Does anyone get nervous attending your kids baseball and soccor games? I have anxiety but completed the 15 chapter attacking anxiety program. Im 80% recovered. I can handle any social event. But when it becomes repetative such as attending 14 little league games that last 2-3 hours. I get really anxious. I think it's mainly the not having a purpose sitting there sets me off. Whay do you think. Anybody !

Hi chow chow! Not sure if you're still praticipating on the site, but I too suffer from social anxiety. Whatever form, it seems that I just don't want anyone to get to close, for fear of being judged. Hang in there, I'm looking for support myself. I've just started the program and have trouble leaving the house all together.

Good luck!

Hi raquino, I know exactly what you are going through it doesn't matter what situation, grocery store, neighbors house visting, working, anytime I have to speak in front of others. I get all worked up thinking they are judging me, my face always turns red and I make some lame excuse to leave. I just started the program too. I am really hoping this will work.

Hello Michelema,
I have been reviewing the program for a couple of weeks now. I got the program because I am so tired of my social anxiety and being afraid to speak in front of people. I get nervous and it's hard to talk because I'm losing my breath. I hate that. It is so embarassing, because then everyone knows you are nervous. It makes me feel so inadequate. I can't think and I feel very ashamed and then I get depressed think about what happened. I "anxietize" for days thinking about upcoming events where I might have to speak. I feel I should be so much further in life if only I had not been so afraid of people and new experiences.
Hope you all do well. I am not sure that I will even be able to keep the program because of other bills. I have to be a decision very quickly though, my time is running out.

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Originally posted by michelema:
Hi raquino, I know exactly what you are going through it doesn't matter what situation, grocery store, neighbors house visting, working, anytime I have to speak in front of others. I get all worked up thinking they are judging me, my face always turns red and I make some lame excuse to leave. I just started the program too. I am really hoping this will work.

Hi chow chow!
My biggest problem right now is when something happens that is new to me.
I've done the program and I feel like you that I'm 80% recovered but some things I still have to work hard on. If everything is as usual everything is fine but if I have to do something och meet someone I'm not use to I get nervous. I talk to myself and I don't get as bad as I used to, faint or getting short of breath, but I do get diarea still.
I usually take an Imodium when that happens just to be able to get on with my day. It's very frustrating when you feel fine but not able to do everything because your stomach still gets nervous.
But this will get better!! I won't get back to where I was, that is not an option. I know that I create this and I'm the one that can make myself better.
So we just have to hang in there and keep working and we will get 100% recovered.
/Didde

Hi all,

It's a relief (although sad at the same time) to hear others with the same symptoms as myself. I am a constant "thinker" and get completely freaked out when I have to speak in front of others. I especially hate standing up and talking, even if I'm just popping in to speak with a co-worker or my employer, because I have this fear that I'll get dizzy and pass out. Does anyone else have this? I have taken Zoloft for the past year and this has helped my anxiety a lot. Before I had a hard time going to grocery stores, movie theaters, riding in cars, basically anywhere in public. Now I'm confident and happy 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time I worry about having to give a speech or speaking up in school. I've always been a major perfectionist when it comes to school, so I guess that's why I'm so nervous there. I'm also nervous to start my career as an attorney because of my fear to stand up and speak in front of a jury or judge. I'm hoping this program helps me conquer these fears. It seems like I've been battling this phobia my entire life.