anxiety (disorder)?
For some time now, I've had this problem: whenever I'm in a class (online and offline), for example, I get extreme palpitations when I'm talking or just before someone is asked to speak. It's extremely annoying because my voice trembles and I can't get anything out. But strangely, when I'm called on spontaneously and wasn't expecting it, I have no anxiety symptoms, or almost none. Why is this? Would group therapy help, or should I simply speak more often in social situations? Could it be a health issue, and do any of you have experience with a solution? Many thanks in advance.
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This could be a symptom of social anxiety disorder, but whether it is really pronounced enough for the diagnosis, a therapist would have to determine.
In general, certain social fears are also normal and many people know that. You’re not the only one who gets nervous when he has to say something. That fear only comes when you have time to think is clear. Fear always comes out of thought and you have to be able to do it first, which is not possible with spontaneous confrontation.
Keep watching and if you say it puts your life too heavy, get help with an outpatient therapist.
but what should the therapeutic do? it is only in a certain situation.
That depends on what you want to do.
Therapy is help for self-help. It means first and foremost what steps you take yourself.
In a therapy you reflect your feelings and thoughts very deeply and analytically. You will learn how your fears arise, what mechanisms are behind them. Furthermore, in the case of fears, one often makes confrontations, but you determine it yourself. You’re not being forced or pushed. Generally, if you are willing to do so, you are planning confrontations, preparing them well and giving you strategies to deal with them. And after that one reflects how it went and draws further conclusions for the future. That’s what you do until you get better.
Only one skilled person can really diagnose this. So you only get an answer from the therapist.
You just have to make a decision for yourself if you feel that you can handle it yourself, or if it limits you so much that something has to happen. The diagnosis itself is not important in the end.
yes, confrontation is the only logical in my perception. also have to make in future often and consciously go where many people are. but are only extreme nervousness when talking and reading etc. alone already a social phobia if you have no problems in public life otherwise in normal life?