When i make eye contact with someone i feel like they are judging me. Or our souls are connecting. It makes me really uncomfortable. How do you feel about eye contact?
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Like a lot of behaviour it comes down to what you are accustomed to and what is comfortable to you. I look away most of the times due to habit.
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I feel so uncomfortable with eye contact. It makes me feel nervous. Ive never been good at it except with my one girlfriend. I loved looking in her eyes
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That was before sza though
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If it’s warranted I feel OK about it. Like when I’m dealing with customers at work or business or people I know. I try not to look too much at strangers.
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I struggle with eye contact too. Sometimes I feel as if the other person can read my mind
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I feel very much the same but mainly with my therapist. So I just don’t look at her. She doesn’t mind. It’s odd because I don’t feel this way with friends or family. I guess because I don’t want that sort of connection with her. It’s a professional relationship not like a relationship with friends or family. I also have trouble with looking into strangers/doctors/bosses’/authority figures eyes for the same reason.
I thought I was the only one to think this. Thanks for posting. Now I know I’m not alone in this.
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I look them in one eye so I dont feel overwhelmed, it work sometimes
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I’ve read that schizophrenics have trouble with eye contact. I can’t look at my therapist either. It’s so awkward. I too feel like they are reading my mind like the other person said.
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I don’t know, some girl I took a liking to at the psych hospital kept saying I was staring at her all the time.
Maybe unintentionally I was, not sure
I’ve been there
I don’t really have problems with eye contact, meaning it doesn’t really bother me when it happens. But I do tend to stare at people’s mouths as they speak, because of my auditory processing disorder. It’s hard for me to follow conversation. Watching their mouth, as they speak, helps a little bit.
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I rarely make eye contact. I prefer the written word as opposed to the spoken word. Interacting with people: I must deal with thought disorganization, alogia, a little word salad. Do pdocs see? Yep. If you lack making eye contact, that actually may alert a pdoc to wondering about constructs like Sz or Autism.
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I do over thenphone appointments with my pdoc. So its easier to look at him. I know the two appts i had in person i couldnt look at him. I hope he wasnt offended but its just really hard for me to look a stranger in the eye. Although that being said i always try to look cashiers in thebeye when i say thank you. I want them to feel like i genuinely care
In conversations I usually look at their lips as they talk
I also look at people’s lips when they talk— partly because eye contact is difficult at times, and partly because if I hear something extra I can look at their lips to see if they’ve said anything else.
I will say though, I’ve found that convos taking place while the participants are busy (like work, driving, etc.) aren’t always face-to-face, so the lip reading technique only gets one so far.
I’ve heard that looking at someone’s nose is helpful, as it’s closer to the eyes, so people think you’re maintaining eye contact even when you’re not.
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