Public Performance Anxieties?

[Plenum]

thanks Bluebell!  I didn't know there was a word for it,  but that is very relevant to my situation.

I had a laugh at one of the treatment options

With one option, desensitization, the patient is stared at for a prolonged period and then describes their feelings. The hope is that the individual will either be desensitized to being stared at or will discover the root of their scopophobia.

but hey, maybe I will find the root of the phobia via a memory that I buried.

"With scopophobia, it is likely that the person was subjected to public ridicule as a child."