Sir I am a mathematics teacher but suffering fear in front of students for 10 years .i feel hopeless and fear only in front of students but remain time I behave normal. I have been taking vantab 75 twice a day ,0.25 mg clonazepam once daily about two month ago by a psychiatric but not any progress then please advice me what should I can do for overcome the problem.

Dr. Saul PereiraPsychologist48yrs exp

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It seems that you are scared to talk to students. The desire is there but the fear is crippling you. You need to meet with a counselor to deal with this fear and learn how to express the feeling as well as to reach out. Are you afraid that you may not speak well, or that your ideas are not that good, or that people will judge you, or that they will find out about how poor you are intellectually, etc. Do you have the fear of rejection. These are unnecessary dialogues you have and they are not true at all. When people are speaking, we are listening to information and how you present the same. You are very harsh on yourself and have decided, for some reason, that you are not good enough. You may have been reprimanded in childhood for speaking or your parents may have been too strict at home. These could intimidate you when you are to speak in front of people. All these matters must be taken up with the counselor. Start talking to people at home first, particularly children, and slowly grade up to older teens and then to adults, as you build confidence. If you prepare and rehearse the conversation you are likely to have, you will do very well when you actually do it. Now there is no guarantee that whatever you prepared is going to be the exact conversation but since you are prepared most of the conversation will go according to script and the rest will be easy to handle because they will be minor deviations from the main course. You could attend the toastmasters club, and go for conversational skills courses too. Good social practice will eventually see you through. Nothing will happen, if you are passive about this. For your information public speaking is the number one fear of all mankind. Yet, people speak and appear so confident: it is because they use the fear to advantage and prepare themselves well. So you are not alone.  

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Dr. Jagadeesan M.S.Psychiatrist15yrs exp

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There are two things that need to be done. First combine with cognitive behaviour therapy, second consult your psychiatrist and get the medications revised. These type of phobias need to have a combined approach to have good symptom control.  

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Ms. Naumita RishiPsychologist24yrs exp

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It seems you have social phobia. Only medicines will not help. Please consult a therapist and go for cognitive behaviour therapy to overcome social anxiety.  

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