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15 Embarrassing Things to Do in Public to Overcome Social Anxiety
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Everyone experiences embarrassment from time to time. People with social anxiety disorder (SAD), however, are often harder on themselves about these moments. This is because they more strongly believe that their social blunders will lead to criticism and rejection. 1
While thinking of embarrassing things to do in public might seem like the last thing you would want to do if you live with SAD, it just might be the best way to start overcoming your fears. This strategy can serve as a type of exposure that can help you confront your fears and practice facing social challenges.
This article explores some of the embarrassing things you can do in public to help confront your anxiety. It also covers why this approach can be helpful.
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Doing silly or embarrassing things in public could be considered a type of behavioral experiment, which is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). 2 This type of therapy is often done in a more structured way under the guidance of a therapist. However, doing behavioral experiments such as exposing yourself to the things that make you anxious or nervous can also be a useful self-help strategy.
The key when it comes to social anxiety is to choose something to do that would normally embarrass you or that you would try to avoid. When you fear something, your first instinct is often to avoid it. The problem is that this approach often ends up making you feel even more fearful in the future. Unlike your typical habit of avoidance , your goal with this task is to become embarrassed or to have others judge you.
Intentionally doing embarrassing things in public is an example of what is known as social mishap exposure. People who have social anxiety tend to overestimate the social costs associated with making mistakes in front of other people. 3
By doing embarrassing things in public without relying on avoidance coping , people are able to experience the actual consequences of social mishaps. In doing so, they can see that the impact is actually much less than they feared, which will ultimately help them feel less fearful of social situations in the future.
Social mishap exposure differs from traditional exposures practices in CBT because the aim is to intentionally cause people to experience the outcome they have been trying to avoid. Where exposure in CBT strives to help people see that the things they fear are unlikely to happen, social mishap exposure is designed to show that even if the worst happens, it isn't as scary or consequential as people feared. 3
The key is to start small and build up your ability to do these types of silly things. Do the easier ones first and the harder ones later. Ideally, these silly things make you feel a little or a lot embarrassed but don't hurt you or anyone else.
Doing embarrassing things in public is a type of social mishap exposure. This technique can help people develop a more realistic understanding of what happens if they make social mistakes, which can eventually reduce feelings of social anxiety.
Everyone makes embarrassing mistakes from time to time. If you are looking for ways to practice social mishap exposure, explore some of these embarrassing things to do in public for ideas.
You can often try these things on your own, but you may find it helpful to work with a therapist to overcome your social anxiety. A therapist can combine exposure to social mishaps with other effective techniques such as cognitive restructuring and psychoeducation to learn more about social anxiety.
You can also contemplate doing things that challenge your social anxiety in that they draw attention to you. These behaviors are designed to make you the center of attention. You will soon realize, however, that people notice you (and the mistakes you make) much less than you think.
One benefit of this approach is that you can tailor it to your specific fears. For example, if you fear embarrassing yourself at a social event, looking for ways to make yourself the center of attention while you are at a party can be a great way to confront this fear.
Notice how little others really pay attention to what you do.
The goal of doing embarrassing things in public is not to terrify yourself. While you don't want to engage in avoidance behaviors, there are things that you can do to help manage your feelings of anxiety while still practicing this social mishap exposure.
Also, remind yourself that everyone gets embarrassed once in a while. By practicing embarrassing yourself in public, you'll be less likely to experience fear and anxiety in the future.
It is also important to make sure that this type of exposure activity does not end up making anxiety worse. Doing it under the guidance of a therapist and incorporating relaxation techniques such as deep breathing can help minimize that risk.
There are a number of strategies you can use to cope with feelings of embarrassment. Start slow, remember that most people won't even notice, and use deep breathing to calm your anxiety.
The goal of these activities is to prove to yourself that you can make mistakes without it being a catastrophe. People with social anxiety view social situations as having strict rules of conduct, so it is important for you to break those down. Now go make some mistakes!
