My Experience With Anxiety-Personal Narrative

My informative speech was over the television series Grey's Anatomy. To prepare for my speech, I spent more time rehearsing than I did for my S.H.I.E.L.D. Speech. I am not sure how I feel about how my Informative Speech went. I felt very prepared for the speech, and I knew a lot about what I was talking about. I was confident in the information I had found. Although this is all true, when I was up in front of the audience, I was nervous. Really nervous. My hands were shaking the whole speech, and my voice felt shaky and unconfident. I do not get it, I do not know how I could feel as confident as I did before the speech and end up feeling like that while presenting.

My preparation for my speech was simple. First, I used the method of cognitive restructuring, which “transforms negative self-talk into positive self-talk (Schwartzman, 2014, pg. 37). I used positive self-talk and a positive self-concept of myself to help boost my confidence for giving my speech. I also used systematic desensitization to reduce communication apprehension, which describes the feeling of anxiety about oral communication with others, according to Schwartzman (2014), to harness my nervousness and anxiety about presenting the speech in front of an audience (pg. 35). In addition to this, I rehearsed my introductory speech several times to make sure I was ready to present in front of my class and used the concept of visualization

Today I gave my informative speech and I think it went pretty well. To prepare for my speech I did numerous things. The first thing I did was I started researching the history of Alton. After I had researched I decided on what I wanted my points to be over bases off what I found out. After that I began to write my speech. I changed things and re wrote things a few times because my first version didn't make a ton sense. When I was up in front of the audience I felt nervous. I wasn’t as prepared as I wanted to be. I wasn’t expecting to go today. There were six people in front of me and when four of them were gone or not ready to go I panicked a little bit. When I was done giving the speech I was glad it was done, but I wish I had done better.

Of course I was the first to be called up to give my introduction speech! Perhaps because my professor knew me so well? Who knows… but I was actually glad that I was chosen first because I get to set the bar without having to worry about competing with the previous speeches. So with that positive mindset, my anxiety levels were really low. On a scale from one to ten I’d say I was a solid two! As soon as I was about to speak I observed my audience, their faces, movements, and eyes. All the attention was on me and I got right into my zone.

Just to warn you I cannot write (as you can probably tell) but these "creative rants" are just how I express myself and get my feelings out.

To prepare for my shield speech I had my dad help me by painting my shield. However, for the actual speech I made my outline and then made my note cards. One thing I did was practice going over my cards a couple of times for my dog the night before my speech was due. The next time I practiced my speech was the period before I gave it during study hall. When I was in front of the class before I gave my speech I was very nervous, and could feel my face starting to get red and my hands were starting to get shaky. I knew that I was going to get super nervous in front of the class because that's how I always get for speeches. According to knowing that I would be nervous, while I was giving my speech, I could feel myself starting to sweat and get

Everyone gets nervous every once in a while. Whether they have to present in front of a certain amount of people, or going out with someone you just met. I, on the other hand, get nervous over the smallest of daily tasks. I was in denial that I was nervous about such tasks until I had been diagnosed with anxiety about a year ago.

During my academic journey, public speaking has always been an extreme fear. When I enrolled at Thomas Nelson Community College, the first question that I asked was do I have to take Public Speaking. My experience with talking in front of people resulted in hot pepper colored face, blacking out, dizziness, or nausea. In Spring of 2016, I went ahead and enrolled in Professor Fotinos’s class just to get it over with. As class day one approached, fear and anxiety started to rise. When the first speech day came, I volunteered to go with the first group so that I was done and the anxiety wasn’t building up. As I was doing my speech, I thought of what Professor Fotinos told the class to do and calmed down. The more speeches that I did, presenting

When I got up in front of the audience, I became really nervous even though I was well-prepared. I could feel my hands shaking and my heart beating. In the middle of my speech, I got a sudden sense of dread that something was wrong. I thought that maybe I had forgotten something

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About eight percent of teenagers—ages thirteen to eighteen—suffer from an anxiety disorder, and while I do not experience anxiety often enough for it to be considered a disorder, I do suffer from it. Some of my life’s important moments have been ruled by anxiety. When I was a young child, I was always talking to everyone I could and singing and dancing everywhere possible; I was not a shy child, but as I got older, my mindset changed and I started to experience stage fright, and test anxiety; I even started having problems talking to people. Anxiety now affects and and all of my auditions, makes testing difficult, and has kept me from making new friends.

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I have always absolutely hated public speaking for as long as I can remember. To my dismay, I was obligated last year by team tradition to deliver speeches about a few graduating seniors at the Cross Country banquet. My initial reaction was that I was going to write as short of a speech as possible and get it over with quickly. While the temptation was extremely strong, I decided that I was going to suck it up and give my seniors a proper send off. Many weeks and many drafts later I kept rehearsing my speeches in the mirror until I got it right. The banquet itself was by far one of the most stressful events I’ve ever attended. When I gave my speech, it finally felt good for the first time speaking in such a large crowd, something that I never

Excited- very enthusiastic and eager. This is how I felt on the morning of October 23rd, 2015. We didn’t have but two classes together so I couldn’t be nervous or I wouldn’t be able to ask. I just had to be a man and get over my anxiety. We had English and study hall together and that is when I knew I had to take action. I could feel my heart pounding out of my chest with anxiety.

When I was younger I loved school more than anything, the only thing I was worried about was understanding fractions. I had nothing to worry about except disappointing my parents, my sister was a straight a student her whole life and my parents always held me up to that standard they did not mean to it’s just i knew i was smart and they knew but i couldn’t put in the effort. I did not know what it was called when i was younger but i had anxiety I still have it. Whenever i would talk or think about school i would have some version of an anxiety attack because as I got older it became the most stressful thing in my life. Then during my sophomore year a friend told me about IB they said it would make me a better student. I listened to them and