So what’s Blushing?

Facial Blushing is the reaction triggered by our potential humiliation and embarrassment, it can involve social anxiety feelings, such as fear of being the center of attention and self-consciousness.

This is a normal body response, the tiny blood vessels which carry blood to our skin allow more blood to flow beneath the surface of the skin and the face, ears, neck and, occasionally, the upper chest, becomes red in color.

The “Red-Face” problem tends to get worse at first as people start to get embarrassed about their embarrassment, creating a sort of vicious circle.

Blushing can cause severe embarrassment and frustration to anyone who experiences it regularly and it can often lead to social phobia or other anxiety disorders.

Blushing could be a sign of some deep-rooted problem in your mind, which does not let you keep your most private feelings inside.

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Are facial blushing and social anxiety related?

It is known that facial blushing is deeply correlated to social anxiety though it’s not necessary that social anxiety sufferers to blush and the people who blush to suffer from social anxiety.

Studies mention that social anxiety may be a cause behind blushing. The symptoms are related to the loss of confidence, anxiety, inferiority excessive sweating, embarrassment and the avoidance of eye contact in a group.  Ultimately those factors lower the sufferer’s morale.

There are numerous relations between facial blushing and social anxiety.

Firstly there is an acute sensation of embarrassment which is caused by the fear of blushing and which stops the sufferer from getting involved with people. However the problem aggravates and makes the person even more nervous, causing confidence lost over time.

Social anxiety causes feelings of worthlessness and discomfort in the minds of the sufferers and in most cases this leads to frustration or even worse, to depression, so an immediate treatment is very important.

There are methods to get rid of social anxiety and facial blushing and it is necessary to follow some indications and treatments. The persons in cause should try to think positive, interact with many people and probably the most important, try not to underestimate themselves. These actions may stop the excessive facial blushing.

Other methods mention social anxiety disorder treatments, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), surgeries, medication and Botox injection.

One should follow the treatment prescribed by the doctor but before that it is extremely important to know things about facial blushing and social anxiety in order to follow the treatment correctly.

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Everyone has emotions and those emotions are expressed on our faces by many means among which we can mention blushing. This phenomenon indicates strong emotions like anxiety, anger, excitement and embarrassment but if it occurs too often and without any evident cause it might be that the person in cause suffers from red blushing disorder and needs to treat it before it causes many troubles and other disorders.

This affection can be associated with affections like rosacea, carcinoid syndrome, fever and menopause or with the consumption of alcohol, spicy foods.

Doctors say that the reason for blushing is the expansion of blood vessels that allow a larger quantity of blood to pass through and if it happens many times a day, it indicates a disorder.

The encountered feeling while blushing is a combination of heat with small shivers while the sufferers’ face turns red. Some people can experience blushing on other parts of the body like neck and head.

The consideration of symptoms can be the proper way someone realizes that he has a problem and the list of symptoms includes things like humiliation, extra excitement, strong embarrassment, heat sensation and reduced confidence level. If one identifies some of those symptoms it means that a treatment is required.

How to treat red blushing

There are many thing that cause red blushing and many of them were mentioned above but if Social Anxiety Disorder is the main cause, doctors advise the usage of CBT(Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) because it helps the sufferer to think and act positively in order to stand in front of the society by gaining confidence.

Moreover there are many supporting medications for this affection so, the person in cause must consult a specialist in order to avoid complications that may occur.

General knowledge about the excessive facial blushing

Excessive facial blushing is named in medical terms Idiopathic Craniofacial Erythema and can be described as a severe uncontrollable facial blushing, mainly when one has verbal contact with other people or during time spent with others.

Others notice the sufferer’s face when he gets to talk with other people and the redness of his face can easily express his embarassement and his anxiety and that makes the person in cause to avoid building relationships and even being social.

Symptoms

• Extreme blushing without any reason
• Sweating on your body, palms and under arms…combined with excessive heat in your body but mainly on your face.
• Humiliation and shame
• A minimum amount of time spent with friends and other people.
• The person in cause avoids having eye contact.

Excessive blushing is a bit shameful but is quite severe and cannot be treated immediately.

There are cases of blushing without any reason even in simple conversations which is not a good sign at all and makes the person in cause to feel very embarrassed and that can easily lead to social phobia.

The excessive fear of someone noticing their fears makes the sufferers to avoid being social. If the affection is not treated, it can cause many failures in the professional and personal life of the sufferer so the beginning of an immediate treatment is strongly recommended.

Treatment

With all the science we have today it is easy to understand that there are a lot of treatments for this affection. Still the treatment that has shown the best results and also the most popular is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) this treatment helping people to eliminate their extra embarssement and anxiety.

When extra treatment is required, ETS (Endoscopic Transthoractic Sympathicotomy) can help a lot but only if the person in cause has serious problems and the previous attempts in solving this affection failed.