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Cure For Blushing
For some people facial blushing is simply one of those small annoyances when faced in the odd embarrassing social situation, for others however an episode of excessive facial blushing can happen frequently and cause a lot more than just a slight embarrassing feeling.
If you suffer from excessive facial blushing the most important thing to remember is that here is plenty of help out there and many cures for blushing. One of the most popular cures for blushing is CBT or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
Cognitive behavioural therapy is used by many clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and counsellors. CBT mainly focuses on changing, understanding and managing your though patterns. CBT has been effective to treat many issues however where it seems to have it most impact is on depression and anxiety and social anxiety suffers.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is not the be all and end all of all therapy regarding social anxiety and excessive facial blushing, like all therapies some work better for some people and others work better for other people. Finding a therapist/counsellor you like, trust and feel comfortable can be a major element to making CBT work as a cure for blushing.
One of the reasons why Cognitive Behaviour Therapy works is that someone who is depressed and/or anxious usually thinks in a negative way. For example in situations which could end positively or negatively, people who experience depression and/or anxiety are more likely to think the situation will end negatively. CBT helps replace negative thought patterns and habits with more positive ones and also reinforce positive actions.
