Anxiety making you flush.

[8crismon]

Have you ever so stressed out by a personal trigger that your face gets really warm? I just learned that this is a thing and am wondering if anyone else has experienced this phenomenon.

 

[DaisyRose]

I sometimes did before meditation. My face usually gets red when I’m concentrating really hard on a task now.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Have you ever so stressed out by a personal trigger that your face gets really warm? I just learned that this is a thing and am wondering if anyone else has experienced this phenomenon.

Face warm, full body sweat, difficulty pronouncing speech properly, shaking.

 

[Judge]

Yes...a real problem to me at one point in my life. Happening as a result of social anxiety, usually in interacting with strangers. Eventually got help for it through a doctor prescribing me beta-blocker meds.

 

[Levitat0r]

Have you ever so stressed out by a personal trigger that your face gets really warm? I just learned that this is a thing and am wondering if anyone else has experienced this phenomenon.

Yeah, the tolerance that people have for high-end crooks oppressing the vulnerable. Might be time to move your Web hosting to a civilized jurisdiction.

 

[MildredHubble]

I got this when my anxiety was through the roof. I think it was related to masking. The anxiety kinda threw me off my routine and it felt like I had no idea how long to maintain eye contact for example. I'd feel like maybe I'd held eye contact for too little time, or too much. Then I'd feel like I'd made the other person feel awkward then I'd begin to blush, then I'd get anxious about that. This caused me to blush more causing more anxiety, then more blushing. It was like a feedback loop.

I've been prescribed beta blockers recently for anxiety, so actually it would be pretty cool if they help control this blushing thing like @Judge said

 

[Rodafina]

I think flushing when feeling certain intense emotions is very typical human behavior.

https://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-disorders/symptoms/blushing-turning-red/

When we’re anxious, the body activates the stress response (fight or flight response).A part of the stress response changes includes causing the body to shunt blood around in the body so that more blood can be sent to parts of the body vital for survival, which includes the head, brain, and extremities. The body shunts blood around by constricting and dilating blood vessels.

When blood is shunted to the head, blood vessels open to let more blood in, which can cause the skin to look red as more blood nears the surface of the skin. Looking flushed is a common indication of an active stress response triggered by being anxious.

 

[Misty Avich]

Not from anxiety, but from shock or being insulted, embarrassed or envious.

 

[Mr. Stevens]

If embarrassed or overwhelmed, my cheeks and ears will turn red. It's normal--people just like to make fun of it. They have a weak sense of security, sometimes

 

[Misery]

Face warm, full body sweat, difficulty pronouncing speech properly, shaking.

Yeah, same here. It's definitely more than just blushing or whatever in my case.

All of those things, and other stuff... all of my sensory triggers go off at once, my throat dries out (or at least feels that it does), everything hurts more...

And there's other things too, that arent so much "feel bad" but just "looks really odd to people". Like if I've hit that point of extreme agitation, I need to sit down, but I cant sit on a chair or something because that somehow makes it worse, I need to sit on the floor. I always end up on the floor when agitated.

If I get REALLY agitated my voice locks up, which... well, I'll say, being down on the floor and reduced to just gestures and arm waving doesnt help any situation at all.

I've come to realize somewhat recently that this all is part of why I have so much trouble bringing up difficult topics with family and such, because when I do, all of this happens. It's an atrocious experience.

 

[chincey_james]

Absolutely. Redness and tightening of my cheeks. I hate it. I find it tends to happen when multiple people are looking at me and waiting for me to speak. Or when I've been asked an unexpectedly personal question.

 

[-Matt-]

Yes and it's normal; however, propanolol (beta-blocker) seems to help me break the "I'm anxious, now my body is reacting, now I'm anxious because my body is reacting" cycle.

 

[Misery]

the "I'm anxious, now my body is reacting, now I'm anxious because my body is reacting" cycle.

Oh geez, I hadnt even really thought about this part. But that's exactly what happens.

Get anxious, sensory overload occurs. Creating more sensory problems. Get anxious about new sensory problems. And so on. Hate it, so much.

 

[8crismon]

Oh geez, I hadnt even really thought about this part. But that's exactly what happens.

Get anxious, sensory overload occurs. Creating more sensory problems. Get anxious about new sensory problems. And so on. Hate it, so much.

That right there; but the cause is intrusive thoughts as a trigger. Of which makes the cycle even more fun.

 

[Levitat0r]

I got this when my anxiety was through the roof. I think it was related to masking. The anxiety kinda threw me off my routine and it felt like I had no idea how long to maintain eye contact for example. I'd feel like maybe I'd held eye contact for too little time, or too much. Then I'd feel like I'd made the other person feel awkward then I'd begin to blush, then I'd get anxious about that. This caused me to blush more causing more anxiety, then more blushing. It was like a feedback loop.

I've been prescribed beta blockers recently for anxiety, so actually it would be pretty cool if they help control this blushing thing like @Judge said

I don't bother attempting to compensate for eye contact, because I assume that the entire point of it is that it doesn't work if it's not natural. But by the same token, I was just contemplating experimenting with it just to see what happens. Just like people tell me I look angry in my pictures, I have a strong intuition it's going to elicit "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" reactions, which I got a lot of in school, now that I think about it.

 

[Levitat0r]

I don't bother attempting to compensate for eye contact, because I assume that the entire point of it is that it doesn't work if it's not natural. But by the same token, I was just contemplating experimenting with it just to see what happens. Just like people tell me I look angry in my pictures, I have a strong intuition it's going to elicit "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" reactions, which I got a lot of in school, now that I think about it.

I'm expecting that if you have to force it, people will interpret it as some sort of challenge, especially if you are a dude.

 

[Kisa the tea]

Not just my face. When I have a panic attack my whole body gets hot. This is why I always feel that panic attacks are even worse in the summertime due to added heat making me flare up.