Embarrassment

I’m seeing someone at the moment about my embarrassment problem, honestly I’m worried all the time that I’ll say something dumb or potentially embarrassing so much so that I avoid speaking in most situations just to avoid the potential embarrassment. She’s taught me to identify what is worrying me (eg answering a question wrong in class), find reasons for that being true (eg it’s happened before and everyone laughed at me) then find reasons for it not being true (eg I might get it right or most people probably aren’t even listening to me enough to realise my mistake) then identify any unhelpful thinking habits (eg predicting I know what will happen, or thinking I know what people are thinking about me or making the problem bigger than it actually is) This has really helped me get more in control of my anxiety and embarrassment.

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