Social Anxiety Forums

C23 · Anonymous

Hi, I am just wondering if anybody has experienced Social Anxiety and how they have dealth with it. I am a college student, I do stutter and have for many years, and it seems I have developed a social phobia in the past 3 to 4 years. Probably because of my negative thinking to my stuttering problem. I am trying to accept it more to combat it all. I can go out into the public and go to class, but the thought of speaking makes me nervous, very uptight. I sweat profusely at times especially my hands and underarms. The other day in class we were in three groups, circled in the room, I wasn't even talking, but I felt like people were looking at me like the center of attention, and I started to sweat profusely throughout my body not helping the cause. I want to lead a normal life, but it seems my negative thinking and anxiety has brought up a problem. Has anybody dealth with this and how so? I am trying my best to just deal with it, and build confidence. Thanks for any input

newmomma · Anonymous

I use to get real nervous and sweat when meeting new people, it pretty much went away though, you just have to not think about it, which is hard than it sounds.

iPlume · Posted: Mon March 26, 2007 Post subject:

hi, i used to stutter a lot in high school, to an extreme that i have to have speech therpy. i dont know if its connected to my anxiety or not tough.