my eye-contact even worse. I'm afraid some people have already noticed that i'm having a problem. What if they judge me? What if they accuse me of having a crush on somebody? Note i don't like anyone right now. in fact, some of these people i blush at are actually people i find to be jerks. they will probably tease me if i keep it up. if i take a stand, they will only accuse me more.
i have found one temporary solution to this problem: hitting myself. Nobody says anything when i do it. Apparently, it works! But it certainly won't be a permanent solution. I don't want to find myself all bruised up next week, just because i was trying to overcome blushing.
What would be the best way to get around blushing and prevent it in the future?
extraordinary. I have no advice, but I can imagine how frustrated you must feel. Blushing is so utterly involuntary. I do know that blushing decreases as you get older .... but you probably don't want to wait that long.
eh, i think i just need to get used to everyone. i know it will go away eventually.
Probably the best thing you can do - is to decide it doesn't matter - accept that you are probably going to blush and learn to live with it.
Sorry - not a nice or perhaps helpful answer - but maybe by stressing less about blushing - this might in itself help you to feel less threatened. Blushing is a stress response, and by trying to eliminate or decrease feelings of stress, the blushing may not then be so intense.
I hope this makes some sense.
If you blush dont be shy. Pretend you are feeling too warm. Look normal, despite your red cheeks
I hit myself whenever my body starts throbbing - it happens quite frequently, I have bad nerves. People look like I'm crazy, but it's just to numb the pain. In fact, I just got it in my hand, drat!
maybe you can overly makeup your cheeks in a rediculously red shade of blush so when you do blush nobody can tell the difference.
Or say you have sun burn. Lol, I have ginger hair and very pale skin so I get sunburn really easily
yaaahh, my problem's going away! i knew it was just one of these crazy phases i always go though. whatever caused it--i have no idea what, but boy, my mind gets so random and out of control sometimes.
Don't forget to take deep breaths!
It was terrible when I was young but seems to have abated with the passing of very many years.
But I still have the very worst of blushings problem, namely, if Iam sitting in a group of people say at a lecture or in a church congreagation, and you know you have somebody right behind you, probably looking at the back of your head in boredom, then the person giving the talk starts mentioning something really bad like somethings been stolen, or somebodies been molesting children in the park, I will immediatly worry that if I go red, everybody will falsely assume its me, consequently I do go red, and now Iam thinking, oh no, everybodies now looking at me because Ive gone red and they will belive Iam guilty, which makes me go so red I feel my skin will burst and the heat is intense and then of course the person talking is indeed now looking at me because Ive turned such a severe colour so I go even redder!
I sometimes get a tingly sort of feeling in my cheeks at random. I find slapping myself works for this (never hard, though - separate from head banging for me).