i just wish i had a cure for this! i have to say that the comments i have just read have made me both laugh hysterically (the wrong paint) and also cry at the same time, which almost made me blush and yes i am on my own! I am just so relieved to find out that i am clearly not alone, but that does not solve the problem which is really starting to get me down. I pretty much blush in the same situations as everyone has mentioned, to the point where it is affecting both my social and work life. I hate going out shopping etc.. (although i love clothes)in case i bump into someone i know as i seem to blush for no reason. I am just surprised to see them that's all, nothing else to it. I feel a physical change in my body and i used to get heart palpatations too, but now that i am on drugs for this, this rarely happens. i think the 2 are linked but have never met or read about anyone with the same symptoms so i'm not sure. i think one of the sadest things about this is that i have never spoken to anyone about it - my partner of 9 years doesn't even know how i feel, although he has commented on me going red from time to time. I tend to change my behaviour rapidly or leave the room somehow before my redness becomes too noticeable but this is not always possible and sometimes, especially on a one to one, you just have to go through the embarrassment of letting that person see you change colour and then spend the rest of the day feeling mortified.
The thing is, i can be a fairly confident person, but my blushing seems to hinder me being the self that i know i can be. I think people who blush like us just react in the extreme to the feeling of self consciousness. I notice when other people are clearly embarrassed and have become self conscious, they don't blush, therefore it must be something in our make up / genes that causes this.
I am glad to hear that the guy who said he was successful in the corporate world has not given up on his ambitions, as i myself have found that although quite succesful for my age, blushing is becoming a barrier to me feeling i can progress any further. i have always worked hard from an early age and God only knows how i would cope if i was in the public eye and snapped by the photographers, i would look like a tomato in all the photos!! i am not going to give up trying different ways of overcoming this but i do have little hope at the moment. i am going to try and take it one situation at a time. Good luck fellow blushers!