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If you pour thousands of dollars into an institution and say a presentation is riding on your grade, shouldn’t social anxiety (with a doctors note) be an excuse to somehow get out of it? I am physically limited when it comes to speaking in public, my mind blanks and I instantly have to escape. I really don’t want to take medication but I’ll try anything…
Its actually 16% who suffer from this social phobia. I’m not talking about nervousness whatsoever

I am asked to host an event of close to 400 hundred people. My worry is I never did emceeing before. The even is an oath taking ceremony of Parent Teachers Association in the school where where my kids are currently enrolled at. Please give me advise /comment / tips on how to overcome my fear. The occasion will be on Aug 27.
* I mean the event*

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I’m taking a public speaking class which I just hate but I have to for my major and when I practice my speech at home I’m so confident and then when I get to class and I get up in front of everyone I just freeze..and get really shaky. What can I do to manage my stress? Thanks!

Since about a year ago ive been getting really nervous when i speak in front of the class, so bad that about 30 seconds in to my presentation my voice is so shaky you cant understand anything im saying…even if you could understand what i was saying, i can only say about 2 words before i run out of breath. Its been so bad lately i leave class if we have to even read a sentence in front of the class and i know if i tried to stay i would be physically sick. Now for the past month all i can think about is having to speak in front of the class( It’s sunday night and im so anxious to go to school tomorrow and not cause i have a presentation, but just because im scarred a teacher might assign a presentation or might call on me in class, and it is like this every school night). This anxiety is taking over my life i need help fast. I am also way to afraid to tell my parents, its just not an option.

I am in college and will have to give oral presentations. I am extremely nervous. I have did public speaking in class before and was a total wreck. My voice begins to shrill, I shake a little, my underarms begin to itch and my face heats up. Because I try to get through it fast I have often skipped many of my major points because I just want to hurry up and finish and sit down. These presentations are mandatory and nothing I’ve tried in the past worked such as picturing everyone naked, practing it beforehand, and taking deep breathes. Anyone have other suggestions.

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everytime that i know i hav to do some big presentation, my heart starts racing, my breath gets shorter, and i sometimes start shaking and talking really fast. and when i say “public speaking” i dont mean giving a speech in front of hundreds– more like less than 20, my classmates, teacher. even if there r only 5 ppl in a class and i m fairly prepared for the assignment, as i actually talk in front of ppl, i exhibit the above symptoms and even the stupidest of all ppl sense my nervousness. this results in
–ppl thinking i cant talk at all
–me getting a lower grade on the presentation
–the teacher thinking i m a strong student, but too shy

is there somethng wrong w/ me?

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I never had any trouble with public speaking growing up. In fact, I did a lot of it during college and some after school. I was going for a Graduate degree, as I am ambitious, and less than a year ago, I volunteered to read out loud thinking nothing of it when it happened. My heart started pounding, my throat was constricted, and a few sentences in, I couldn’t read anymore. Ever since, I have been anxious to give presentations in meetings at work, read out loud at church, etc. I am scared to death and have difficulty saying more than a sentence or two. Even going around the room and saying your name, etc bothers me. I saw a psychiatrist who said I had a panic attack for whatever reason, and now some social settings where I have to “perform” scare me. He recommended a nerve pill called Clonazepam and a anti-depressant (even though I am not depressed) called Lexapro to get me comfortable in those settings again until my mind can accept that there is nothing to be afraid of.

Has anyone heard of having a panic attack randomly in a public setting and then being afraid of that setting when nothing like that had ever happened before (I was 26 at the time)? Any opinions on Clonazepam or Lexapro calming me down so I can speak at meetings for work and get back to my normal self? Any advice is greatly appreciated!