2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Frequent blinking is a fairly frequent, but rarely voiced symptom in anxiety disorders. Frequent blinking is important not to be confused with a nervous tic. A nervous tic is a fast, stereotypical (similar-looking) involuntary movement (that is, you have no control over it).
Frequent blinking is a monitored, mild discomfort that often intensifies during contact with other people, reflecting attempts to contain the emotion of anxiety.
The problem with this symptom is that you can control it, but controlling it is tiring, stressful, and ultimately annoying. This, combined with the initial anxiety (which is hidden behind the onset of such a symptom) leads to a variegated range of internal unpleasant sensations.
What to do
Step 1. Regularly retelling your emotions during the day
It is convenient to start correcting such a symptom with psychoprophylaxis. Namely - from an emotional letter. When you take a pen, paper, 5-10-15 minutes of time and purely mechanically describe your experiences that happened to you during the day.
Step 2. Living emotions in the moment
Living emotions, as opposed to mechanical retelling, means that you openly and consistently try to communicate your feelings to others. You communicate both your reactive desires and your proactive desires. That is, you communicate internal messages that come to your head purely mechanically, and you are already consciously looking for the reasons for your emotions at the level of your desires.
Step 3. Living aggression
Separately, it should be emphasized that it is important for you to experience aggression. Do not swear, do not offend the people around you, namely, convey to them your discontent, irritation, indignation, anger. This need is associated with the element of social anxiety contained in the symptom. It is the living of aggression that increases your stability, strength, self-confidence during communication and thereby affects the symptom.
Step 4. Spontaneity
Any techniques of mental gymnastics will be more than relevant and useful with frequent blinking, since, among other things, such a symptom reflects the presence of sticking in the process of maintaining anxiety. The goal of spontaneity is to increase your ability to shift your attention (primarily from one emotion to another).
Step 5. Emotional Shields
It is also useful to train all possible and available to you emotional shields - your ability to positively overestimate the statements of others, reflect such statements, deny others, insist on your opinion. Such shields generally reduce the degree of social anxiety and reduce the intensity of the initial symptom.
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