ad2009 wrote:
i was wondering about people who look at themselves in the mirror alot and how to overcome that problem.
Yes, I do this sometimes. Although it is not a persistent problem for me, it is a nagging issue that I could do without.
I will randomly catch myself staring into the bathroom mirror, mostly mimicking facial expressions and postures that I'd thought about or seen. In other instances, time seems to vanish, and I will drift into a trance-like state. Then I will snap out of it, realize what I had been doing, and move on. The mirror also has a complicit role in my trichotillomania, which is compulsive hair-pulling; a response to anxiety and stress that I am usually barely aware of.
To avert these problems, I try to stay very task-oriented. If I have to stop what I'm doing to use the restroom, I try to mentally keep working on whatever it is so that I can get in, get out and not get caught in the mirror. If I am more in the "present-moment" (which I most often am), then I have a tendency to fall into the aforementioned behaviors.
I had not really thought about this before... thanks for posting this topic!
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Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Mimosoideae/Acacia
07 Jan 2009, 11:05 am
