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MissMarsie19
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My fear of speaking in social situations... and how I made some progress in overcoming it.
Anxiety Support / by MissMarsie19
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 September 10th, 2017
...See more Hello there. Well, I am very afraid of public speaking as many of people do. But I am not only afraid of making presentations and even just answering on questions during the lectures. Very often I feel like I just can't produce any sound. For example, in my country if you need to get off the bus, you have to loudly ask for the stop, so that a driver (and, apparently, all the people inside) can hear you. And it has been very hard for me to do for the whole my life. Just thinking about me, standing up from my place and moving to the exit. Thinking about me, shouting "Next bus stop, please!" (since I speak very quiet, I usually need to repeat). So many times I'd missed my stop and just got off somewhere where somebody else needed to got off. And that's just one situation... There are more. Also I can't, hmm, speak and explain my thoughts if I finally asked for help, for example, from the teacher or shop assistant at the mall. It just I suddenly forgot all the words and sentence structure and end up irritating another person and just.. going away from him/her. Why? I don't know... And I also just can't make any photos outside. It makes me so much trouble especially when I was in Paris, but I have no photo-proof of me, being there..... But now I am on my Growth Path that helps me to become more socially confident. Yesterday at the opening of the new mall on my street, one famous public person, that I saw on the TV and were very interested about, came to this event and gave some master-class. During it, she gave autographs and made photos with people. I really wanted an autograph and a photo, too.. But I was so aware of doing this. But you know what? I did that!! Yeah, it took me to wait for the ending of the master-class but I did it! I even managed to ask a stranger to make a photo of me and that public person. How cool is that? I was so proud of myself. It may sound silly, but I really had a great experience. So I just wish everybody, who are struggling with the same things as I do, some strength, courage and desire (the desire is really important) to change your situation. I believe everyone (and so do I) can overcome our social anxiety problems and become truly happy with the life we have!
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