Getting over a mental block?

[purpleninja]

Hey, guys!! So I have had this WICKED mental block for what seems like forever now, and with allergy season starting up, it's getting harder and harder every day to hold this back and all, so I'd like to get over my mental block. Does anyone have some concrete tips on not clamming up whenever I have to do that in public? I can't even say the word, ok, so I'm not expecting this to be easy, just possible.

Does anyone else get super embarrassed, as well? I feel like sneezing in public is for me as, say, leaked nudes are for others. Is that just me?

Anyone, I want this mental block gone lol!!

Thanks,

Koda

[Melody]

Does anyone else get super embarrassed, as well? I feel like sneezing in public is for me as, say, leaked nudes are for others. Is that just me?

This. This exactly. Thank you for putting it into words Sorry, I also have a really strong mental block and I have no idea how to get over one, nor do I personally want to lol. But best of luck to you!

[Sawyer]

Haha, it definitely is like leaking nudes. It's something very intimate and sexual and it feels super uncomfortable and inappropriate to do it in front of anyone else, even if I'm the only one around who sees it that way.

Honestly, I'm 22 and just getting over my mental block. Until maybe last year, I hadn't sneezed in front of anyone since I was old enough to figure out how to prevent it (maybe 6 or 7). I still can't sneeze if I'm in the company of someone I know, but if I'm out by myself in public (which I am, for most of every day) then it's really not so hard! I started by stifling silently in public, and a year later I could sneeze normally as long as no one was physically close enough to me to comment. In these situations, it almost feels like I'm "alone", which makes the process less tense for me. I don't care if a stranger sees me sneeze! One day I think I'll be able to sneeze in front of my partner, and maybe even around friends too!

It's definitely something that I couldn't have started working on until recently, though. Living at home with my parents made the idea of sneezing around anyone totally unfathomable. Now that I live on my own, it's a lot easier for me to feel "in the zone" when it comes to sneezing, if that makes any sense. Like, more independent and sexually liberated. It also helps that I've grown up and started caring less about the impressions I make in general.

[sneezingbeauty]

i totally get what you mean. no one has seen or heard me sneeze for years now. i actually realised just recently that because i often have long build-ups or false starts when im alone, im terrified of people seeing me get ready to sneeze in case it doesnt happen, i feel really under pressure lol. so as soon as i feel myself needing to sneeze, i just hold it back. i really love the idea of people seeing me sneeze and them blessing me, but i just cant get past building up to it if that makes any sense ahah

[atchoum]

Just a word of reassurance. It's perfectly possible to get over a mental block, and my experience was much the same as Sen Beret. For at least ten years I wasn't able to sneeze in front of anyone. Then in my mid twenties I stopped worrying about it and it came back, very gradually. First it was sneezing in the street, then with strangers, then at work and after a few years it was gone; So just relax and you'll find you will be right.