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What reactions do YOU get?
Think this thread may be helpful in gauging peoples reactions
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- Coughs
- Move/turn head away
- Pass the gum/mint to everyone trick (like 222chick mentioned)
- Making jokes about not brushing your teeth
- Disgusted face gestures
Sometimes i can even see it in their eyes. I know they just want to help and give me tips. But honestly I know I got bb. So sometimes I'm almost like "Yes you can tell me directly what the problem is and yes I do brush my teeth, You don't have to believe me, cause it doesn't change much about my life".
The real ironic part is that my dentist found it unnecessary for me to visit him more than once per year. But yea if you aware you got bb, brushing your teeth is priority #1.
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I think this guy just wonders if he gets about the same reactions to tell if he has bb or not. The purpose of this thread was definately not to remind us of which reactions we have to deal with every day.
This forum, besides finding a cure, is like a support, because as long as we haven't found a cure yet, you're goin to have to live with bb and it ain't easy.
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For instance, I work mostly around women, really crazy women, who couldn't care less if you smell bad or not. They keep asking me to open up and speak more but the self-consciousness has been hard-wired so deeply that it's impossible. One even walked up to me out of the blue two days back, flashed me her tits, grabbed my face and asked what I thought of that. Talk about sexual harassment!
The customers (college kids) on the other hand stand at least 5 feet away when making an order. Some will even yawn or cough right before just to make a point. Others will turn their heads away or wipe their noses even though I'm sure it's impossible for them to smell me from that distance.
Here's the deal: we all suffer from the same condition but we won't all follow the same path to a cure. Focus more on how people react to you when you speak and be brutally honest with yourself when gauging these reactions. Halitophobia, in my estimation, occurs far less than people theorize.
I remember about 20 years ago, when my bb was not so bad and I could mostly mask it by chewing gum all the time, a guy with strong bb came into my office. It was the first time that I encountered room-filling bb. I remember feeling really dazed, as though he had slapped me through the face when he spoke to me. Being a very polite person, I didn't show anything, but I really felt shocked and rather violated. I guess that's the way people feel towards me now - all those people who don't show any reactions.
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The thing is, if you observe a person from a safe distance while they're next to someone else, they do all these things anyway, like rub their noses or sniff or cough and sneeze occasionally.
A lot of this is psychological though. I used to intentionally get right close to people and then imagine myself breathing into their nose or doing whatever that would normally allow them to catch my stench, and there would always be some kind of immediate reaction that would normally make me convinced they're suddenly able to smell my shit breath. Just by pretending to allow someone to smell my breath allowed my brain to play these kinds of tricks on me.