Rosacea and Chronic Blushing - Bar and Kuypers

They commented that the rosacea patients they studied experience:

• feeling of diminished self worth;
• central and autonomic responses to social anxiety which includes facial flushing.

Bar and Kupers felt that this automatic flushing and blushing in turn creates its own embarassment and anxiety, leading to even greater social inhibition.

Some rosacea patients described certain social situations as "dangerous" or "risky" on account of their unpredictable facial coloring.