Personal Reflection On Anxiety

Personal Reflection

Unfortunately, during the beginning of my groups presentation, the anxiety I have had for what seems like my whole life, got the best and worst of me. I failed to finish the presentation with my group, I left the classroom lost for words, embarrassed, upset and in a panic attack basically. I'm glad that my group managed to continue on without me swiftly. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for them to improvise without me when I suddenly left. Throughout the whole day I was a little nervous but progressively through the day that feeling got worse, I had hoped my anxiety would go away once i got up to present but it hit me like a brick wall with the ending feeling of having to run away. Thankfully over the past few weeks being at this new school I have developed new friendships with people that are caring and thoughtful enough to have checked up on me and see that I needed some supportful words of wisdom. Truthfully, It was difficult to sit through a couple of the presentations today, I knew each case study was going to be a sensitive subject in different ways but I did not read every single one of them. I did brace myself for the worst thinking I could handle it but apparently I am not as strong as I thought I was yet.

Friday we had almost the whole paper done to hand in about our case study, the handout was done as well and revised for a final print off for Monday; the power point was completed and adjusted for additional information. I wrote out what we were to present to the class individually but yet as a group, what i did was write up a summarized version of the paper Loriann had created to hand in. I was not sure what to do. It has been a very long time since I have done a group presentation let alone any kind of