Red Face: Social Anxiety with Russell Norris

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

From childhood, Russell experienced intense social anxiety to the point that, on more than one occasion, he discontinued certain extracurricular activities and socially normal gatherings to avoid it. Red Face is a narrative of his struggles with this social anxiety, the accompanying idiopathic craniofacial erythema (uncontrollable blushing), and the many successful and unsuccessful coping mechanisms he has attempted over the years.

In today's episode, Russell shares his experience with social anxiety, which started at a young age and continued into adulthood. He will share what he does to overcome the often debilitating fear.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to the podcast. I am joined today with Russell Doris. He is a writer,
0:20.5	copywriter. He has written a book called Redface. It is a book on social anxiety and idiopathic
0:29.9	craniofacial erythema and he writes it for a popular audience to help them potentially overcome
0:41.7	similar issues and he tells a story. And so having recently done an episode on social anxiety with
0:48.3	Dr. Cummings, I thought I would bring one and hear his story and kind of have a just a dialogue
0:56.6	on what that was like growing up and what's helped him overcome this. So welcome to the podcast.
1:01.7	Hi David, nice to meet you and thanks for having me on the show. So you're hailing from England,
1:07.5	from south of London or southern London. Yes, that's right. I live in London on the edge of London,
1:15.4	great to London. And I've pretty much lived in London my whole life, although I spent the first
1:22.2	few years of my life in Oklahoma in the US, I believe it or not, because my mom's American, so
1:27.2	I'm half American, spent my summers over there because it incursons a lot. But yeah, I was
1:32.4	spent most of my life growing up in London, England and that's where I live and work now.
1:38.5	So yeah, why don't you kind of like take us back to where you first remember having performance
1:46.3	anxiety or anxiety or anxiety about blushing, like how old were you when that started?
1:54.7	Yeah, so the big thing for me is the blushing. So I think it all began with blushing. I've asked
2:01.0	myself this question several times like, did being socially anxious make me blush or did the
2:07.0	fact that I started blushing make me socially anxious? I've never really been able to answer that
2:11.2	chicken and egg question. But for me, it was around the age of probably 12 or 13 years old
2:17.8	when puberty began to hit. That's the first time I remember blushing and disliking the way it
2:26.5	made me felt and disliking the way other people reacted to it. I guess it first started happening
2:34.2	in school. It's most closely tied in my memory to being in classrooms or being around kids
2:41.3	as kids generally are or a bit unforgiving and cruel when someone in the group looks different
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