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**Russell Norris spent decades hiding behind closed doors, in toilet cubicles and at the bottom of a bottle. This is a frank, wry memoir of social anxiety, blushing and the long road to being seen.** Norris is outside a meeting room again, listening for voices. The people inside are colleagues...

If you want to know how to live with chronic blushing–and social anxiety–listen on. As an adolescent, Russell’s face and neck would turn crimson at the slightest thing. In his twenties, he began suffering from extreme blushing: idiopathic craniofacial erythema. It sent out all the wrong signals—to friends, family and the opposite sex. And it triggered something worse: Social Anxiety Disorder. Up to one in 10 people develop this irrational fear of other human beings. From university to work, Russell desperately tried to hide his secret from everyone.