Highfort wrote:Transyl wrote:I can hardly even talk to my own mother without having problems speaking. It's just tough to deal with sometimes, and it frustrates me.
I find that mood control really helps. I went to several speech therapy sessions at the behest of my high school and was taught how to control how I felt to prevent the rising panic. The chokes are airway-constrictive and tend to happen when I rapid-fire my speech and don't pause to breathe and slow my heart rate. The blocks, however, are neurological and no matter how calm I am or how much I modulate my air flow I still get really bad blocks when I talk to people, even close friends.
The same thing happens to me whenever I try to talk to anyone, no matter how close they are to me. I choke on my own words, my heart pounds and races, and I just feel like I'm going to pass out. As for talking in front of multiple people, don't even get me started on that because I can't do that at all.