If you are finding it difficult to manage your feelings of anxiety or are experiencing significant distress, talk to your healthcare provider or a mental health professional. They can recommend treatments or medications that can also help you cope with your symptoms.
You can do embarrassing things by choosing where you will embarrass yourself and what you will do. Get in the right frame of mind and remind yourself that practicing is a good way to reduce your social anxiety. Once you embarrass yourself, notice how it probably wasn't as difficult or embarrassing as you expected.
Treatments for social anxiety often involve medication, psychotherapy, or a combination of both. Antidepressants, beta blockers, and benzodiazepines can be helpful for relieving symptoms of anxiety. These are often used alongside therapy, which often involves cognitive behavioral therapy. Specific techniques that are often helpful for social anxiety include exposure, cognitive restructuring, and social skills training.
Exposure therapy is a type of behavioral therapy that is often used to help people deal with fear, phobias, and anxiety. By gradually exposing yourself to the things that you are afraid of, the fear will begin to lessen. Exposure can involve either imagined or real world. By getting experience and practice being exposed to the things that you fear, you will eventually start to feel more comfortable and less fearful.
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Although corporal punishment is seen as an archaic tool by most nations, some places like Saudi Arabia still employ the cruel and unjust method of punishment with such frequency that several days ago, a news headline read: “Indian Maid in Saudi Arabia has hand cut off.” The use of physical punishments to cause pain and disfigurement as opposed to deprivation of liberty is dying out but still has quite a few fans in the darkest portions of the world. Throughout man’s history, we have found the most painful ways to punish one another for perceived and real crimes. Here are some of history’s worst methods of corporal punishment.
Earlier epochs were big on public shaming utilizing devices that punished the individual by humiliating and degrading said person on a societal level. Bilboes, much like shackles for the ankles but made of solid iron, were attached to a post where the offender would be secured with their feet above their head.
Added humiliation to the offender included being barefoot while punished, signifying a lower socio-economic standing. This form of corporal punishment was most popular in England and the American colonies . Later, bilboes would be used in the transportation of slaves across the Atlantic, where the particularly strong slaves would be fastened for the duration of the trip.
In most instances, members of the population that are at the lowest of the totem pole find themselves victim to the worst forms of punishment. Women were forced to endure some of the worst forms of corporal punishment including the Cucking and Ducking stools . Another form of public humiliation, records of the use of the Cucking and Ducking stool go back as far as the 13 th century. They were primarily used against women for back-talking, scolding, or simply displaying a temper that men thought inappropriate.
The stool resembled a see saw, with the offender placed in a chair for all to see – the ducking stool took it a step further with the women then plunged into cold water “in order to cool her immoderate heat.” Later the ducking stool would be used in medieval times to identify witches – a rope would be attached to the accused’s waist and she was thrown into a river or deep pond. If the “witch” floated she was guilty and in correspondence with the devil, however if she sank she was deemed innocent. A lose, lose scenario if we ever heard one.
Another appalling case of corporal punishment against women was the Scold’s Bridle. Similar to the cucking and ducking stool, the bridle was used against English women who were perceived to be rude, nags, or who spread untruths. It was an iron cage, often of great weight; the bridle covered the entire head with a spiked plate or flat tongue of iron to be placed in the mouth to keep offender from speaking or feel a sharp pain.
In order to fully achieve a level of public humiliation , the women would either be lead around town or attached to a post. In the cases where the women would be attached to a post in public square, they would frequently be victim to “painful beatings, besmearing with feces and urine, and serious, sometimes fatal wounding – especially in the breasts and pubes.”
Public humiliation was certainly a theme of the earlier epochs – the pillory was a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands. Used from the 1600s to the early 1800s, the pillory was able to humiliate the offender by holding the head in a tight grasp and thus up to the public gaze.
The public would exacerbate the humiliation by throwing “rotten eggs, filth, and dirt from the streets, which was followed by dead cats, rats” and “ordure from the slaughter-house.” In some cases, communities put offenders in the pillory during times of public market to increase exposure and thus humiliation. Rare cases saw the offenders killed by the objects thrown by the mob, other variations included nailing offenders’ ears to either side of the head hole or cutting them off for additional ridicule.
