decadeOfSA
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Ok, I have social anxiety and have had it for awhile. Xanax XR is helping me deal with it. I'm working on a Computer Science degree which requires a lot of math. I really have never liked math, but I have to take it and I am experiencing a lot of anxiety during tests. I can do the problems fast and right outside class, but when I get to a test, I get all tense and I get some mental block and just can't think as fast and remember how to do some problems. I'm fine taking tests in any other subject and get all A's in every other subject. I'm doing terrible in my math classes though. I had to start with College Algebra. I had to drop it the first time I took it, because I did so bad. Second time I got by with a C. Now I am in Trig and I did pretty well on the first test but bombed the last 2 tests and I may have to drop the class and take it again. I don't know if it's the pressure or what, but I need to get over this because I have to take a lot more math. Calc, Calc 2, and more... Because I am doing bad on the tests, the anxiety is becoming generalized to the whole class and just being in class makes me tense now. Being near my instructor makes my muscles stiffen up and I tremble too. I can't even reach and grab papers she hands me or take them from her with out just freezing up and trembling. When I have to hand in the test when I am done, it is really hard, because of this. The instructor is hot btw and I like her and I think she likes me, but she probably thinks I am weird now. I told her that for some reason I am having a lot of math anxiety and she didn't say much to help me out. It's really strange. Anyone else with a similar problem?