Posted by Adam on November 13, 2001, at 20:58:03
In reply to Talking(in front of people), posted by tensor on November 12, 2001, at 17:15:41
Tensor,
I hope this isn't an insensitive time to ask, but I couldn't help noticing your name...Are you a physicist? Do you study General Relativity?
We actually have a club that gets together at work to do presentations for the sole purpose of being a better public speaker. One of the big reasons people do it is to get over performance anxiety. I think this is a pretty common thing. My step-mother, who is as cool as they come most of the time, actually takes Xanax to deal with her public-speaking phobias. I told her to join a journal-club style thing like we have a work, but she just shuddered.
All the same, exposure can be a powerful form of therapy.
> Hi,
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> Does anyone have problems with talking in front of people and talking person to person? I'm not talking about the common fear that nearly everybody possess. I have Panic disorder and get treatment for that, Buspar 20mg/day and it helps my anxiety/PD pretty well but the talking problem remains unsolved. This problem arised concurrently with the PD. This is a big problem for me since i'm studying, and to do a presentation is impossible since I completely panic. I have diazepam prescribed for me, but even diazepam falls short when it comes to presentation.
> This problem is, for me, a bit strange since i'm a rather social person. I don't know what to do, does anyone recognize this?
> I would really appreciate someone to share experiences with...
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