In order for our list to be complete, the worst sort of corporal punishment, the one resulting in the offender’s inevitable death must be included. While the terms are usually separated, they are not mutually exclusive and in our cases, the pain and torture inflicted leads to the victim’s death. One of the most heinous examples that combine the two is the breaking of the wheel, also known as simply the wheel.
This form of punishment was essentially a torture device that broke the victim’s bones until they were dead. A symbolic form of corporal punishment – the breaking of the wheel had the victim attached to a large wooden wagon wheel with radial spokes and the victim was beaten with a club or iron cudgel , with the gaps in the wheel allowing the limbs to give way and break. The wheel’s circular nature was meant to symbolize eternity, further damaging the victim and their family.
Another form of punishment that sees in many cases the victim suffer in agony before death is impalement. One of the most gruesome methods on our list, impaling a traitor or enemy of the state somehow continued until the 20 th century in the Ottoman Empire. Simply put, impaling is the penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by complete or partial perforation of the torso.
The reason impalement should also be viewed as corporal punishment is the survival time for its victims. Accounts hold that victims have lived up to eight days after being impaled; the social impact of such a statement cannot be overstated. Seeing a man live in agony for eight days would certainly keep us from revolting.
One of the most ancient forms of corporal punishment is bastinado or foot whipping. Evidence of its use has been seen across many cultures and its reference as a punishment is also described in the Bible. During the administration of the punishment, the victim is barefoot and the beating is focused on the arches of the foot but sometimes the heels and balls of the feet can be targeted also.
A cane or a crop is used to beat the victim and in many cultures it takes place in a public venue, continuing the theme of public humiliation. Bastinado was used extensively by the Nazi Regime and is continued to be used by oppressive regimes as a form of torture as it does not leave any physical evidence of a beating.
The most common and known form of corporal punishment is flogging , also called whipping or caning. It’s done across all cultures and also administered to men, women, and even children. The only difference is the instrument of use with some people using sticks, rods, straps, whips, and many other objects.
In severe cases, the backs of the victims were whipped to the point that skin was ripped off the bone. Flogging is also a method that was used at schools against children, and while it resembled more of a spanking – the use of a whip or switch left children in tears and has rightfully been outlawed in most civilized countries.
Sadly, mutilation is a form of corporal punishment that still exists today. As mentioned earlier, under Shariah law, thieves may be punished by having their right hand amputated . The use of mutilation as a punishment was much more common in previous centuries. Like many other examples on our list, the social component was extremely important to the punishment as victims were forced to interact in society after being branded or such.
Examples of said public humiliation include James Gavin of Douglas, Lanarkshire, had his ears cut off for refusing to renounce his religious faith, and Nebahne Yohannes, an unsuccessful claimant to the Ethiopian imperial throne who had his ears and nose cut off, yet was then freed. It’s interesting to note that while previous generations understood our connection to one another, in terms of public perception and existence, yet were willing to do such horrid things to one another.
The most unsettling punishment on our list is drawing and quartering, also called dismemberment. In these cases, the victim is tied to four horses that all pull in different directions. Probably the most famous case of its administration ties in all the motifs of our previous punishments. The victim was Tupac Amaru , a rebel leader in Peru, who led indigenous Peruvians against the colonial Spanish.
Not only does Amaru’s death by drawing and quartering demonstrate the use of such punishments against a lower tier of society, but the Spanish also used his dismembered body parts as a method of terror, putting his head on display. And although corporal punishments are not used with such high frequency as in previous centuries, the fact that women in parts of the world still are victims to mutilation based on religious laws demonstrates how far we still have to go.
“Indian Maid in Saudi Arabia has hand cut off”
How is this a corporal punishment. This was a criminal act by an individual.
Also, under sharia law, amputation carries so many conditions that it is almost impossible to actually give the punishment. In Saudi Arabia, the theif is released or sent to jail 3 times. Only the 4
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