@BUGGGABOOM tricking your brain into thinking it's oke enough to where it just is. Something that's legitimately helped me is just gassing myself up over nothing. Self deprecating humor works against you in this.
@BUGGGABOOM Learning to accept other people liking you is a genuinely hard skill I'm still working on myself, but being able to makes you less stressed. It's not really something to be avoided because as you said, it is in vain. I don't really know how to learn other than exposure and