Hello, I care a lot about the way I look in public. Do you ever get caught up in these types of thoughts?
Yes, but I was way more self-consciousness in the adolescent stages of my life. That's when it tends to be the worst for people.
I agree, I noticed that my experiences with self consciousness have improved with age as well. I am also paranoid at times, so for me the two feelings may relate a bit.
Yes, self-consciousness is sometimes associated with shyness, or paranoia. That analogy is spot on.
Okay that's good to know that I'm making sense. I was also more shy when i was young but still have some of those tendencies. I suppose it's part of my personality.
Me too, those tenancies can be annoying because  they can impair your ability to perform complex actions.
I agree, for me I think the impairment stems from the distraction that those tendencies cause.
Yes, you even become more aware and distracted by the most smallest actions.
I think that what helps me the most in dealing with this is remembering that other people have full lives and tons of stuff to be worried about. In this case, they are much less likely to worry about me so I should not fret.
Self-consciousness
Self-consciousness is a heightened sense of self-awareness. It is a preoccupation with oneself, as opposed to the philosophical state of self-awareness, which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being, though the two terms are commonly used interchangeably or synonymously. An unpleasant feeling of self-consciousness may occur when one realizes that one is being watched or observed, the feeling that "everyone is looking" at oneself. Some people are habitually more self-conscious than others. Unpleasant
on the record, that's ridiculous. What happens is you got a lot of people taking subliminal shots, but nobody ever says my name. I'm not for sure, so that record is like my way of taking subliminal shots right back. Don't get it misquoted, don't get it messed up. That's basically what it is man. It's like, you know, like I said I do devote a lot of information about myself on there. I started to wreck it up by saying I